[taurath]

I’ll take another tack than the others here - it is unethical. You are commoditizing and automating private law enforcement. You’re assisting putting people who generally only shoplift because they’re poor into a cycle of criminality. We have done extremely little as a society to support poor people, and up until 60 years ago we’re actively spraying down PoC with hoses. It’s not good. It’s like manufacturing tear gas.

Now there’s plenty of ways to self justify this. There is a need for shopkeepers to deter theft. There are ethical ways of going about it, but keep in mind if you are 100% effective you will be almost exclusively be catching poor people who wouldn’t shoplift if they weren’t poor. If you desperately need money to survive, then take care of yourself. But IMO you’re right to ask.