QOSHE - Mark Smith: Shoplifting in Scotland is up by 25%. Who’s really to blame? Shoplifting in Scotland is up 25% in a year and yet the news has created barely a ripple. People walk into shops, they steal, they pinch, they nick, they leave, the authorities appear to do nothing, or virtually nothing, the problem gets worse, and we look up from our phones, or don’t, and say: what do you want me to do about it, it’s how the world works, isn’t it?