They shoplift tide because it's expensive and they can know they can sell it quickly for cash. They don't intend on using it, they don't know how.

A crow is more intelligent in the shiny things it picks up. Don't fuck with the crows.

They use it as currency to buy drugs in a roundabout way. Even crackheads living in hotels and trap houses need to do laundry, so they sell the stolen detergent for cash and then go buy fentanyl.