There's enough fear of it that you can sell bigger and bigger security systems to counter the perception of shoplifting that you have to know is happening because that's just what happens when you downsize the labor force which is what you need to do to boost profits which is where you get the financing to expand so that you can build new locations with fewer employees and lots of potential shoplifters.

The ideal business model is ultimately a big GACHA vendor that sells tokens to another selection of smaller GACHA vendors, with a line of AI bots to feed quarters from one machine into another to create the illusion of a growing business.