shoplifting

noun

Etymology: By surface analysis, shoplift + -ing. The noun sense (from 1690) predates the verb.

The action of stealing goods from a shop, store or other place of business.
“[…]William Grove for robbing his Master of twenty-sive Guineas ; and Catharine Knox for Shoplifting.”
“1757 December 22, The London Chronicle, Volume II: June 30 - December 31, page 594, Yesterday Afternoon a Woman well dreſs'd, was detected at Mr. Flint′s, a Haberdasher on London-Bridge, in Shoplifting, and on examining her, there were found on her ſome Goods belonging to Mr. Kennet, a Haberdasher at the ſame Place.”
A theft from a shop during trading hours.
“In high school, he bleached his hair and began a series of shopliftings and bicycle thefts.”
“And we hardly even consider the countless robberies, shopliftings, burglaries, carjackings, kidnappings, stalkings, intimidations and harassments.”

Etymology: By surface analysis, shoplift + -ing. The noun sense (from 1690) predates the verb.