Regardless of all those policies every company has a policy against anyone no matter what position confronting a shoplifter with a weapon.
Yeah, and such policies enable criminals to ply their trade.
Such policies protect the company from liability and hopefully keep a bad situation from turning worse.
Hope is such a lovely thing. It's a mathematical certainty that criminals will target the same business again once they learn its easy to rob them. You really want some cashier getting to a scuffle over a gun or knife.
If it will prevent foreseeable murders from being done with that weapon, yes. Not to mention the liability that occurs when they confront someone who isn't a shoplifter and proceed to get physical with them.
This is already covered under law in "shopkeepers privilege"There are professionals trained in detecting and apprehending shoplifters.
Where are these soi-disant "professionals"? If they truly existed, thieves would be too terrified to steal. However no piece of store merchandise is worth your life.
We finally agree on something. But the criminals life is worth far, far less to me than my property is.