A blond cop pulls over a blond and asks for her drivers license. The blond starts looking through her car then asks, “Uhh, what are they again?”
The blond cop replies, “Ugh. It’s the thing in your purse with your picture on it.” “Oh yeah,” says the blond who reaches in her purse, pulls out a compact mirror, and hands it over. The blond cop opens it, takes a look inside, hands it back, and says, “I’m sorry ma’am. If I knew you were a cop, I wouldn’t have pulled you over.”
Reminds me of my local Tesco store where someone casually walked in, took the 65 inch TV of the shelf, walks past the security guard and says “cheers mate, catch you later”…!
Neither you nor the security guard are getting paid enough to put your lives on the line for the sake of some stock item that the company pays insurance for anyway. And the guy stealing; you don’t know his circumstances. He might be desperate. Observe, report, and keep breathing. That’s actually what the security guard is doing too, because that’s his job description. He’s there to protect the customers and staff, not the stock. If something more serious than shoplifting goes down, the best thing either of you can do is stay safe, keep others safe, and be a good witness. As Chief Wiggum once said, “I’d rather let a thousand guilty men go free than chase after 'em.”