Advice for young people on tumblr:

Shoplifting gets low-income retail workers punished or fired and does absolutely nothing to hurt corporate profits.

Whatever financial hit a store takes from shoplifting, it gets taken out on their minimum wage workers. Most of those workers would get fired if they took any one thing from the store, no matter how much they needed it.

When you shoplift, you’re endangering poor people’s jobs. It’s not cool.

ADVICE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE ON TUMBLR

Shoplifting is a GREAT WAY to put mom and pop businesses OUT OF BUSINESS. 
Shoplifting is a GREAT WAY to throw off a stores inventory which will throw the employees under scrutiny.
Shoplifting is a GREAT WAY to put innocent employees in an extremely unsafe position because their options are to either A: let you get away with it and report you and then possibly get FIRED for “being inattentive” or B: Attempt to confront you and risk you throwing a FIT making a SCENE and eventually get the employee FIRED for “Not treating customers right” and shouldering the responsibility for the scene YOU JUST MADE. 
Shoplifting is a GREAT WAY to force companies into downsizing because they aren’t pulling enough revenue- firing hundreds of people who never did you any wrong.

Shoplifting is a GREAT WAY to make a complete jerk out of yourself and hurt as many workers as possible in the process.

And because the OP seems like something a person who only cares about themselves might say, you can also get caught and prosecuted. In fact if you do it often enough, it’s inevitable that eventually you will.

Yup. Plus, having any sort of criminal record can restrict you not only for the employment opportunities you’ll apply for later in life, but even for some volunteer work - and if you end up unemployed, depending on where you live and what your circumstances are, you may be required to do volunteer work in order to qualify for assistance.