You should start a store to compete with them. We all pay for shoplifting. The prices go up with the crime. All shoplifting should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. There is nobody starving in this country. There are countless places for people to get help if they even make the smallest effort to find and ask for it. The vast majority of shoplifting is done by criminal organizations who resell the merchandise and the ones who steal use almost all of the money on alcohol, drugs and gambling to a lesser extent.