Uh, you didn't actually read the article, did you? If you did, you'd understand that yes, it was shoplifting. He was apprehended after the fact, at which point

Uh, you didn't actually read the article, did you? If you did, you'd understand that yes, it was shoplifting. He was apprehended after the fact, at which point the shoplifting was discovered. When asked if he had anything else, he replied that he had a knife, but didn't actually show it. In other words, there was no violence committed or even threatened in the course of the crime. There was no violence committed or credibly threatened after the fact. There was simply a statement, which could easily be seen as a confession, that he had a knife in his possession.