Seems like Apple was probably selected for the class action suit due to being a prominent and hugely wealthy company (just like Google and Amazon with respectiv

Seems like Apple was probably selected for the class action suit due to being a prominent and hugely wealthy company (just like Google and Amazon with respective labor related activities targeting them). And that was a good strategy, because here we are discussing it. As a society with high and growing inequality the US is structured in a way that incentivizes retail theft, so the frequency of this kind of theft isn't going down anytime soon. The question is who should bear the cost of it. This has always been framed as an issue of immorality of retail workers, so the cost has borne by them in the form of lost time/wages or maltreatment by police or security services. This is of course a false and incomplete framing, because it's arguably more immoral for a company to steal time / wages from all workers in this case when the product theft is only committed by a few. What is the loss due to theft of a smartphone vs. the cost to the worker who will now double pay in lost wages and the time for extra child care caused by the delay in leaving work? Framed economically instead it's just the cost of doing business in our society, just as with credit card fraud. Going forward, it looks like it will be borne by the retailers and ultimately, their customers, which is far better than it being borne by workers.