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According to reports, organised criminal groups are believed to be behind a large portion of the thefts, stealing goods 'to order' and reselling them to local shops.

Bakery helped by new products including iced tea and pizza boxes after raising prices earlier this year

The bakery chain has launched the new format in a small number of stores across the UK

Its shop in Whitechapel, east London, is among those where it has launched the initiative.

Greggs’ Whitechapel store is one of several in London where snacks are being moved behind the counter

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The 47-year-old man had conned a city council out of £710,000 by pretending to work for all of its 32 Greggs branches

Aftab Baig, 47, from Glasgow, was part of a fraud which saw bogus claims made against the Leeds branches of the bakery chain.

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