I always feel like I'm being watched when I go into a store alone. I dress the same way generally, I've never given 2 shits about fashion sense my whole life so I've lived off of t-shirts and whatever pants are comfy.  Where I work the most common shoplifters are native americans (we get lots of drunken natives trying to steal high price items for cash or Listerine so they can drink it), it got bad enough to the point that we keep the regular flavor listerine behind our customer service desk now. I had our security guy tell me that teenage girls are arguably the most common thieves. I dunno what to say about that. I've seen people from every demographic steal it seems like. I made an exception for this one guy because I'm like 90% sure he's homeless or at least pretty poor. But he always comes in late at night and sits in our lobby seating area, I noticed he was stealing a sandwich one time from our deli but I wasn't 100% sure so I watched him the next time I saw him and sure enough he was stealing them. I contemplated stopping him but didn't for 3 reasons - he always wore the same clothes, he wasn't fat, and last time he stole a sandwich he still bought a tomato too when he came in. The most coordinated thieves try to steal meat from our meat department. You can load up a single buggy with well over 2000$ in meat very quickly. Fresh meat is probably the worst item to steal because anyone stealing fresh meat generally tries to steal a LOT of it. Condoms and eye drops get stolen all the time but only in quantities of 1, if a meat thief manages to get away it can mean losing a shit ton of money.  Of all the thieves I've seen caught by our loss prevention, I only ever heard a 1 guy apologize about stealing. Most thieves always try to give attitude until the police show up.