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The Hong Kong papers also talked for days about the shoplifter in a Dacron suit.—Eileen Chang, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025 That has become a practice with some independent boutique owners that have been targeted by shoplifters in the past few years.—Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 9 May 2025 These are professional shoplifters backed by criminal organizations that plan large-scale thefts and fence the products on the gray market, often selling across state lines or through the internet.—Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 2 Apr. 2025 Stores are catching shoplifters only 2% of the time, and police make arrests in one out of 100 incidents.—James Fotis, Boston Herald, 26 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for shoplifter
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