Everytime, and i mean EVERY SINGLE TIME, you have been told prices have increased because of shoplifting it has been a lie. Its propaganda and will continue to be propaganda. These companies will do anything they possibly can to siphon off as much as they can. Wage theft exceeds shoplifting.

Yeah man, if youre poor you have no right to living standards /s

Just steal it then instead of paying for it?

The prices don’t raise if it’s just free anyway ;)

By telling people not to shoplift you're increasing the price for them from 0$ to retail. Nice going.

good! fuck everybody else, my children need wine

Depends on the store, depends on the scale.

Raising prices is a last resort for stores. Before they do that most places such as supermarkets will cut hours in order to make up for a bad inventory. So shoplifting more directly causes retail employees to lose much needed hours.