Here's the thing Larry and I am going to borrow your retail analogy.

Retail store XYZ in tracking of inventory, identifies that they are losing $100 a month due to theft. So they hire a security guard at $500 per week ($2000 a month), PLUS benefits AND install thousands of dollars in surveillance technology to keep an eye on their employees.

As time goes on, loss of inventory has been reduces in half to $50 per month, at an ongoing cost of several thousand per month and the geniuses running XYZ store declare the their loss prevention strategy a "success".