personal shoplifter

personal shoplifter
n.
A thief hired by an individual to shoplift goods.
Example Citation:
In a high-profile trial in St. Paul, Minn., reported in News of the Weird in 1997, members of the well-to-do family of Gerald and Judy Dick were charged with hiring a personal shoplifter to steal expensive goods from Dayton's department store. ... In February 1999, the Dicks' son Jim, 34, who had been accused in 1997 of paying a shoplifter $ 800 for $ 6,000 worth of Dayton's clothing and who now works as a professional model, was hired for Dayton's new spring fashions advertising campaign, apparently without Dayton's executives realizing it.
— Chuck Shepard, "Real model no model," The Times Union, April 1, 1999
Earliest Citation:
A well-to-do dentist and his family have been charged with receiving stolen goods after allegedly employing their own personal shoplifter to steal designer clothes and crystal, police said on Friday.
— "Minn. dentist, family charged with having personal shoplifter," Chicago Tribune, December 6, 1996
Notes:
The phrase personal shoplifter — a play on personal shopper — appears to be losing steam since I couldn't find any media citations newer than the one above. Let's hope that's because people have learned that shoplifting-for-hire (the offical police term for this crime) is just a little on the stupid side.
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