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That's true, but when you work checkout, you're told to look there, specifically. And cameras, so be careful. If you steal meat, for instance, move to a non monitored isle, something cheap they don't care about you stealing, so they don't monitor it, and stash the meat there. But also Buy one of whatever you steal. They see you pick stuff up, but they can't really tell you picked up 2 of the same slab of meat, they see you pay for one, they think all is good. Be super friendly and nice to all the staff. It's not them you're stealing from, they hate the system as much as you. Wear glasses, and mildly but not flashy upmarket clothing. Don't wear hoodies or sunnies or nondescript clothing. And then you're magically invisible. After working in a supermarket for multiple years, I can tell you exactly who they watch, and who they don't.
Oh, also, watch out for security disgused as shoppers, they'll walk around with a basket without any refrigerated items, just weird random junk, and they look at the people more than the shelves, walk too slow, and they'll randomly follow you, so go in weird directions so you can spot them, act like you gotta double back to a few different weird isles, out of order, then it's too obvious for them to follow you. Then If you see them try to follow you, but get frustrated, you definitely know to steal away from them. Or come back another day, they're not there every day, or all day.
Storytime, I had a lady with a stroller come through, saw her all the time. She never looked me in the eyes, never bought much, was always a little off, avoidant to the point of rude. I always knew something was off, but i never check prams, because f that. One day I see a line of big burly blokes lined up at the exit to my register, I was running, "what's up fellas?" "Here to catch a thief, don't worry about it" they apprehend her, she had been loading her pram, chockas full, with meat slabs, they tell me later, they watched her put them all in her stroller. They watch the expensive stuff like a hawk.
Don't feel bad stealing from corporations, they don't feel bad stealing from you.
Also in bigger stores like Target, there may not be an unmonitored aisle. Just... look up, if you don't believe me. But maybe not too obviously.
Many places punish employees for excessive "loss" in their departments. Sometimes explicitly.
Even ignoring that places will price "loss" into their products, I think it's important to consider that this can affect "the little guy" too. Disproportionately at times, imo
Pricing in the loss only makes sense if it recovered any of the losses. And if it did, I'm pretty sure they would've already done it regardless of whether there's any loss since it would just be pure profit in its absence.
Maybe I'm not understanding what you mean, but I don't think that's true. They raise prices to account for the fact that they will not receive any money and lose out on what they paid for some percentage of the items.
Not necessarily. Not if they're trying to beat a competitor's price, for instance.
Those same competitors exist even if you steal from them. If raising prices means they make less profit due to those competitors, then they can't raise prices to offset losses either.