If Best Buy catches the thief and has them arrested, it is only a misdemeanor. All these thiefs do is not show up for the court trial, wasting everybody’s money to prosecute the case.
In these times, the state legislatures should drop the $950 limit for misdemeanors to $100 and increase the bail amount to $150,000 (the amount they make for a year of drug selling).
I would find out who they are peddling the stolen items to. Whoever are the fences, have them charged with multi-count felonies and put them away for a long long time.
I was thinking, why not put tracking devices in the purses and watch where they go. If they are at a home, have a search warrant at the door at 4 AM with SWAT locked and loaded.