Mistakes happen when untrained people are employed to do work.
Me accidentally buying a PS5 for $8 by weighing it as onions
Expensive onions
People used specially crafted coupons to get free Xboxes back when Xbox 360 was released.
It worked really well for a few weeks, based on the news stories at the time. There are now checks to prevent this from happening.
For free.
Idk I've always just considered a way to go about my business quicker and with less need for human contact. It's a plus for me
There was a time where getting the products off the shelves was the job of a clerk at the desk. You'd walk into the store, give the clerk your list and they'd get all the things and put them into a bag for you.
Policies and practices evolve.
The fact that things like this never occur to me as possibilities goes to show just how naive I am about how the world works
You sound like a good person who returns their shopping cart
For some reason not returning the shopping cart makes me angrier than the meme about abusing self checkout.
I am not a lazy bones.
It's all fun and games until you are banned from the local grocery stores .Loss prevention is pretty good these days. It's the Internet though, they really aren't stealing. It's internet tough guy shit.
I have had the thought when buying 2 donuts from the bakery section I could ring it up as 1, but then I realize that it might lead to trouble just to save maybe a dollar at most.
look I'm all for sticking it to the Man and stealing if you're actually starving but a lot of you people are just Petty thieves
what about sticking it to the man because fuck him
Correct. Still not sorry.
Most businesses are too, so why should we be the bigger man?
If they can't handle Capitalism, which includes theft, they should try to change it.
You ever buy the cheap wine, pull off the barcode and bring it back to the store, then buy the fancy expensive stuff with the cheap barcode over the top. They never notice, wine bottles all look the same to them.
c/unethicallifehacks
That and coupon fraud. Remember when people were walking out of the store with free xboxes using coupons they made?
They watch that a little more carefully now.
The term for that is "slap tagging."
When I ran the Marine Department at a major outdoor retailer, I was always fighting the warehouse team because they'd just roll out a high-end sonar unit in a cart for my people to stock and walk away, and there were people who would slap that them as shitty units from the same company, and the cashier wouldn't notice the difference between a Garmin 4CV (about $100) and a Garmin 8612 (about $5000).
It's strange how the disproportionality of wealth makes theft seem ok.
In this case it doesn't, you're stealing luxury items that are playing a huge huge role in water consumption. It's like 91 liters of water per day per tree.
And an academic study focusing on global implications for water scarcity from the growth in avocado production says that that growing avocado requires “four times more water than the production of a kilo of oranges and ten times of that of a kilo of tomato”.
Its not that. It's people taking some payment for having to do the store's job for them.
Don't feel bad, you earned it. Imagine how it's cheaper for companies to pay god knows how much on anti-theft measures instead of paying a living wage to cashiers.
ps. You should never use self checkout. We've all been tricked into thinking we can do it better/faster ourselves.
I use self checkout because I don't want to fake a conversation with the cashier.
I use self-checkout because I have a "20% off your entire cart" coupon that I don't want to give up. When I scan it, I just put a random piece of paper into the slot so the machine registers that I put something in there. In this way, I kind of am getting paid to scan my own groceries.
Well, I'm a former cashier and I absolutely do it faster and better than the high school seniors they underpay at my local store. Also, I caught one kid double scanning some of my stuff once. Not sure if it was intentional or just lack of attention, but after that I definitely started using self checkout exclusively.
ps. You should never use self checkout. We’ve all been tricked into thinking we can do it better/faster ourselves.
Fuck off, it's faster for me and I vastly prefer it. Quicker, less need to deal with other people and there's no rush to bag your stuff. If you don't want to use self-checkout then don't.
I go to self checkout because my closest supermarket has one cash register and the queue is always like 6 old people
The grocery store should also plan out my meals, drive me to their store, put the items in the cart for me, and then scan them all for me. Also they need to drive me back home instead of outsourcing that to me, and then they need to cook supper for me or they're just cheaping out.
What a fucking brain rot take.
I agree, too much fucking time on their hands. Outrage on the simplest shit
the fuckers have cameras and "AI" detection here, if it looks and sees something it doesn't think is a banana the whole thing stops and signals a staff over. doing groceries is seriously more fucked than going through airport security now.
fuck Woolworths and coles
That's why I bag bananas and apples, weigh only 1 or 2 and have the rest of the bag off the side. As close to "on the house" as possible
There is a DVR product called SaleGuard that can detect this from existing or integrated camera systems. It tends to work fairly well.
I mean, they're not gonna nab you for apples unless they get enough of a rolling tally on what you took to actually prosecute usually. That's what most corps do.
Organic veg looks just like regular veg. Just saying
Wonder how advanced it is. Maybe you could get away with avocado as loose potatoes as the shape is closer.
colour probably matters too. you could probably get away with something in mushroom bags (brown paper bag) but of course only worth it for things worth more than mushrooms
Yeah you definitely shouldn't ring up pine nuts as de-shelled sunflower seeds, or use the scan-one add-three to your bag technique at self-checkout 👀
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Crazy how all bananas grow with the same code on their sticker...
If you see the slow motion/time lapse of the sticker blossoming, it's life reaffirming. Fucking beautiful.
The ones from NCR use the camera-based 7879/7895 scales with computer vision to check that you aren't doing this. It'll take a picture and require an override where it shows that picture to the attendant.
It's called produce assurance.
Just scan a banana as an avacado right after. So they are both on your receipt.
I accidentally bought a bag of avocados for the price of 1 avocado at self checkout. I couldn't find the bag of avocados in the menu so I just selected avocado in the menu.
It turns out the bag of avocados come with a barcode to scan it 🤦
There are different types of bread? Oh there is organic and cheap?
Wow sorry but if they outsource even the low income jobs they are so evil they dont deserve anything but that
My buddy used to do that with steaks. He'd scan it as pork but it's was steak inside the package. Good times!
Ricky?
Geee, I wonder what would happen if they paid someone to run your products through and then give you a total at the end so that you may pay....
How are billionaires that fuckjng stupid? Oh yeah. They can afford to be.
If I'm working as a checkout clerk, then I need to be paid minimum wage. My minimum shift is also the mandated three hours.
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Next year we cry about living in a “food desert”
Nobody lives in a food desert (not sure why you felt the need to do scare quotes there) because of customers ringing up avocados as bananas.
I guess overall theft can be a burden to stores so areas where that happen more often (poorer areas I'd guess) are more burdened by that and less profitable. But of course it's not just because of a singular thing.
Why do grocery stores close down in neighborhoods leaving food deserts? “They’re not profitable”
This is 1000% the same meme as the “States rights to do what motherfucker?”
You do know how much water is wasted to produce avocados, right? 💧
You do know how much water is wasted to produce comments like this, right?
Real talk, a lot of keyboard environmentalists would be surprised to know how much electricity the innocent little internet uses.
Almonds?
No, avocados. Try to keep up, mate.
You can take my almonds and my beef, but not avocados. That’s the line.
I accept your almonds and beef.
If I stop buying them, will that solve a problem?
Did a bit of googling. Found this article:
https://www.greenmatters.com/p/avocado-environmental-impactLooks like the main issue is that they tend to be grown in areas that may be prone to drought, so there's a concern that they may deprive the community of water.
To a degree, yes.
