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Frustrated store-owners in Harare are taking concrete measures against shoplifters who tuck stolen goods between their thighs: constructing 'humps' at store exits to force the thieves to drop their loot. Shoplifting is a growing problem in Zimbabwe, where workers are struggling to survive high prices following the abolition of the local dollar in 2009. Thieves are moving in organised gangs of up to 10, reports the Herald daily: many of them are women wearing long skirts. They take advantage of crowded supermarket aisles to slip goods under their skirts, squeezing it between their legs. The humps -- sometimes no more than simple steps -- are being installed at entrance and exit points to stop women "engaging in the between-the-thighs form of pilfering," says the Herald. "The assumption is that there is no way a person can go over [the hump], lifting one leg and then the other, without letting go of the loot under the skirt."