Anything that goes missing more than normal gets put in the security cage. They call it "inventory shrinkage" and they can track it precisely these days. Shoplifters steal anything they can resell, it's not because they need clean teeth. If it makes you feel any better, the biggest source of shrinkage is employee theft, not shoppers.
The real problem was locking things up and then nobody has the key or knows who has the key. If you wanted to make a stink you could escalate it up to corporate and someone would get chewed out for it.
Anything that goes missing more than normal gets put in the security cage. They call it "inventory shrinkage" and they can track it precisely these days. Shoplifters steal anything they can resell, it's not because they need clean teeth. If it makes you feel any better, the biggest source of shrinkage is employee theft, not shoppers.
The real problem was locking things up and then nobody has the key or knows who has the key. If you wanted to make a stink you could escalate it up to corporate and someone would get chewed out for it.
You have a point except I would reserve this phrasing for the fact that capitalism's wealth inequality makes shoplifting make sense.