Corporations want it both ways ...

... docile workers that will work for little or no pay, which make them poor and more apt to want to steal in order to get cheap food

... honest customers that won't steal, even if they become desperate because corporations refused to pay them a living wage to afford food

Economically speaking ... it's a no brainer ... pay people a living wage and pay for more cashiers to work at the front .. the company makes more money by securing purchases and keeping everyone honest and you maintain a workforce of highly paid people who go to spend their money with your stores anyway

Instead, we want to maintain a system where money and wealth continually keep getting shoved to ever smaller groups of people and we wonder why those of us at the bottom keep trying steal and rob the system just to get by.

'If you give a man gun he can rob a bank; if you give man a bank he can rob the world.'