shopdropping

English

Etymology

shop +‎ dropping, modelled on shoplifting.

Noun

shopdropping (uncountable)

1. The practice of covertly placing objects on display in a shop
   • 2007 December 24, Ian Urbina, “Anarchists in the Aisles? Stores Provide a Stage”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Otherwise known as reverse shoplifting, shopdropping involves surreptitiously putting things in stores, rather than illegally taking them out, and the motivations vary.

Synonyms

• droplifting