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    Default Re: Will Stores Figure Out That You Shoplifted After the Fact

    if you never steal again and never got to the stores or any of their other branches or the included plazaz, your odds of prosecution are quite low, shoplifting is a fairly simple crime, they either have sufficient evidence of theft or they don't, they either have your identity or they don't.

    I can't speak for the law enforcement side of things, but on the formerly retail side of things all the shoplifters we tagged and bagged were either caught red handed with stolen goods or recognized after returning to the same or another store in the chain (LP shared photos of mystery shoplifters caught after the fact on super crappy surveillance camera, it's a miracle if you could even tell the race/sex of the offender back then, nowadays cheap high definition cameras are the norm so technolog has shifted far into LP's favor.)

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    Default Re: Will Stores Figure Out That You Shoplifted After the Fact

    This can be very dependent upon the company. Some retailers are very, very squeamish about "after the fact" prosecutions, and really want to only deal with people caught at the time of theft with the merchandise on them.

    I currently work part-time for a (national, iconic) company that is actually very liberal and aggressive with "after the fact" arrests. If we can show a theft occurred, and we can ID someone later, no matter the investigative avenue used to ID them, we can file charges on them. There are also occasions in which we elect not to stop shoplifters at the time of the offense, but instead build a case and compile evidence of multiple thefts for a later arrest. Obviously, I can't discuss when/why this is done.

    As to the OP, he/she references a shoplifting "habit" that developed over several months. Without specifics, it's hard for me to say whether this would be a case where we would likely be compiling evidence or whether it's something we wouldn't have bothered with if not apprehended at the time of theft.

    I would say that the odds are probably against prosecution at this point, and that getting into counseling can only be a positive thing if later arrested. But none of us have a crystal ball that can predict the future.

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