The Banana Trick and Other Acts of Self-Checkout Thievery (2018)
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#2I did once abuse the self-checkout myself, but I felt justified:
The tag on the shelf said the crackers were buy-one-get-one-free. But when I rang them both up, it charged for both. Instead of calling an attendant, I just voided one of them but walked out with it. I'm basically a criminal mastermind.
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#3I did once abuse the self-checkout myself, but I felt justified: The tag on the shelf said the crackers were buy-one-get-one-free. But when I rang them both up, it charged for both. Instead of calling an attendant, I just voided one of them but walked out with it. I'm basically a criminal mastermind.
It's not worth it. Imagine if they posted video of you on their FB. Many wouldn't believe your justification. You should have just voided both of them and left them there.
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#4Funny timing, because a GOP candidate looking to unseat Ilhan Omar, was just busted for serial shoplifting at a Target.
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#5Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16292254
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#6I did once abuse the self-checkout myself, but I felt justified: The tag on the shelf said the crackers were buy-one-get-one-free. But when I rang them both up, it charged for both. Instead of calling an attendant, I just voided one of them but walked out with it. I'm basically a criminal mastermind.
It's not worth it. Imagine if they posted video of you on their FB. Many wouldn't believe your justification. You should have just voided both of them and left them there.
> Imagine if they posted video of you on their FB
For crackers? I think people would be more upset with the store than the shopper.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not worth it. Imagine if they posted video of you on their FB. Many wouldn't believe your justification. You should have just voided both of them and left them there.
> Imagine if they posted video of you on their FB For crackers? I think people would be more upset with the store than the shopper.
The people will likely rally around the poor shopper being oppressed by the soulless corporate entity.
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#8Harder to do with human cashiers, I imagine this is a wholly budgeted phenomenon
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#9I'm not sure if the money my supermarket saves by getting rid of humans (and the humans' incomes) translates to cheaper groceries for me.
I'd believe it if there were somehow a fine for using a human checkout. But there isn't.
So every once in a while four bell pepper somehow scan as three. Accidents happen, full plausible deniability.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Imagine if they posted video of you on their FB For crackers? I think people would be more upset with the store than the shopper.
The people will likely rally around the poor shopper being oppressed by the soulless corporate entity.
Imagine if stores posted all their surveillance videos online. Creepy!