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Who Pays?
Everyone pays for shoplifting -- businessmen suffer lower profits and consumers ultimately pay higher prices. More importantly, shoplifting is stealing and stealing is a criminal act.
Theft of a $2.00 item from a store operating on a 10% profit margin requires the sale of $20.00 in merchandise to make up for the loss. Supermarkets and others operating on low margins of 1% must sell $300.00 in merchandise, just to cover the cost of a $3.00 item.
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