Yes because if people steal it causes prices to be raised and the store may even close that location resulting in people losing a cheap place to shop as well as people losing jobs
Stealing $5 of apples from Walmart does jack shit to their profitability
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Anonymous8w
Obviously you should deter it, but on an individual level it’s negligible.
Mega corporations like Walmart already have shoplifting losses modeled in their annual budgets.