Do you know how much it cost a store to prosecute a shoplifter? A lot. Whatever they attempt to steal is already a total loss. Then the employee or employees who try to stop them are not doing their job while trying to stop the shoplifter so that productivity loss. Then spend time cleaning up the mess that was made. Then the employee who witnessed them steal has to be in court all day when their trial comes up. The store has to pay the employee an entire days wage for the employee to do that.I’m a security Gaurd and I can tell you letting her go with the stock is not saving money is it ? Explain? If they let her just walk away with stock the store looses the stock and because she found it easy to steal unchallenged she will return likely with friends. So why would it be good idea to let her go please explain?
Stopping that theft cost about $400-500 when they could have let them go and it only cost the company $20-$30.
The best way is prevention or to stop them in the act. Once they make it to the door, especially if they want to fight you for it, it cost too much to recover it or risk it. This is for grocery stores tho.
The reason the stores on the news allow it is because they want to close up most of their stores and sell online because online sales are growing while in-store is declining. But these retail stores have 10-20 year leases and the only way to get out of them is if the area becomes too dangerous or has too many shoplifters.