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Ive never been a thief in my life but how fun is it to steal something small in the self checkout ?! Just "forgetting" to pay and leaving. Its so much fun!
You're the reason stores have to raise prices to cover "slip". We all pay for thieves.
i was at the drugstore the other day in line with some stuff and grabbed a usb charger by the register
paid for the stuff and totally forgot i had that charger in my hand until i was walkin out the door
I wasn't kidding when I said pay! Now you'll pay the ultimate price!
*electrocutes the thief*
when krogers first came out with those self scan machines in about 2008 my friend Cruz and a few other dudes would go out at like 2AM and use to have fake IDs and Cruz would grab 2 cases of beer and with a pocket knife would cut out a hole in the box so when he scanned it through the checkout he scanned the bar code on a beer and not the bar code on the case. This would make it ring up as a 6 pack. And I took them every other night for about 3 weeks until the guy said "it rang up as a 6 pack" so cruz said he would put it back and just walked a circle around and stole them😂. They knew what we were doing and were saying weird shit like "security line 4" we knew they didnt have no damn security. Some old lady was like STOP!!! And then this nerdy beta male started running at cruz I had already got the car and was waiting and the beta chased him away. We found around the back hiding in a ditch still with the cases in his hands.
I'm surprised that trick was possible.
As far as I can recall, from the time self-scanning first appeared in the UK, after scanning you then had to put the item on a bagging platform that could sense the weight of the item. If there's a mismatch, you can't scan anything else, a red light starts flashing over the station and the employee monitoring the area comes over to check what's going on.
A few years ago, handheld scanners appeared which allow you to scan and bag as you shop. People using that system are randomly checked by an employee coming over and rummaging around to pull out a few items to check if you've scanned them. If they discover you've missed something, the whole damn trolley gets unloaded and scanned again. After that, you're much more likely to get checked - sometimes for a few random things, sometimes for everything - until the algorithm decides either that you're just occasionally absentminded or a thief. If the latter, you're blocked from using the scanner ever again.
I think that used to be specific to the UK. I'm originally from England and was surprised when I moved to Australia and found that plenty of places had selfcheckouts that didn't measure the weight of your items.
Most of them have changed over now to the UK system, but only in the last couple of years.
I dont know if they just didnt have weighers on the bags yet but there was an employee who was watching us everynight and we would try to talk to him while we did it so he wouldnt notice anything. Like I said for a few weeks we got away with it until one day he said "wait its not ringing up right. Thats not a 6 pack". Cruz said "oh wow im sorry about that let me put it back" which was probably a huge red flag to him.