Posted on 09/24/2024 6:17:13 AM PDT by Bon of Babble
Police detained the softball coach at the supermarket and found that $67 worth of items, including asparagus and ham, had not been scanned.
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Good for you.
At first I was like yeah right
Not so sure honestly
I’ve never ever done that
But she is a girl
And she was baked prolly
Exactly.
Somehow the corporations pawned duties off on the consumer for free. And we pay for it with our time sans compensation. Grounds for lawsuit if you ask me. Truly forgetting to scan something is their fault for foisting these stupid cashierless checkouts on their customers.
And the sheeple just take it in stride.
Maybe a year after that, you couldn't grab the hand scanner in those lanes without a Costco employee brow-beating you over such an action.
Personally, I like using self-checkout when I don't have a lot of items. It gives me a chance to double-check the cost of items since stores have become lax in posting prices (maybe because prices have been increasing rapidly in recent years).
Funny thing, I have made zero scanning mistakes using Costco's self-checkout (when allowed or I get there first) in the 3+ years of doing do. Conversely, I have found mistakes on two separate check-outs that were done by Costco employees.
I know a banker who this happened to.
Very outstanding respected individual.
There was a ligitimate change in his medications.
And the man caught him on camera skipping items.
Banker doesn’t even remember doing it.
Court expunged his record.
Bank put him on leave and then let him retire.
Of course, if you’re all weed weed up and on crack or meth and you try to lift asparagus and ham,, well real world consequences.
The pot yeah
But folks don’t take zofran for a buzz
It’s the new phenegran
Staved off nausea
Here in Music City shoplifting is on par or not worse than simple possession of two THC vape pens
And even if you’re lucky enough to get a cashier, you still end up bagging the groceries yourself.
Some people use the banana code for all fruit ,LOL
My reaction, exactly. $67 bucks is not a whoops, it’s shoplifting.
“When I want somethin’ man, I don’t wanna pay for it!”
The title is misleading. She was stopped for failing to scan the grocery items but was arrested when they found drugs in her purse. Then the charges were dropped. It seems like the police did not overreact here. My bet is that if she just failed to scan the items, they would have told her to pay for them and let her go. Her life seems to be "destroyed" as a result of a personal downward spiral, not one incident.
I don’t think his life has been destroyed forever.
Haha dad joke
:)
Don’t know how they do things back east but in Colorado the scanners beep to let you know an item was read.
It wasn’t just asparagus and ham, it was
$67 worth of items, including asparagus and ham, had not been scanned
That’s not just a “forgot to scan” issue.
After this big technology push of the last 10 years and installation of self-checkouts, I have read articles that Walmarts and supermarkets in some urban areas are removing them.
The temptation to "forget" to scan $67 worth of items is too great and occurs too frequently, to the point they are losing big money to theft in some stores.
> Never use the self-checkout. <
Yep, for the reason you said. Plus there are people in our society who - for whatever reason - can find no better work than checkout clerk. Better that they put in a day’s work than sit at home collecting welfare.
To give them employment, I’ll gladly pay a few cents more per item.
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