How could you possibly know that.
Retailers have no reason to report crime they do not expect to be investigated or prosecuted.
Don't say insurance because nobody is reporting shoplifting to their insurance.
Retailers have no reason to report crime they do not expect to be investigated or prosecuted.
Don't say insurance because nobody is reporting shoplifting to their insurance.
Of course, you cannot know, but statistics is quite clear that shoplifting decrease is way more probable than increase, and you need some other reasons to advocate for increasing shoplifting. So when somebody does that, it’s highly probable that not because shoplifting is actually increasing.
Big retailers just bake crime into the cost of goods sold.