Shoplifting 101...

[Provost Harrison]

Has anyone noticed (I don't know whether this applies anywhere outside of the UK) but some supermarkets, well Sainsbury's anyway, have started these self-service checkouts. Surely these are just an opportunity for dodgy individuals (people like Dauphin ) to just maybe 'mis-swipe' without getting caught. Or is it that my faith in humanity should be restored forthwith.

I don't believe they don't get exploited more than they do, or is the saving of having no-one working on the checkout (as minimal as checkout assistant pay is ) compensating for any loss?

[alva]

Is the only reason you don't steal, the (%) chance of getting caught?

[Sava]

They usually have an attendant monitoring things at the self-checkout aisles.

Plus, there are cameras.

The self-checkout things also have weight sensors that detect when you put an item in your bag. I know they get fussy even when you do things properly. God knows what would happen if you tried to sneak something past it.

I was with my dad once and some lady was giving us a hard time about some bottles of coke we bought, saying we scanned them wrong. She was saying we only did three, when I scanned all four. That dumbass was looking at the macaroni and cheese I bought (3 of them) instead of the coke. She started accusing us of stuff and then my dad starting getting all hysterical. We called her the "self-checkout nazi".

After she found out she was the one who was wrong, she made up this excuse and said, "Oh, my screen doesn't scroll down all the way... I didn't see it."

GEE, YOU DIDN'T SEE THAT THE ITEM SAYS "MAC AND CHEESE" YOU DUMB****!?!?! And on top of that, what kind of 6 pack of bottled coke costs like 79 cents?

dumbass...

maybe that's why you are 35 years old and working at Jewel, moron

so yeah, I think it would be stupid to try and steal stuff when they are already overly paranoid about people who do stuff legitimately...

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Sava
We called her the "self-checkout nazi".

HILARIOUS!

[Jon Miller]

I have seen people put in the wrong item... and so save a buck or so...

but if you think about it, they need less people, so as long as the loss is less than $10 an hour, they probably do OK (maybe even more than $10 an hour, you have to remember taxes and benefits and all that)

JM

[Az]

HILARIOUS!

[Footie Mad]

Originally posted by Sava


GEE, YOU DIDN'T SEE THAT THE ITEM SAYS "MAC AND CHEESE" YOU DUMB****!?!?! And on top of that, what kind of 6 pack of bottled coke costs like 79 cents?

dumbass...

Wow 79 cents for three servings of macaroni and cheese that's pretty cheap.

[Sava]

Originally posted by Footie Mad


Wow 79 cents for three servings of macaroni and cheese that's pretty cheap.

well

that figure came from my ass

I don't remember the exact price

I know the individual packages are under a dollar...

all 3 together weren't 79 cents...

each one was around 79 cents (IIRC)...

it's Kraft brand, Three Cheese mac and cheese

good for lunch or something... and cheap

not very healthy though

[Verto]

Re: Shoplifting 101...

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
Has anyone noticed (I don't know whether this applies anywhere outside of the UK) but some supermarkets, well Sainsbury's anyway, have started these self-service checkouts. Surely these are just an opportunity for dodgy individuals (people like Dauphin ) to just maybe 'mis-swipe' without getting caught. Or is it that my faith in humanity should be restored forthwith.

I don't believe they don't get exploited more than they do, or is the saving of having no-one working on the checkout (as minimal as checkout assistant pay is ) compensating for any loss?

I think the view for SCOT machines are more that they are one step in the natural progression from having paid cashiers, to making customers do their own ****, like we have with self-serve gas stations. Right now they are pretty shaky.

WRT shoplifting, the level of difficulty is dependent solely on the attentiveness and competence of the attendant. Yes, the system knows how much weight to expect, and will put up specific alerts if the weight is a mismatch, and especially if the weight is exactly DOUBLE what it should be, but a lot of times the attendant will simply clear the warning because the majority of the time, it is caused by consumer idiocy and not an attempt to shoplift.

[Jaguar]

Originally posted by Sava
dumbass...

maybe that's why you are 35 years old and working at Jewel, moron

And where are you working, sir?

[Sava]

nowhere

[Sava]

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I'm not typing all that again

[Whaleboy]

Originally posted by Az

HILARIOUS!

[Az]

It was a nice touch by Ludd, I must admit.

[KrazyHorse]

Yeah, one of the few times he's ever gotten me to laugh.