City worker caught using onion scam to shoplift

Nicholas Long, a 25-year-old city recruiter, and former national hockey player, from Chatham in Kent, has admitted using a 'loose onion scam' in order to steal £450 of groceries from Sainsbury's in central London.

So how did his scam work, how was he caught, and how bad a problem is shoplifting?
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