Shit i used to steal a ton when i was in highschool and just moved into my own apartment.
I'd steal food mainly. Drinks, deli food, stuff like that.
I used to go to a grocery store with like 2 dollars to my name. Buy 6 packs of ramen for a dollar, then my roommate would be walking around grabbing stuff like chicken/beef/cheese/boxed food and I would buy the Ramen, start heading to a particular exit and he would meet me in the lesser active aisles, usually kitchen type aisles, then just toss all the shit he grabbed into my bags of ramen, then we just walk out.
Sometimes i would grab a deli platter of chicken wings or sandwiches and stack shit on top of it and just straight up walk out. Someone tried to stop me once but I took off running and ran into the woods and met my friends at the park lmao.
Lmfao, one time I was about to move out of my apartment so i went to the store and bought this gigantic tub so that i could put some of my stuff in. I was fucking starving so I walked to the food areas and stuffed the tub with random shit. Sushi, chicken wings, sandwiches, and random deli shit. Put the lid on the tub and started carrying it to U-Scan. I was trying to get the tub on the barcode reader but the tub was too big to fit. A worker saw that i was struggling so he walked up and was like "just tilt it up i have a hand scanner" So i tilted it, heard a bunch of shit move around inside the tub, but he scanned it and walked off and I paid for the tub and left with maybe 40 bucks worth of random deli items.
I dont do it often anymore. Unless its a super small item like chapstick. Fuck paying for chapstick.
With the drug problem AK has though at almost every grocery store here they got security guards with guns (because we've had multiple times where the guards have gotten stabbed or shot while confronting theft) and if the buzzer goes off they will search all your bags. For some reason that buzzer always goes off on me. Even when i walk into the store empty handed the buzzer goes off.