Bed linen/textiles
CDs
Cellular phone cards
Children's clothes
Chocolate
Contraceptives
Cosmetics
Costume jewellery and earrings
Designer accessories
Designer handbags
Duracell Batteries
DVDs
Electrical Power tools, well-known makes such as Bosch
Electrical skin care and toothbrushes, eg Braun
Female lingerie
Gillette Mach 3
Kodak Films
Leather belts

This helps to explain why so many shoplifters steal from stores on their birthday and around holiday times.

The public pays a further £1.731 billion (50.3% of the full total) through Police, Courts, and the Criminal Justice System dealing with thieves, as well as business disruption, retail security costs, and Government tax losses caused by retail crime.

Editor's note: The 6th grade students at Meyer Middle School have been working cooperatively with ShopKo and the River Falls Police Department to address the topic of shoplifting.

1. Achievement - How does your product/service contribute to the customer's achievement or accomplishment of something notable in life? In this example, your product/service becomes part of the customer's identity.
2. Pride of ownership - How does your product/service contribute to the pride someone would feel from ownership? When you pit pride against features or benefits, pride usually wins in the end.

The ShopKo division has 140 stores in 15 states. Located in mid-sized to larger cities, ShopKo stores are multi-department retail stores committed to offering quality merchandise, services and value to meet customers' needs for home, family basics, casual apparel and seasonal products, with a special emphasis on retail health.

There is also such a thing as a " cultural thinking error ".
One common cultural thinking error occurs when we minimize the impact of shoplifting by buying into the notion that if someone is "shoplifting", he must be a victim. Common cultural thinking errors are that theft offenders are victims of poverty, poor parenting, hunger, alcohol and drugs, ADHD, peer pressure, etc.

Suppose you are a sales clerk in a store and some of your friends want you to let them shoplift. Answer the following questions.

1. If you refused to let them shoplift, would that make you a disloyal friend? Explain your answer.

2. How would you respond if your friends said to you:

“My parents are so disappointed in me”
“Stealing was my lowest point”
“I'm a statistic”
“The hardest thing is the way my parents look at me, like a bad person”
“I'm a good kid. I can't believe I was so stupid”
“I'm so embarrassed”
“My friend said that if we got caught, she would say it was her alone. She didn't.”
“My grandmother thought I was the best, now I think she looks down on me”

"I've never let anyone go. I'm a firm believer in the policy. Everybody's treated the same. We try not to let feelings get in the way of that. I don't have a problem with treating everyone equally. If I stopped an old lady, then she's shoplifting. If I stop a teenager, they're still committing a crime and taking advantage of us."

put the object in my pocket. walk around a little, with my hands in my pocket, taking the wrappers off. walk out of the store. and then never use the thing i stole because i figure out later that i don't need it.