Impressive. How?

I find it bizarre that you find that bizarre.

What do you think made them suspect you this time? Did they imply that they knew you had stolen on previous visits?

Thanks for posting about your experience. Good luck with minimizing the repercussions!

Say it louder for the people in the back! Can confirm, GIMP is a super powerful software tool that can accomplish what OP is trying to do. It's both free as in freedom and free as in beer.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

Recommend setting up a liveboot usb with Ubuntu and taking it for a test drive if you aren't familiar with the FLOSS world. It's a wonderful, liberating alternate universe! https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/tutorial-create-a-usb-stick-on-ubuntu

don't. :-(

How'd you get caught?

All good here. Been doing well with small grocery lifts. Hope everyone else is pulling through too. :)

What do you do if you do get a license plate?

Did you do it?

Good job! Glad you made it out okay.

Nice work! How were you sussed? Edit - nm, just saw your other post.

I always aim for boring and nondescript.