"The first was that a shoplifter had to enter the section they were stealing from. "In order to make an arrest, there were five things we had to see," says another of our sources.
But even then, the procedure is so strict and there are so many hoops to jump through that most thieves are likely to get away anyway. You'd hit the level of theft worthy enough for a Loss Prevention employee to want to throw the book at you. Say you attempt to shoplift $40 worth of Q-Tips and mayonnaise. When reporters occasionally investigate and complain, stores have to admit, "Yeah, that's pretty messed up" and change the doors. But loss prevention officers can and will do this as they stroll by. Customers don't creep close and look in, or else they'd be hauled off to the pervert jail. But from the outside, people nearby can see in just fine (from the right angle).
These look merely decorative when you're on the inside, since they're angled upward and you can't see a thing through them. They can see you right through the changing room door, which often has slats. (And yes, it's perfectly legal in most cases - only 13 US states forbid monitoring customers in dressing rooms.) But many stores don't need electronic surveillance or two-way mirrors for this. For shoplifters, changing rooms are famously hide-the-stolen-booty rooms, so you figure the store's secretly monitoring you. When you fumble around in your underwear in a store's fitting room, maybe you peer suspiciously at every corner, looking for cameras, or you study the mirror to see if there's a bored security guard sitting behind it.
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