Does your local dollar store get shoplifted frequently?

I was buying cheap snacks (Shasta cola and chips ‘and yeah I went for a walk’) and the teller told me that the store just got shoplifted by two adults. I asked if she was going to call the cops and she said “It’s a dollar store the cops won’t do anything”. Is this normal? I guess that they can hire a security guard , but then prices would go up. What is the solution to adult shoplifting? When I worked graveyard shifts at a 24 hour grocery store I was told that the courts won’t do anything until the shoplifters were caught 7 times.