[addicted]

Isn’t this just an easy and cheap way to wind down and have insurance pay for everything?

You don’t have to pay additional staff to be able to monitor a store. You don’t have to pay for additional security. And you don’t have to put in effort to sell your product.

Just let people steal stuff, and cover 60-70% in insurance quickly and easily, as opposed to spending weeks and months trying to offload product using massive discounts, which would probably negatively impact sales at other stores and online.

[nkurz]

I don't think that drug stores have an insurance policy that covers shoplifting. Who would offer such a policy if they knew there were going to lose money? Or if such a policy was offered, wouldn't the rates be greater than the losses? I guess I don't know for sure, maybe there is some sort of a corporate reimbursement. Are you guessing, or do you know more?