How depraved and worthless

[Magoo]

i caught dozens of shoplifters when i was in retail.
For the younger ones its usually a theft of opportunity, because they can.
what they forget is how often we get shoplifted and how good we are at catching them.

the next size up are your 'steal to order' thieves, who are coming in with a shopping list.
i know a guy in Hawkes Bay, as well as running a prostitution outcall service also has a large criminal network of thieves and will get you anything you want. anything.
New bed linen? what size and colour? a big block for a 69 Camaro?. auto or manual?
I didnt see many of these as the only rule I had in my shop was that we didnt sell anything of use, or useful in any way.

next up are threepeaters, them as not all there, like hunnis mate, or harmlesses friends.
the most annoying. usually after the same thing. week after week.
for us was a nutbar lady with a parrot who tried to get the big Nici soft toys. The $150 ones.
i chased her down a dozen times, didnt call the police, it didnt help.

we had a reputation as being a bad place to shoplift, the owner being an unpredictable, loose cannon.