I work retail in the US. It’s not just some meaningless “policy”; it’s drilled into us that we shouldn’t obstruct a suspected shoplifter, confront them, or even politely ask if they have a receipt. People who try to intervene are putting themselves and others at a bigger risk than they realize. What she did was a MAJOR no-no.

Companies have decided that the loss of profits from shoplifting are negligible compared to the risk of a lawsuit or worker’s comp due to an injury. Plus, for all I know, the shoplifter has a weapon and/or untreated mental disorders. I am neither qualified nor paid to deal with that.

No it's not. What kind of hokey, pie-eyed, olde tyme colonial school child view of capitalism are you desperately holding onto? The customer gets charged the maximum they will pay, regardless of any other circumstance.

You and I are going to get charged a certain amount regardless. Theft comes from their bottom line. If you don't steal, you're only giving more money to the rich.

sorry, but why should anyone care what you think when you use the word "retarded"?

Look up: Meijer, Inc. v. Franklin County Court of Common Pleas.

In this case, a security guard went ham on some poor fucker, body slammed him and made him a quadriplegic.

Dude won 12m dollars from meijer.

He had brought in some batteries to see if meijer carried the same type. When he put the batteries back in his pocket and walked out the door, he got made a quadriplegic because of some dumb fucking security guard.

OVER SOME FUCKING BATTERIES

This was a landmark case that completely rewrote the way security guards handle shoplifters at almost every retail store in the country.

Somehow, shockingly, again, in 2017, the same thing happened at another mile, which I found searching for this case.

Apparently, Meijer can't learn a fucking lesson.