Principal for only 8 months......I think I know why he got the gig in the first place and I doubt this is his 1st rodeo shoplifting.
Need I look?
DUMBASS THIEVING DEMOCRAT!
Go sit in the corner, Dumbass.
Oh, ok. You're off the hook, then. Case dismissed.
And criminal, too. Funny how they always try to minimize their crimes. My favorite is, "I made a mistake".
“he wanted to try it out for himself”
Yeah, this is the very first time he’s tried this scam. Uh huh. Sure.
Pet peeve of mine: Teachers, coaches, etc., downplaying criminal activity by teens and young adults as “bad decisions”. Criminal activity is a moral failing, not the equivalent of selecting the wrong daily special at lunch.
Doesn’t seem worth it.
Thou shalt not steal.
Once again my cultural perceptions have been correct.
‘The Devil made me do it’
a principal with no principle.
A couple of times I left Walmart with un-scanned items in my cart. They were small and I didn’t see them. Yeah, I came back in and paid for them. I went right past their Asset Recovery person.
Guess he’s not willing to wait for Reparations.
Walmart has pretty advanced theft detection technology. Though it may not be fully deployed at every store.
Among other things, they use AI/machine vision to monitor what you put in your cart which gets compared with the goods you checkout. Also, they try to detect other suspicious shopping behavior using AI supported machine vision. Store detectives can be alerted to pay attention to suspicious shoppers.
The National Retail Federation pegs average retail shrinkage at about 1.6% of sales annually, which hit $125 billion in 2023 across the U.S. Self-checkout theft, including skip scanning, is a chunk of that. A 2021 study from the University of Leicester audited a million self-checkout transactions and found nearly $850,000 in unscanned goods out of $21 million in sales—about 4% lost to "external shrinkage." That’s five times higher than theft rates at cashier checkouts, suggesting skip scanning isn’t just a blip. Another report from Capital One Shopping says 15% of self-checkout users admit to stealing, with 44% of those planning to do it again, and theft jumps up to 65% higher at self-checkout compared to traditional lanes.So theft at self-checkout is FIVE TIMES higher than theft at cashier checkouts.
* Dollar General yanked self-checkout from most of its 12,000+ stores in 2024 after a major implementation citing theft as a big driver.
* Five Below’s pulling it from high-risk spots
* Target’s limiting it, too.
Some stores are keeping it where traffic’s high and theft’s low, or upgrading with AI and cameras to catch skippers. It’s not a total rollback yet.
Customers aren’t loving the glitchy machines either. That is me -- I cannot go through self-checkout without something going wrong. The other day, the machine failed to ring up a special price on bottled drinks. I complained, invoked the Safeway price guarantee, and got a $5 voucher.
THIS IS THE QUALITY OF PERSONS WHO ARE TEACHING YOUR KIDS.
MORE GRATEFUL EACH & EVERY DAY FOR THE ONE ROOM SCHOOL GRADE SCHOOL EDUCATION I HAD.
8 grades 14 kids 1 teacher 2 outhouses 1 Merry Go Round