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Don't park your car in the parking lot of the shop that you intend on stealing from.

Wear things that conceal your face but try to balance concealment with being inconspicuous; if you overdo it then you risk drawing attention to yourself.

Wearing headphones can often reduce the amount of interaction you have with staff at the exit and it provides you with plausible deniability if you just walk out and "accidentally" ignore a staff member.

Bag checks are almost always surface level. Conceal your shoplifting beneath something big or bulky, including stuff like your own personal clothing. Often staff policy is that they cannot put their hands in your bags because then you are able to argue that they planted something/took something/broke something, and staff putting their hands in your bags also poses a personal risk to staff members.

Most receipt checks are cursory at best, often staff don't even bother actually looking at the receipts at all but it's just theatre.

Your receipt is going to be valid for the whole day. It's possible to exploit this by buying once and carrying the same item(s) out a second time.

Practice by shoplifting extremely low value items that nobody in their right mind would intentionally shoplift, such as mints or a packet of gum. If you get caught you can just pretend like it was an accident and you can refine your shoplifting techniques through a low-risk process of trial and error.

Beware of RFID tags.