[drewcoo]

Walgreens - great example! That's a pharmacy. Pharmacies have to follow strict safety regulations and are constantly worried about both those and the threat of lawsuits for endangering customers. And there are also both internal and external threats to the business (drugs are a valuable, easily portable asset).

Oversimplifying a lot, Walgreens has these well-paid, trained workers they call "pharmacists" to deal with it.

[bpodgursky]

You are trying to whatabout this, ignoring the actual point. Let's not do that.

The Pharmacists make only effort to prevent someone from breaking into the Pharmacy with a crowbar and stealing all the drugs + prescriptions. In fact, I would be shocked if Walgreens even _allowed_ staff to physically detain shoplifters -- that's a huge legal liability.

Defending those goods is the job of the police.