ABSTRACT
Shoplifting is an expensive problem that everybody pays the price for. It hurts one in several ways and prices keep going up as store owners try to recover some of their losses. A big department store can spend millions a year on security, but it may lose as much as $2,000 a day to shoplifters. And shoplifters give teenagers a bad name. Some people in the community may hold a negative opinion about teens in general because incidents of teen shoplifting they hear about. Teen shoplifting puts a strain on relationships between all teens and store owners. Some stores have policies that restrict the number of teenagers who can enter the store at one time. If teens are caught shoplifting, their juvenile police records are supposed to be confidential and unavailable to future employers, but sometimes that information does get out.
