Comment by heavyset_go

3 days ago

There's aggregation laws that allow shoplifting incidents to be added up to a total charge.

Also, consider someone stealing small amounts over a year from a single store, a chain of stores or a group of stores with the same owners. The victims in these cases are the same entity.

That said, the trend in my area is for business owners to share data about accused shoplifters, help law enforcement with investigations, etc. I would not be surprised if they're all using a platform to do this these days.