Sounds like they got what they deserved. How do you know they were minors? Wal-Mart gets ripped off frequently where I live and you always see the police there. They have a right to protect their property. They are a business who has to pay for their merchandise that they sell like everyone else. If everyone stole a 2 dollar lipstick (lipstick is alot more than that unless it's the dollar store) then it would amount to alot of money. I would much rather see them humiliated and yelled at like they deserved and learn their lesson now than keep up the crime and end up in the big house for years to come later on and have a criminal record follow them around the rest of their days.