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1 posted on 04/19/2025 5:39:14 PM PDT by dennisw
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Good to know. Wont be shopping anywhere this is required.


2 posted on 04/19/2025 5:40:43 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Woman banned from every Walmart in America over sneaky self-checkout trick
READ MORE: Urgent warning over new self-checkout scam
By ALICE WRIGHT FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

Published: 15:14 EDT, 13 February 2025 | Updated: 15:14 EDT, 13 February 2025

A Tennessee woman has been banned from every Walmart in the country after an epic shoplifting spree.

Ashley Cross, 37, cannot enter any of the grocery giant’s 4,600 stores after being caught running a bar code scam.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/consumer/article-14394133/woman-banned-walmart-america-self-checkout-trick.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/consumer/article-14084381/urgent-warning-self-checkout-scam-walmart-kroger-sheetz.html


3 posted on 04/19/2025 5:41:24 PM PDT by dennisw (💯🇺🇸 Truth is Hate to those who Hate the Truth. 🇺🇸💯)
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We’ve been using this for about five years now. Nothing new.


5 posted on 04/19/2025 5:43:01 PM PDT by Mathews (I have faith Malachi is right!!! Any day now...)
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When they deploy in San Francisco will the first 950$ be free.


6 posted on 04/19/2025 5:43:10 PM PDT by posterchild
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I guess the cost of RFID chips have fallen low enough to do this.


7 posted on 04/19/2025 5:43:25 PM PDT by Jonty30 (I can promise I can land any plane that is in the air, because gravity only moves in one direction.)
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I’ve been a member of Sam’s Club since it was Pace Membership Warehouse. Walmart bought them in 1993.

Looks like this will be my last year.


8 posted on 04/19/2025 5:43:39 PM PDT by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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Can an item be un-scanned once scanned? What if you scan it and it’s more than you want to pay or the wrong price? Does it display the price and a running total?

Do you get to bag/box the items?


9 posted on 04/19/2025 5:43:59 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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There are good people who - through no fault of their own - can find no better job than that of a checkout clerk.

I will stand in line for one of those folks for an hour before going to a self-serve line. And if all the lines are self-serve, I will shop elsewhere.

As with most things, your mileage may vary.


11 posted on 04/19/2025 5:45:45 PM PDT by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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This is the mode of operation at some https://zabka.pl convenience stores but that is in a higher trust society.


12 posted on 04/19/2025 5:45:51 PM PDT by posterchild
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No thank you. Big Brother monitoring your shopping. Might as well buy on line which is one thing the retailers would like.


13 posted on 04/19/2025 5:46:21 PM PDT by vivenne (7Come to think of it. )
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and download the store’s app.

That would be a 'nope' from me. Most apps are just spyware with the functionality just a bait to get folks hooked. If you look at the permissions, there are always tracking functions enabled that they don't really need to deliver what is needed.

17 posted on 04/19/2025 5:49:28 PM PDT by PAR35
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Great. More apps. And scanning. And cameras.

Shoulda just trialed it to see how folks like it.


18 posted on 04/19/2025 5:49:29 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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Here in Kali if you buy booze you have to go to a real live checker. Problem solved ;-)


19 posted on 04/19/2025 5:49:45 PM PDT by broken_clock (Go Trump! Prayers answered!)
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Someone will say it’s racist.


20 posted on 04/19/2025 5:50:27 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Use this all the time, it hands down beats waiting in line behind Cletus and Velveeta and their rabble of F trophies while they have to unload, let the checker who barely speaks English struggles with every item or worse has to price.check it. You could be in line for half an hour.

Or you just walk around the store with your pocket supercomputer put things in the cart scan the barcode and move on when you want to leave you swipe the pay now and it charges your card on file or if you have Sams cash back from a Sam’s MasterCard I allows you to use that. You then just walk out the door through the scan and go lanes the AI makes sure you are not a Fing thief which in most cultures previously deserved death and it should still be that way.

It’s only boomers with on a foot out the grave that either cannot or will not embrace the 21st century and the convenience of it. Do you really think that every purchase is not scanned and associated with a person every time and every transaction with a credit card. Your membership tracks you even if you use cash as you must scan the membership number BEFORE paying out even if using cash. Get over it no one cares what senior citizens are buying for dinner other than the marketing companies who want more out of your wallet.


24 posted on 04/19/2025 5:52:32 PM PDT by GenXPolymath
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They wasted their money on this att least where i am concerned


30 posted on 04/19/2025 5:58:36 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Donald John Trump. First man to be Elected to the Presidency THREE times since FDR.)
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The shake-up is aimed at reducing checkout wait times

They should just send an undercover agent over to Costco to see how they manage heavy checkout traffic, because Costco's system is great.

32 posted on 04/19/2025 6:03:15 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler
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We don’t have Costco in my neck of the woods. And I don’t use third party apps on my iPhone.


34 posted on 04/19/2025 6:05:41 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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You have a cart with $300 worth of loose items and you take them to the car?

It is interesting to watch stores end bagging groceries for the customers.


39 posted on 04/19/2025 6:13:59 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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No, not this kid. This is a slicker way to have individual purchases associated with the buyer. If one uses cash at a normal checkout station, there is no way to digitally know what anyone buys.

Cell phones are one big surveillance trap. They allow monitoring of ones travels, communications and any pictures taken. With this crap individual purchases can be monitored in real time.


41 posted on 04/19/2025 6:18:03 PM PDT by redfreedom (Happiness is shopping at Walmart and not hearing Spanish once!)
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