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! 🙄

                    PA-PLAYA

                    I heard that suggestion from a California congresswoman a few weeks back. She said Toyota made it way to easy to steal catalytic converters.

                      Par4QC

                      From the photos in the article, they sure look like "thugs" as PA-Playa labeled them upthread. (That is certainly a charged word that should not be loosely thrown around nowadays)

                      But more to the point , since the "comedians" above are making light of the matter with their ridiculous strawmen, if people wouldn't buy stolen goods, people wouldn't steal stuff for resale (for ORC purposes, anyways). Focusing on stopping the thefts won't stop the problem; which was my point above that nobody understood because it gets in the way of their "thug petty shoplifter" narrative and mental preconceived images.

                      If you want to stop this problem you have to stop it BOTH on the retail side and on the black market re-sale of the hot goods side. Good luck with the current approach of just the former.