With Christmas around the corner, shoppers are out in force, but so are shoplifters.
Stores are seeing an increase in theft and dealing with a surge in violence towards staff. Some chains are deploying facial recognition technology to catch repeat offenders.
Facewatch is facing a growing backlash from civil liberty campaigners but retailers argue they have no choice.
Sky correspondent Gurpreet Narwan went to test it out and investigate what this all means for our privacy.
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