- Some shops don't like gangrpers/criminals, I don't really need to explain this
- Shopkeepers have certain criteria that they have to ensure that their workers are fit for the position, just make a good application
let me answer it as a shopkeeper;
1)Nobody from the shopkeepers will hire people with a huge criminal record or even that they know the people will buy weapons with that/ in general I cant to imagine my char hires someone who killing people while my character knows that they killing people. In addition, gangrpers are toxic(not everyone, the dominant groups are mostly toxic as I hired people from Akihito clan for example) and it's really not nice for me as a player to hire people who toxic
2) All the shopkeeper are saves the stock in chests, it happened for me 3 times that my employees stole from me and it's really not cool so I didnt hire a lot of people and u will be able to see that in most of the shops(For example, KimiNoUso's shop and ImKana's shop). Its hard for shopkeepers to trust everyone while we dealing with stealing items in a value of 350k in my case.