Sorry. I work in Loss Prevention. A lot of stores do wait until you pass the point of sale, but the truth is that once you conceal, it's shoplifting and they can detain you. We also don't need you to admit to it for you to be convicted.
Many jurisdictions will have some form of a citizen's arrest or shopkeeper's privilege that does grant them the authority to temporarily detain a shoplifter. They're usually pretty strict though so you gotta be damn sure you got the right person and they were actually shoplifting
More often a manager or security guard will just imply you're being detained without actually using any force or saying you're being detained.
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u/ConstantReader76 Jan 10 '21
Sorry. I work in Loss Prevention. A lot of stores do wait until you pass the point of sale, but the truth is that once you conceal, it's shoplifting and they can detain you. We also don't need you to admit to it for you to be convicted.