Shoplifting doesn't pay (especially when you're not good)

Wouldn't criminals look the type? How could you operate in that kind of fog that you wouldn't even notice that everyone in the area is looking at you?

It's funny when our store walker is onto someone shoplifting. They're hiding stuff under the baby's blankets (teach your children what?), or inside bulky clothing, or in bags that they've already checked out. You name it, they've done it.

So they're in electronics or cosmetics or wherever, stuffing away. And they're caught on video or by a staff member. First one person, then as people notice, more and more staff are watching from afar, trying to be nonchalant. Can't wait for the moment when they try to go for the door, and they're confronted.

Now imagine being that person. You've been stuffing things in. Wouldn't you be looking around, judging if someone saw you? If the same person is anywhere near you when you go to another part of the store? Or are you totally oblivious?

Apparently, totally clueless. Not that criminals are the world's smartest people, but apparently it doesn't take a brain to shoplift. And as the economy gets worse, there are more of them. And the store is chalking up more arrests.