 Life is good all this month at Appalachian Wireless. Get the LG G5 for just one penny with signup or renewal of a two-year service agreement. That's almost $100 off the regular price. Better service, bigger savings. That's today's Appalachian Wireless. Pikeville's busy retail developments have long been targets for shoplifters, both amateur and professional. Now the Pikeville Police Department is hoping the retailers in the area will fight back by way of networking. The Police Department is planning an organizational meeting to form a network of retailers and law enforcement to share information about shoplifting activities, shoplifters and shoplifting trends. The focus, according to Chief Chris Edmonds, is information gathering and sharing. We're trying to combat that in a way to where we get the information shared out to every business. Every business can see the same email we're seeing, see the photos of the people who are committing these crimes. That way they don't know if they've got them inside their store what they may be doing. Several retailers have already expressed interest in joining the network, which will be email-based. The Pikeville Police Department wants as many retailers as are willing to join up. Watching how these trends lay out, one week it may be ax deodorant, the next week it may be tide or game pods that they're seeking. It could be razors. So these are trends and they're happening here now. So that's the reason we're trying to encourage all these business owners and managers to come up to our meeting, look at what we're going to lay on the table for them about this email and the information sharing and let them know, you know, although your corporate's not wanting you to stop people, maybe we can stop them down the road at another place and get it to end. The organizational meeting will be held Friday at 9 a.m. at Pikeville City Hall. Retailers large and small are asked to attend the meeting but are not obligated to join the network. We want all our businesses to try to get involved in this that way. Maybe we can cut their loss rate down from more than what we do just by our patrol. In Pikeville, Chris Anderson, EKB News.