"shop stealer" meaning in English

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          "text": "If you suspect a shop stealer, pay this person a lot of attention."
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          "text": "1989, Criminologica Foundation, Criminology & Penology Abstracts, Volume 29, Issues 4-6, page 438,\nThis article reports comparisons of views on shop stealers held by involved professionals […] ."
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        {
          "text": "2003, Geoffrey Heard, Gordon Woolf, Success in Store: How to Start Or Buy a Retail Business, Enjoy Running It, The Worsley Press, Australia, page 107,\nI am writing this the day after I sacked a customer (yes, you can sack a customer — Gordon′s example of a shop stealer is sacking a customer) who is struggling for dollars, but refused to take advice about building his business and accepted the blandishments of a Yellow Pages salesman."
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          "text": "It is essential for the compulsive shop-stealer to be charged by police, for the gambler to repay his debts, the violent alcoholic to repair the damaged furniture.",
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        "A shoplifter."
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          "sense": "shoplifter",
          "word": "入店行窃"
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        },
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      "word": "入店行窃"
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