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Ever stolen from a supermarket self-checkout machine? • Page 2
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RichDC 9,177 posts
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minky-kong 14,787 posts
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Registered 13 years agoHad pricing errors in my favour a few times that I see as a karmic reward, and when I've forgotten to bring a bag with me I may have "forgotten" to scan the new bag into the checkout.
Never done the "scan expensive fruit through as potatoes" thieving though. -
Globalmeltdown 1,061 posts
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Registered 12 years agoYes -
Rogueywon 12,387 posts
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Registered 16 years agonudistpete wrote:
Yeah, this all gets taken into account. Supermarket self-checkout was one of the first really visible customer-facing bits of automation. The costs of implementing it are fairly high - they require substantial fitting works to the store, a lot of new cabling, plus the costs of the machines themselves and maintenance.
Rogueywon wrote:
You also have to take into account the cost of the machines, the maintenance (and I can imagine this is expensive given the amount of broken down ones you see in the wild, inevitable software upgrades, not to mention those scales will need calibrating at least yearly) and employee(s) needed to clean up after the customers/deal with authorisations/unexpected items.
It takes quite a lot of petty theft to offset the saving from reducing headcount by 1.
But once a store has been converted to use a significant number of them, my understanding is that the staff savings are significant enough that you get your money back in 2-3 years. As commercial payback periods go, that's lightning-fast. -
fontgeeksogood 12,913 posts
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Registered 3 years agoI've never done this but I quite often go into a store to fuck some of the sexier cauliflowers. I never buy them though - I don't like the taste. -
elstoof 28,125 posts
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Registered 16 years agoDo you draw surprised faces on them -
Vortex808 15,593 posts
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Registered 13 years agofontgeeksogood wrote:
Pity old Mrs Smith taking back her violated caulifower because it's leaking white fluid.
I've never done this but I quite often go into a store to fuck some of the sexier cauliflowers. I never buy them though - I don't like the taste. -
fontgeeksogood 12,913 posts
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Registered 3 years agoelstoof wrote:
Sometimes. Not the ones who are CLEARLY into it.
Do you draw surprised faces on them -
Syrette 51,181 posts
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Registered 19 years agoNope.
All I've ever stolen from a shop was a couple of demo discs back in the day.
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fontgeeksogood 12,913 posts
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Registered 3 years agoSyrette wrote:
Christ! How skinny is your dick?
Nope.
All I've ever stolen from a shop was a couple of demo discs back in the day. -
elstoof 28,125 posts
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Registered 16 years agofontgeeksogood wrote:
Hard to draw a neat line in marker on a cauliflower, they end up looking a bit like Katie Hopkins in my experience
elstoof wrote:
Sometimes. Not the ones who are CLEARLY into it.
Do you draw surprised faces on them -
THFourteen 54,987 posts
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Registered 16 years agoNo.
Not intentionally anyway.
Self-checkout machines are great as i dont have to interact with anyone and can keep my headphones in. But when the bagging weight scanner is on it REALLY fucking irritates me. PLACE ITEM IN BAGGING AREA PLACE ITEM IN BAGGING AREA
IT IS IN THE FUCKING BAGGING AREA YOU FUCKING SHITTY AI -
Rogueywon 12,387 posts
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Registered 16 years ago@THFourteen Unexpected item in bagging area. -
fontgeeksogood 12,913 posts
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Registered 3 years agoelstoof wrote:
You have to be careful what their faces look like, in case you 'Lee Chapman' them into smush
fontgeeksogood wrote:
Hard to draw a neat line in marker on a cauliflower, they end up looking a bit like Katie Hopkins in my experience
elstoof wrote:
Sometimes. Not the ones who are CLEARLY into it.
Do you draw surprised faces on them -
Apparently the Amazon self service supermarket that uses a bazillion cameras and face recognition to charge your Amazon account for things you take off the shelf doesn't even have a system for rectifying things you haven't been charged for as they consider the losses to inconsequential to worry about.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/22/amazon-go-grocery-store-opened-and-we-accidentally-stole-a-yogurt.html
"We packed a shopping bag full of cookies, snap peas and Amazon-branded drinkware — all of which appeared on a virtual receipt moments later. But a single-serve Siggi's yogurt cup was noticeably dropped from the list.
We promptly confessed to Amazon, and VP of Amazon Go Gianna Puerini in return told us not to worry about it, and said that it's an extremely rare error.
"First and foremost, enjoy the yogurt on us," Puerini said. "It happens so rarely that we didn't even bother building in a feature for customers to tell us it happened. So thanks for being honest and telling us. I've been doing this a year and I have yet to get an error. So we've tried to make it super easy on the rare occasion that does happen either to remove it or enjoy breakfast on us." -
Mola_Ram 26,187 posts
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Registered 9 years agoTonka wrote:
So... we should all steal more, to force employers to hire people to stop us from stealing things?
Mola_Ram wrote:
Plenty of times. I've bought kilos of that expensive "Nature candy" stuff (dried bananas and chocolate covered nuts etc) and weighed it in as potatoes.
You know, the whole business where you get something that has a high per-kilo price, and weigh it as a bunch of bananas or something. Ever done that? I haven't, but it is apparently quite common.
It's my way to fight the robots that are stealing our jobs. If the rich store owner cared about his stuff he could pay someone to keep an eye on things. -
Rogueywon 12,387 posts
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Registered 16 years agoMola_Ram wrote:
A nice thought, perhaps, but there's a flaw in the logic which can be summarised as "automatic flamethrower turrets linked to RFID trackers".
So... we should all steal more, to force employers to hire people to stop us from stealing things? -
Mola_Ram 26,187 posts
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Registered 9 years agoDo supermarkets over the pond use RFID? The technology is here in some places (eg. libraries), but supermarkets are still all barcode. -
Rogueywon 12,387 posts
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Registered 16 years ago@Mola_Ram Only ever seen barcode in the US, though Walmart have been making noises about RFID for years. -
Mola_Ram 26,187 posts
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Registered 9 years agoIt might be a good thing to use eventually (imagine how fast checkout would go if you could just plonk your shopping bags on a scanning pad or something), but RFID tags are still probably a mite too expensive to warrant attaching them to perishable goods. -
RelaxedMikki 3,214 posts
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Registered 11 years agoI haven't stolen from an automated checkout.
I did once stick two 650ml bottles of beer in my pants and woddle out of the local co-op with one of them slipping down the leg of my track suit bottoms.
I was really drunk and, in retrospect, the cashier clearly noticed. She's really nice and I think she took pity on me. (I am in there all the time and it was a total one off). 😳 -
Fake_Blood 11,093 posts
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Registered 12 years ago6 pack of coke, has a barcode on the bottom for the six pack, but if you turn a can so it’s barcode is visible through the hole of the shrink wrap you can just scan one can but it looks like you scanned the whole 6 pack.
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elstoof 28,125 posts
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Registered 16 years agoAn old flat mate of mine used to walk into the supermarket and put a magazine under his arm as if he had it all along then pay for his regular shopping with the sweet feeling of theft in plain sight of the cashier. I’ve never stolen myself though because theft is wrong -
THFourteen 54,987 posts
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Registered 16 years agoRogueywon wrote:
Sweet jesus.
@THFourteen Unexpected item in bagging area.
Woe betide anyone who tries to use their own bag, or GASP, tries to use an additional bag because their initial one was full
getting the shakes just thinking about it -
"Unexpected item in bagging area." is what i shout when I ejaculate on the missus.
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