Comment by underlipton

>Regulatory authorities and courts enforce against wage theft. Shoplifting enforcement is mostly up to businesses.

Wildly naive and incorrect. Wage theft enforcement is limited by access to government labor rights protection resources and legal counsel, and usually just the first. Even simply filing a claim against shoplifting losses, let alone pursuing criminal prosecution, requires getting law enforcement involved. In all cases, you're waiting on authorities to involve themselves and sign off on outcomes. Time and resources put towards one incident are being kept from being applied to another.

>but that doesn't necessarily track the actual data.

That's not the actual data.

https://popular.info/p/lies-damn-lies-and-shoplifting-statis...

The NRF are a notoriously poor and biased source to rely on for this subject.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/07/us-retail-lobbyists-retract-...