Family-owned liquor store raided by teens 3 times in 10 days

An Auckland wine shop has been hit by thefts three times in 10 days as the family-owned business suffers $250,000 in losses from ram raids and burglaries.

Glengarry Wines general manager Liz Wheadon walked Breakfast's Anna Burns-Francis through the damage caused by another burglary at another one of the chain's stores.

The manager said she believed the people who stole wine from the shop in the early hours of the morning were minors and deliberately hit the same store multiple times.

She manages the family-owned chain of 14 shops in Auckland and estimates around $250,000 of losses have happened as a result of recent raids.

"We've spent huge amounts of money on security and prevention," Wheadon said.

"The store's got bollards. We've got security cameras. We've got fully-functioning alarms that sound.

"Everything that we've been advised to do, we've put them in place. It still happens."

Wheadon said she believed the alcohol was being stolen in order to on-sell to others. She said changes needed to be made in order to make her employees feel safe at work.

"We're a family-owned business within retailing and Auckland since the early 40s.

"We want to continue doing that … and to do that, we need to see the change that sees our staff being able to come to work and feel safe."

Figures released yesterday showed an uptick in the number of charges laid against young people last year as compared to the year before.

Meanwhile, new Police Minister Ginny Andersen said retail crime, alongside repeat offending, were her two top priorities entering the job for the first time.