Scam ??

[transam]

Dunno

Went into sainsburys tonight bought a few items
Self check out scanned them went to pay and it came to £30 ish

Thought that was a bit steep so pressed for a receipt don’t normally bother

Transpires some one had scanned there items and than just walked out ( shop lifter ) I use the same scanner and ended up picking up there tab

How the f ck does that happen

My items should have been £10.80 p

 

[Wayners]

Something odd there as scanner won't work unless the correct weight in on scales/bagging area.
I think the shop worker had overrided the scales without clearing items. We should always see the start screen but anyone could miss that and get caught. I think it's happened to me the same as you. It's very annoying!

I always use a hand scanner even for one item. I like the way you see the number of items scanned which should match what you have on shipping list if you stick to it..

 

[blup]

People come up with ever more ingenious ways of shoplifting, did you not notice the running total? Years ago I was paying for a large trolley at the checkout when someone walked past and swapped it with their smaller trolley that they’d paid for, and walked out of the shop. A shop worker caught them just as they were loading the car.

 

[motorbiking]

I noticed the other day that you can remove your items from the scanned area before you pay.

 

[diy_fun_uk]

Folk abusing these systems p1sses me off as it could encourage retailers to do away with them. I love self check-out and would hate (and I mean hate) having to start queuing at the check-out again, to have someone chuck my items down the conveyor at 100mph.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

Retailers just accept that some will nick stuff. Just as long as the amount they lose is less than the cost of minimum wage for someone to work there they'll carry on.

It's just numbers.

And... the higher the minimum wage, the more stuff needs to get nicked before they'll employ people. Socialism in action!

 

[Murdochcat]

Our Sainsbury’s at the self service tills you need a receipt to get out or tail gate somebody

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

Our Sainsbury’s at the self service tills you need a receipt to get out or tail gate somebody

Then you live in a trashy area. They don't put the prison gates in the nice areas!

 

[nero44]

Our Sainsbury’s at the self service tills you need a receipt to get out or tail gate somebody

same, but it's such a high traffic area the gates are practically almost always open... so quite easy to get out w/out... but then .. shoplifting in central London.. I think nobody is surprised...

 

[blup]

Socialism in action!

Don’t forget Capitalism in action. Destruction of whole communities by withdrawing subsidies and support for the coal steel and other manufacturing industries, with hundreds of thousands of jobs lost, real jobs not minimum wage.

 

[morqthana]

I love self check-out

I refuse to use them. You have to wait for an employee to OK alcohol purchases. They throw a wobbly if you try to re-pack bags. I can't achieve anywhere near the same scanning rate as employees on the tills can.

And using them takes someone's job away.

 

[Jurassicspark]

Thought that was a bit steep so pressed for a receipt don’t normally bother

Just as how you don’t bother with printing a receipt, the same principle applied to this situation.

Transpires some one had scanned there items and than just walked out ( shop lifter )

Aren’t shop lifters the ones who knowingly steal things, without paying?

If he had ran away, scanned the items, never bothered with paying, the self-checkout machine would never had let you proceed. It would have asked for the item to be placed back on the counter, which was supposedly scanned, according to you.

I use the same scanner and ended up picking up there tab

So how is that possible?

How the f ck does that happen

It can’t happen.

If, according to you, he was a shoplifter, and ran away with the items.

My items should have been £10.80p

Anyways - Lesson of the day: pay attention to the ending balance, shown on the screen.

 

[Jurassicspark]

I noticed the other day that you can remove your items from the scanned area before you pay.

Really?

I’ve always had to wait for the employee to come over and scan their “fancy” fob on the machine.

 

[Jurassicspark]

I love self check-out and would hate (and I mean hate) having to start queuing at the check-out again,

What time difference is saved by queuing for a self checkout machine to become available versus queuing in line at the till?

 

[johnny2007]

What time difference is saved by queuing for a self checkout machine to become available versus queuing in line at the till?

At least 1 and half minutes.
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