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And the risk can be real with even one shoplifter, as many retailers can attest.
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Evan Clark, WWD, 22 Nov. 2024
When an employee told officers that there was a shoplifter on the loose, the officers — clearly already on the scene — searched through the Walmart to find him.
—Sabrina Moreno, Axios, 4 Dec. 2024
Supporters argue that the initiative is essential to closing legal loopholes that have hindered law enforcement's ability to penalize shoplifters and drug dealers effectively.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2024
Marcello Hernández played a bottle of shampoo, kept behind lock and key to ward off shoplifters, and Bowen Yang played a creepy bus driver who makes toilet gin in the bus restroom.
—Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 2 Nov. 2024
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Evan Clark, WWD, 22 Nov. 2024
When an employee told officers that there was a shoplifter on the loose, the officers — clearly already on the scene — searched through the Walmart to find him.
—Sabrina Moreno, Axios, 4 Dec. 2024
Supporters argue that the initiative is essential to closing legal loopholes that have hindered law enforcement's ability to penalize shoplifters and drug dealers effectively.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2024
Marcello Hernández played a bottle of shampoo, kept behind lock and key to ward off shoplifters, and Bowen Yang played a creepy bus driver who makes toilet gin in the bus restroom.
—Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 2 Nov. 2024
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“Shoplifter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shoplifter. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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shoplifter
noun
shop·lift·er
-ˌlif-tər 
: a person who shoplifts
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