Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-10317392-20130906010815/@comment-4010415-20130912171900

It would attract attention if he was getting dust directly from the SDC, so instead, he steals dust from shops. Maybe from dust shops that get their dust from other companies, with the side effect of hurting those shops' business and profits, maybe even causing some to have to shut down after repeated robberies. The shop owner can't afford to keep restocking only for the dust to be stolen. They're just losing money. So, those other companies start gradually losing business with shops.

After all, if he targeted the companies directly instead of just targeting the shops that buy from those companies, he'd have to go through all the trouble of staging robberies and attacks on the SDC just to avoid suspicion. It'd be weird if people keep stealing directly from the other companies but not the SDC. That, and companies probably have much better security, even on their trains (as we've seen), than dust shops.