This Friday November 23rd, take 30% off the entire store at Guess Canada. Some restrictions apply. Click here to browse Guess online.

The Body Shop will have a new deal every day this week to celebrate their big Black Friday deal on Friday.  All deals are valid in-store and online.

Today’s deal is 50% off fragrance and home fragrance, including their just-arrived Cranberry Home Fragrance Room Spray and Burning Oil.

In addition, online you can get hand creams at 50% off and buy 2 get 1 free on most other items.

From November 23rd until November 26th, Crabtree & Evelyn Canada will have a sale on their Moisturizing Hand Sanitizer. Regularly retailing for $14.99, the 250ml will be on sale for $4.99. The 50ml bottles, with a retail value of $6 each, will be 3 for $6.

This Friday, November 23rd, save 30% on all regular priced merchandise at Suzy Shier Canada. Offer cannot be used in conjunction with any other promotional offer or on previously purchased merchandise, gift cards or Prestige cards. Other restrictions may apply. Click here to browse Suzyshier.com

Yankee Candle Canada will be open at 7am Friday, November 23rd. Sale items will include the following:

• Stock up on holiday favourites Christmas Cookie, Balsam & Cedar and Sparkling Cinnamon at Buy One Get One 50% off!
• Check some gifts off your list with 25% off accessories.
• Be sure to reward yourself to one of our Fragrance Lovers Totes. These totes come packed with over $100 worth of product. Take one home for just $25 when you spend $50 in store, but hurry supplies are limited! We will be opening at 7am so you can beat the rush

On November 23rd, Petsmart will be opening at 7a.m. with many deals of up to 50% off.  You need a PetPerks card to take advantage of these Black Friday offers but it is free to get and you can sign up in store in minutes.

Notable deals are:

• Iams Pet Foods at 50% Off
• Whisker City Platform Play Tower $64.99 (my cats will be so happy when I drag that home from work on Friday)
• Innova, Eukanuba and Halo Pet Foods 50% Off
• Dog Beds 50% Off

View the full list of deals here in our Black Friday 2012 deals forum.

Monday November 26th, & Tuesday November 27th, save 30% on your bill at Milestones Grill & Bar. Offer is valid and food purchases only and excludes alcohol and taxes. Click here to print your coupon, or show it on a smartphone. Valid at participating locations, Dine-in only.

This promo is exclusive to Mark’s store at Eaton Centre and possibly a select few others across Toronto. This is not a Canada-wide sale.

Save an additional 20% off the entire store.

From Thursday, November 22 to Sunday, November 25 from 8:00am to close you will receive 40% off your entire purchase at American Eagle Outfitters in their Black Friday weekend promotion.

Quick! Click here to get your coupon for a free box of Kellogg’s Rice Krispies! Coupon is valid December 18th only.

RW&Co’s Black Friday 2012 promotion includes many items on sale and buy one get one half price in-store.  Red dot items are excluded from the BOGO promotion which runs from November 23-26.

Danier Leather Canada’s Black Friday sale is underway and ends November 25th. Click here to view their eight page catalogue of Black Friday deals on leather jackets, bags, and accessories for men and women.

Now through November 25, well.ca are offering 25% off on Scott, Glade, Ziploc, Windex, Raid, Pledge, Shout, Fantastik, Off, Scrubbing Bubbles & Toilet Duck pruducts this week.  Plus, when you spend $25 or more on these products, you can get a free Scrubbing Bubbles Toilet Bowl Cleaner by entering FREESCRUB in the coupon box at checkout.

They offer free shipping over $25 and accept paypal payments.

Visit Chapters-Indigo online between noon and 2 p.m. today and tomorrow to take advantage of their lunchtime flash sales.

They are also offering 20% off all items in their “Gifts For Him” category.

Shoplifting is nothing new.  It has been around since humans started offering goods for some kind of compensation.  Although the “young kid pocketing a CD” is the stereotype of your typical shoplifter, this is far from the truth.  Shoplifters come in all shapes and sizes.  Sometimes they are even the people behind the counter.

Yes, it appears the latest trend in shoplifting is employees stealing from their own workplace.  In fact, it is such a problem that many retailers are scaling back their efforts to catch consumer shoplifters and instead have turned the security cameras towards their own staff.  According to PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and Retail Council of Canada, employee theft grew to 33% of theft-related incidents from 19% in 2008 and consumer theft dropped to 43% of reported incidents from 65% in 2008.  Apparently the must-have items are alcohol, fragrances, women’s apparel and cosmetics.  Unfortunately, the reasons behind this increase are largely unfounded.  Perhaps employees have a dwindling loyalty to their workplace?  Or maybe times are tougher than in previous years?  Whatever the reason, there has been a change in the stereotype of your “typical shoplifter”.

Bottom line is: shoplifting hurts all of us.  The retailers take a hit and in turn raise their prices to compensate for the loss.  At the end of the day, it is the hard-working Joe Average who pays the price for another person’s crime.  It is almost maddening to think the prices and deals we eagerly seek each week could be even lower if people did not steal.

Do you report shoplifting?  Do you have any shoplifting stories you would like to share?  Let us know! 

Click here for more information on employee shoplifting.