At my store we take plate pictures (+Make/Model/Color) for writing up Alerts for nearby stores, if you take again and we stop you we already have vehicle information. If you manage to get away again it makes it easier for us to give info to police when we have all that. We've gotten a recovery because a cop in a city 20+ minutes north of us recognized the car and plates we gave dispatch and pulled him over. We got all the merch and charged him with civil demand and all that.