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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
Be the change you want to see in the world! The shopping cart/parking lot affects us all. Walmart losing money on every avocado doesn’t bother me at all.
In fact walmart probably doesn’t care at all either, they’ll take electricity over humans any day
A friend of mine told me that when he worked at a grocery store as a teenager that he always liked being tasked with rounding up the grocery carts in the parking lot because he got to go outside and be by himself for a bit. I think about that a lot, but I also return my cart.
I agree with your friend, I’ve been in the same job. But I also return my cart.
Former grocery store teen here. It was nice to get away from customers a little, but then again then you’re stuck in a parking lot with those same customers and now you have to try and avoid getting run over.
I always thought it was nice except for when the weather was terrible like when it was really hot or cold and you were out there with numb hands shoving 30 carts across a snow covered parking lot.
It was only occasionally good
Great, since those carts are returned by good people now, it means they can have a 5 minute break outside in the sun instead.
Damn, now I’m going to think of those kids when I return the cart! Maybe I could like, pile them up real bad in the little hut so they can still get fresh air.
I want to see corporate profits shrink!
Me returning the cart makes a person’s job easier.
Stealing doesn’t affect the workers.
Funfact: Walmart pays the vendors (usually local person who rents their own truck and buys their own stock) on scan data. If it doesn’t scan, Walmart is also not affected.
I return my shopping cart but I couldn’t give a shit less how much Walmart is losing to shoplifters.
“Oh know guys! We only made $28 million in profit this year instead of $29 million! What will we tell our investors who are each worth six times that?”
$28 million
I like your Dr. Evil-esque way of getting the order of magnitude wrong
You’re right, they made ~$150 billion last year, but that’s too much math.
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I am not a lazy bones.
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.
Clerk: “Um, sir, that doesn’t look like a banana. Are you sure you entered the right code?”
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The jig is up. Run
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Apologize profusely
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[Rhetoric: Heroic 15] Convince the clerk you don’t know what fruits are
EVEN 58%
+1 You look terribly frazzled
This is a Red Check. It can not be retried
Rhetoric: [Heroic: Success] “Is this not a banana?” You say in the most genuine tone you can muster
Savior Faire: You may have been caught, but you managed to feign enough innocence to get trouble off your backThe clerk gives a dumbfounded expression
Clerk: “Uhm, no sir, that is an avocado, not a banana”
Half-Light: She is too terrified of your empty skull to properly correct you on thisOh shit I’m gonna replay it again
Encyclopedia: It is in fact *not* a banana. A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa. In some countries, bananas used for cooking may be called “plantains”, distinguishing them from dessert bananas. The fruit is variable in size, color, and firmness, but is usually elongated and curved, with soft flesh rich in starch covered with a rind, which may be green, yellow, red, purple, or brown when ripe. The fruits grow upward in clusters near the top of the plant. Almost all modern edible seedless (parthenocarp) bananas come from two wild species – Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana. The scientific names of most cultivated bananas are Musa acuminata, Musa balbisiana, and Musa × paradisiaca for the hybrid Musa acuminata × M. balbisiana, depending on their genomic constitution. The old scientific name for this hybrid, Musa sapientum, is no longer used.
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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
The grocery stores are as well when there’s record inflation and people struggling and they are all posting record profits.
How do you find that out?
They fucking brag about it on their earnings calls.
Thanks. I was hoping there was some way to verify that.
Different industry but same behavior: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syugb2Q9erY
They are all pretty thoroughly shameless.
“On Tuesday, Conagra Brands—one of the largest consumer packaged goods companies in the U.S.—announced that it had posted a nearly 60% year-over-year profit increase between December 2022 and February 2023.”
https://time.com/6269366/food-company-profits-make-groceries-expensive/
I just googled grocery profits
Ok, how do journalists find that out?
You know, if you really bothered to read the article they actually linked the reports from the company.
If you bothered to read the article, you would know that it doesn’t claim that companies are posting record profits.
what about sticking it to the man because fuck him
Correct. Still not sorry.
I always keep in mind the old adage, if you saw someone stealing food, no you didn’t.
I agree if I was starving I would steal too but a lot of the comments in this thread are talking about stealing things that are just expensive because they’re expensive
Thanks for the heads up. That day, I did not have time or motivation to read the entire thread.
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.
most businesses are not thieves that is such a silly way to look at the world. now if you’re talking about large corporations in large enterprises I would be a little bit more understanding of your statement. when you’re talking small and medium and even large size businesses it’s hardly the case.
Wage theft is significantly more common than petty theft and occurs because the victims often don’t have the ability to fight back.
I see where you’re coming from but you can’t deny that these corporations don’t prey on the very people they employ.
I just said that
It’s strange how the disproportionality of wealth makes theft seem ok.
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 also am particular about how I bag things. I agree with the sentiment of self checkouts being lame and taking jobs and all that jazz, but eh. There’s bigger fish to fry than this one, and many people like it anyway
Same. When I’m forced to go through a cashier because my cart has too many items, I meticulously put items in batches on the conveyor so similar stuff stay together; only for the cashier or bagger to mix them all up in the bags anyway. I try as much as possible to bag them myself but it’s kinda awkward to tell the bagger not to do their job. Or if there’s no bagger, it’s awkward seeing the cashier and the next customer waiting for me to finish bagging so they can start ringing up stuff. It’s self-checkout for me definitely.
The employees where I shop are underpaid and understaffed. They have to be there for the elderly, kids and differently-abled though. I’m happy to give them a break and scan my own shit. Usually they get to just stand around and talk to each other while I do, if they aren’t busy, which makes me feel kind of nice.
LOL companies actually encourage this fake bullshit. It’s called “adding value to the relationship” Bet you didn’t realize that someone putting your canned beans and tampons into paper bags constituted a relationship.
Where I live cashiers don’t bag your stuff. I wouldn’t consider that a default
Yep this depends on the store.
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
Because the companies get free labor. I refuse unless it’s legit rush for something.
I wonder if people were pissed off that they had to go through the shop picking up products instead of having the shopkeeper do that for them.
What’s next? Expecting you to go to the store yourself?
Maybe, but I like being able to shop for myself. I want to look over my produce and meats.
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
“Did I see anyone stealing? No, I was too preoccupied with the dread of not being able to survive in this capitalist world, of course I wouldn’t be paying attention to other people.”
turns towards others “Y’all didn’t see a thief right?” complete silence “You see, officer, nothing happened here. Carry on.”
(Maybe I did see a someone casually put items in their bag, but again, I must’ve forgotten that I ever saw that, because the stress of life and all… 😉)
Well that was cringy even though I agree with the sentiment
It’s because they had to type it out to show how good they are.
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 👀
I too am also a memer
Just scan a banana as an avacado right after. So they are both on your receipt.
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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.
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 🤦
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.
I’m surprised we haven’t gotten “don’t do this they keep track with cameras until they can charge you with a felony” guy in here yet
So has that ever been debunked? I’m curious how such a system would work but it sounds like fearmongering.
The technology exists. It isn’t that difficult to implement facial tracking on security cameras and maintain a file on shoplifters. Even across multiple stores.
I can’t answer your question, but it is certainly plausible.
Hmm that is scary. I guess face recognition isn’t the only factor either. The way you walk is also quite unique apparently. Like the angle of your feet, how high they go, step size etc
Hmm. Not that I’d risk shoplifting or anything but it’s interesting what companies do against it.
