Walmart is the closest thing to working for the government the private sector has. Except the government has no concept of stop loss and budgets. Big and slow but when they catch on it's a sudden draconian all encompassing change.
That’s funny. Digital Abbie Hoffman in “Steal This Book”.
“This is f’ing awesome!”
Didn’t care for the price, yada, yada, yada...
Trust me. Walmart has been installing systems where the receipt will be tied to video of your check out.
I know someone involved in the sale of such systems. I described to a local guy years ago. He works (still does) for a very large, well-known convenience/gas station organization.
He later told me he went to training on this - they’re getting the same system.
Schadenfreude for the self-check-out idea.
[They then purchase goods at a self-chosen discount via the self-check lanes, according to NOPD]
Sometimes, there are people watching the self-checkouts, live, in WM.
I witnessed a Latino girl/woman (maybe about 25). She tried scanning not all of her products at self-checkout. She was maybe 15-20 feet away from me at the time. I can still remember what checkout she was at and in what store.
There were 2 off-duty policemen, IN UNIFORM, standing no more than 10-15 feet from her. They called down, she was arrested and handcuffed in front of me - she didn’t make it but about 10 feet from the checkout.
Like the thieves who wrap a cheap greeting card around a more expensive one, and then go to the self check out. Crooks dream up a million ways to scam the system.
They don’t call the self- checkouts “ Thieving lanes” for nothing.
Self checkout is probably one of the dumbest things to be implemented.
You wait in line behind people who cant use machines. Then any savings the store gets from not paying minimum wage clerks is wiped out multifold by thefts
Two more candidates for Trump’s early parole program ...
I got me a 70” big screen fo fitty cents.
Pretty slick, but not slick enough. If you want an example of creativity + sheer nerve aided by stupidity there was an incident on the West Bank of N.O. at a pawn shop. Black couple goes in empty handed, man stops at front counter woman goes to electronics. She picks up a TV, takes the stickers off and goes up front and PAWNS it for $$!! I ALMOST wish they had gotten away with it because the shop proprietors were Sooooo STUPID. They were apprehended.