If someone at the store gave you permission to conceal the items, then you’d have the authority to do so and the crime of shoplifting has not been committed. For example, if you were speaking with a store clerk and they told you, you could go ahead and put a video game in your jacket pocket because you didn’t have a cart and then take it to the cashier. Before you get to the cashier you’re apprehended by a law enforcement officer. Because a person working at the store gave you the permission to conceal the merchandise then that would mean you had been authorized to conceal and you had not committed the crime of shoplifting. However, if the store clerk later denies that they ever said that, or the camera shows you never spoke with a store associate, the store may still have a shoplifting concealment of goods case against you.