The police rarely have ever been super responsive on shoplifting and basic trespass. I worked at a big box electronics store in the 90s, and we got looted when management did stupid shit like put hard drives on a retail shelf to save labor. The police rarely cared with some specific exception.

These cases are both minor and hard to prosecute.

The difference isn’t enforcement, it’s demand. The retail model as it stands today wasn’t designed for a world where there is a global market for everything. 95% people are honest, and most dishonest people are disorganized and easy to deter.

If you were to raid a drug store in 1986, your ability to unload stolen toothpaste and hair spray was pretty limited - maybe some mafias had a network of bodegas or independent stores.

Today, you have a major corporation that prides itself at having the “world‘s largest selection”. It’s also the worlds largest fence — Amazon.

You really need to figure out how to get the police to do their job.

...Do you, perhaps, detect some sort of a difference between your neighborhood convenience store, and Wal-Mart?

Perhaps some differences in level of power?

Perhaps some differences in the degree to which police are willing to bend over backward for them, vs blowing them off?

The symptoms you're describing don't seem to match the proposed treatment.

Police: "You've caught them red-handed on camera, but we're very busy and we don't care. Or perhaps this is a place where we're deliberately doing-nothing as a revenge or pressure-tactic against local politicians."

Shopkeeper: "Ah, but this time I have the camera-footage and fancy biometrics of everyone in the store!"

Police: "Oh, well why didn't you say so? That completely changes things, we're always willing to help out a fellow biometrics fan."