Question: How do retailers make up for losses due to shoplifting?

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United States elections, 1890: The 1890 United States elections occurred in the middle of Republican President Benjamin Harrison's term.  Members of the 52nd United States Congress were chosen in this election.  The Republicans suffered major losses due to the Panic of 1890 and the unpopularity of the McKinley Tariff.  The Populist Party also emerged as an important third party.

World War II casualties of the Soviet Union: World War II casualties of the Soviet Union from all related causes numbered more than 20,000,000, both civilian and military, although the exact figures are disputed.  The number 20 million was considered official during the Soviet era.  In 1993 a study by the Russian Academy of Sciences estimated that the total number of Soviet population losses due to the war was 26.6 million, including 8.7 million military deaths as calculated by the Russian Ministry of Defense.  These figures have been accepted by most historians outside Russia.  However, the official figure of 8.7 million military deaths has been disputed by some Russian historians who believe that the number of dead and missing POWs is underestimated.  Officials at the Russian Central Defense Ministry Archive (CDMA) maintain that their database lists the names of roughly 14 million dead and missing service personnel.  Some Russian politicians and journalists put the total number of losses in the war, both civilian and military, at over 40 million, however scholars outside of Russia believe that these figures are without serious foundation.

Chesapeake Warehouses: The Chesapeake Warehouses are a complex of eight former tobacco storage facilities at 1100 Dinwiddie Avenue in Richmond, Virginia.  These facilities were built c. 1929, and served as storage facilities for a number of the major American tobacco companies.  Each warehouse was a single-story timber frame building with galvanized sheet metal walls, and was about 20000 sqft in size.  Tobacco was brought into the complex, which originally had fourteen warehouses, by rail, and was delivered to local processing plants by truck.  They were in regular use until 1963, when industry practices moved away from the centralized storage of large quantities of tobacco, a practice that resulted in significant losses due to insect infestation.  Six of the original warehouses were demolished due to termite infestation.

Shoplifting: Shoplifting (also known in slang as boosting and five-finger discount) is a popular term used for the unnoticed theft of goods from an open retail establishment.  Shoplifting typically involves a person concealing a store item on their person, in pockets or under clothes (or in a bag, baby stroller, etc.) and leaving the store without paying for it.  With clothing, shoplifters may put on items from the store and leave the store wearing the clothes.  The terms "shoplifting" and "shoplifter" are not usually defined in law.  The crime of shoplifting generally falls under the legal classification of larceny.  Shoplifting is distinct from burglary (theft by breaking into a closed store), robbery (stealing by threatening or engaging in violent behavior) or armed robbery (stealing by using a weapon).  In the retail industry, the word shrinkage or shrink can be used to refer to merchandise lost by shoplifting, but the word also includes loss by other means, such as waste and theft by store employees.

Shrinkage (accounting): In accounting, inventory shrinkage (sometimes shortened to shrinkage or shrink) is when a retailer has fewer items in stock than in the inventory list due to clerical error or goods being damaged, lost, or stolen between the point of manufacture (or purchase from a supplier) and the point of sale.  This affects the level of profit margins a business will be able to make.  If the amount of shrinkage is large, profits go down.  This leads retailers to increase prices in order to make up for losses, effectively passing the cost of shrinkage onto paying customers.

Post-harvest losses (grains): Grains may be lost in the pre-harvest, harvest, and post-harvest stages.  Pre-harvest losses occur before the process of harvesting begins, and may be due to insects, weeds, and rusts.  Harvest losses occur between the beginning and completion of harvesting, and are primarily caused by losses due to shattering.  Post-harvest losses occur between harvest and the moment of human consumption.  They include on-farm losses, such as when grain is threshed, winnowed, and dried, as well as losses along the chain during transportation, storage, and processing.  Important in many developing countries, particularly in Africa, are on-farm losses during storage, when the grain is being stored for auto-consumption or while the farmer awaits a selling opportunity or a rise in prices.

Drop shipping: Drop shipping is a supply chain management method in which the retailer does not keep goods in stock but instead transfers customer orders and shipment details to either the manufacturer, another retailer, or a wholesaler, who then ships the goods directly to the customer.  As in retail businesses, the majority of retailers make their profit on the difference between the wholesale and retail price, but some retailers earn an agreed percentage of the sales in commission, paid by the wholesaler to the retailer.

Direct insolation: Direct insolation is the solar insolation measured at a given location on Earth with a surface element perpendicular to the Sun's rays, excluding diffuse insolation (the solar radiation that is scattered or reflected by atmospheric components in the sky).  Direct insolation is equal to the solar irradiance above the atmosphere minus the atmospheric losses due to absorption and scattering.  While the solar irradiance above the atmosphere varies with the Earth-Sun distance and solar cycles, the losses depend on the time of day (length of light's path through the atmosphere depending on the Solar elevation angle), cloud cover, moisture content, and other impurities.

Business risks: The term business risk refers to the possibility of inadequate profits or even losses due to uncertainties e.g., changes in tastes, preferences of consumers, strikes, increased competition, change in government policy, obsolescence etc . Every business organization contains various risk elements while doing the business.  Business risks implies uncertainty in profits or danger of loss and the events that could pose a risk due to some unforeseen events in future, which causes business to fail.

Ganga Rathore of Marwar: Rao Ganga Ji Rathore (reigned 1515–1532) was a sixteenth century ruler of Marwar.  He was the grandson of Suja.  Rao Ganga assisted Rana Sanga in his campaigns but did not personally lead the armies, he instead sent his sons to assist the Rana against the Sultans of India.  This was due to the rivalry between the states of Marwar and Mewar.  During the Battle of Khanwa the rao sent 7,000 Rathor Cavaliers under his son Maldeo Rathore.  The Rathor contingent along with the Sisodiyas and other Rajputs suffered heavy losses due to the betrayal by the Tomar king Silhadi

Supporting paragraphs: Shoplifting Shrinkage (accounting)
Answer: increase prices