[jessecurry]

If private companies did something like this it would be called price-fixing and they would be prosecuted.

[the-dude]

If private companies would start to imprison shoplifters, it would be illegal and they would be prosecuted.

A private company is not government and government is not a private company.

What is your point exactly?

[ourmandave]

https://www.wikihow.com/Legally-Detain-a-Shoplifter

[the-dude]

That is why I said imprison.

Even if the state does it in NL, there is a difference between imprisonment and detainment. They are even physically different : they are different buildings.