&gt;drinking a $0.98 iced tea before paying<p>Or shoving it behind something else on a shelf and not paying at all. When people no longer have any respect for authority, social contract or citizenship AND you can&#x27;t crack them over the head to teach a lesson in hard knocks, how are loss prevention supposed to deal with it? You let it go, then it&#x27;s suddenly a widespread thing (YES IT WILL BE) and it costs everyone. And frankly it never ends. Certain people will go so low at the expense of others, it makes for an unworkable culture.