Around here the excuse of the guys selling hot stereo equipment to random shoppers in the parking lot was "It fell off a truck, so now we cant sell it because the box is scuffed"My ex-wife was from Jersey City. "It fell off a train" was her way to say something was stolen.
Maybe bubble turrets?
This has always been a thing and now it's more of a thing because there are no penalties to it. Find some applicable federal charges for interfering with interstate commerce and send some of the thieves to federal pen for a few years it'll likely return to it's pre-stupid-times levels.