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Your Miranda rights relate only to what you say in response to interrogation while in police custody. The remedy Miranda offers is to exclude improperly elicted statements from evidence. If you talk to a store security guard, talk to the police while you are not in custody, or voluntarily and spontaneously confess while in custody, your Miranda rights are unlikely to prevent the use of your statements.
During the excitement of the moment with adrenalin flowing, it's very common for shoplifters to make spontaneoius statements. These usually are an effort to 'get your story straight' while dealing with the stress and uncertainty of what has and will happen to you. Most times people don't remember what they are saying or how the story went and it changes several times. Any LP who's been on the job for a while will know this and make note in their report as to what you said....so will the cop. Basically, in the confusion of the moment, you gave it up and it's all legal to use against you. Sorry dude, but it's how just about everyone acts when they go through this kind of thing.....you should have kept quiet till you calmed down.
i gave the story to both the cop and the security guy. i gave a straight story to both of them... but while i was in the back of the cop car (im assuming i was in his custody) i was never read my rights until when i was getting out. while i was still inside i confessed to what i did. i told him the story what happened why it happened.