free-bagging
n.— «Some thieves infiltrate the store’s staff itself, working as cashiers to allow conspirators to stuff extra items in their bags at checkout—a practice called “free-bagging.”» —“Organized shoplifting rings prey on stores” by Eric Ruth News Journal (Wilmington, Delaware) Mar. 2, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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