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Policy in most chains is to document and tabulate. It's not worth it to prosecute until they have documentation that the amount you've stolen has reached the threshold of felony theft. Check the statutes in your area, the dollar value isn't indexed to inflation, so the threat of incarceration to people just trying to get by grows every year.