Did you know shoplifting accounts for 1/3 of shrinkage? Shrinkage is defined as shoplifting, internal theft and accounting/inventory errors. Shrinkage for big box stores is ~1.4%, so generously it’s about 0.5% of revenue that is lost by shoplifting.

The CEO of Walmart clears $24mil/year annually which is 933 times the salary of an average Walmart employee. They can fucking afford to write off shoplifting without dumping the increase on retail consumers, just pay executives slightly less, Jesus H Christ!