Well, that just sucks. Seems we need more effort in two different ways. Front-end, more work on poverty and education - proactively - back-end increased/stronger efforts in loss prevention and law enforcement.

    I now need to run to the store to get more salt. Seems I used it all up while reading that article.

    When I was about 19, a friend of my girlfriend got caught stealing sunglasses from the Wal-Mart. They detained her for a good long while, and had a female security officer do a full body cavity search on her. Obviously to humiliate and scare her. I think it worked.

    Today, I don't know if they do anything, let alone something like that.

    They pretty much do nothing about shoplifting. I've asked at every store I go to and they all say the same thing. We are not allowed to confront them or even follow them out to get a license number.

    Make no mistake. Target isn’t closing stores because of a kid sneaking out with a pair of sunglasses.

    They’re closing stores because organized groups of criminals are being allowed to walk in, in broad daylight, and steal whatever they want without being arrested and held accountable.

    These thugs are drains on society.

      And Target has a great security division. I was in a group of law enforcement people who had a tour of their facility
      in the northern Twin Cities of Minnesota. It was pretty impressive. Among other things, they have a room where
      monitors that show almost any isle in any target store. One of the things I remember is if you are in a target isle and
      stop for too long in front of any item, the system locks onto you and your image pops up on a Twin Cities center
      monitor and you are watched to see if you are going to steal the item. If it looks like you do, the center contacts security
      in that store and you are stopped and questioned, etc.

        Par4QC only reason they have people checking you receipt is because they have gone to almost full self check out. They shouldn't get too pissed if I miss an item due to lack of training....😂🤣

            Walterjn They shouldn't get too pissed if I miss an item due to lack of training..

            Almost word for word what I told my wife when we were forced to self checkout the first time. Now we almost
            never go to Wal-Mart anymore.

                mulegolf unless I'm in a super big hurry and there is no line at self check. I will ALWAYS wait for an actual checker. I know most of the ones I deal with and enjoy catching up with them.

                  PA-PLAYA

                  It's not that it's legal; its that the criminal justice and legal system have their marching orders for other groups to triage and selectively prosecute and incarcerate, given that we have very finite resources in terms of court system, time , personnel and spaces in prisons. The latter of course, since they're full of non-violent drug and related offenders costing the taxpayers billions a year and lining the pockets of the CEOs of the for profit prisons.

                  Also, not to apologize for the despicable acts on any level, but if people wouldn't buy fenced/hot goods, these things would not happen. It's odd that upthread the entirety of the blame is on the thieves, not a single call out of the people taking advantage of the theft and too gutless to rob the store outright themselves. Honestly ,they're more guilty IMO.

                    If only these automakers would just stop making cars that are so damned easy to steal! It's their fault, I tell ya! They keep putting those catalytic converters on the lowest shelf where they're most easily accessible! This is tantamount to entrapment! 🙄