Nobody at Advance Auto Parts hired anyone to run a police lineup. But that is essentially what happened in Gastonia, North Carolina, and the company is now being asked to answer for it in federal court, to the tune of $15 million.
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This isn’t really a story about identity theft. It’s a story about how retail loss prevention has quietly expanded into territory that used to belong to trained detectives, and how little accountability exists when that expansion goes wrong…