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Supporters argue that the initiative is essential to closing legal loopholes that have hindered law enforcement's ability to penalize shoplifters and drug dealers effectively.
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2024
Marcello Hernández played a bottle of shampoo, kept behind lock and key to ward off shoplifters, and Bowen Yang played a creepy bus driver who makes toilet gin in the bus restroom.
—Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 2 Nov. 2024
Pic is about a ring of enterprising boosters (aka shoplifters, equal opportunists), who take aim at a cutthroat fashion maven.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2024
There’s a homelessness crisis intertwined with a fentanyl crisis on the streets, retailers are locking away more merchandise to deter shoplifters, metals thieves are making off with whole streetlamps, and sometimes destructive, sometimes deadly street takeovers are proliferating.
—Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2024
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2024
Marcello Hernández played a bottle of shampoo, kept behind lock and key to ward off shoplifters, and Bowen Yang played a creepy bus driver who makes toilet gin in the bus restroom.
—Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 2 Nov. 2024
Pic is about a ring of enterprising boosters (aka shoplifters, equal opportunists), who take aim at a cutthroat fashion maven.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2024
There’s a homelessness crisis intertwined with a fentanyl crisis on the streets, retailers are locking away more merchandise to deter shoplifters, metals thieves are making off with whole streetlamps, and sometimes destructive, sometimes deadly street takeovers are proliferating.
—Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2024
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“Shoplifter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shoplifter. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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shoplifter
noun
shop·lift·er
-ˌlif-tər 
: a person who shoplifts
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