https://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-employees-and-customers-blame-self-checkout-shoplifting-rising-theft-2022-12

  • Des [she/her, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    i've posted about it before.

    scan fast. scan sloppy. ear buds in. music loud. be mentally somewhere else. get your discount. hold your receipt as you walk out.

    if you are confronted just admit you fucked up. you can't hear the beeps. likely you won't be noticed. nobody reviews camera footage unless there is an incidient. shrink recorded during a monthly inventory doesn't require the use of hundreds of hours of labor costs to review thousands of hours of footage. (target may be the exception to this)

    if you are (likely) left alone and are worried know even on camera there isn't any visible intent it will be extremely hard to prove deliberate theft... so hard it will probably smash this entire self checkout thing in the end once the courts determine level of customer responsibility for training on self-checkout. nobody is going to touch that shit if you have to do a 15 minute training course with a disclaimer saying you are legally responsible for any and all mistakes.

    • Deadend [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      It also helps to be visibly not poor and a white Man.

      • Des [she/her, they/them]
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        2 years ago

        supposedly according to that leaked target security documentation that was passed around in the early 00s if you are with a romantic partner it's even better.

    • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      As someone who used to do inventory for large chain stores, they are far more likely to assume someone got the inventory wrong at the DC or something was mishandled in shipping and just make the correction, than do anything else.

      • Des [she/her, they/them]
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        2 years ago

        yeah i do inventories of multiple depts in large chain monthly and we never pull tapes i just have to eat the shrink. stealing is never spoken of it's all about making invoice claims for lost product from the DC and cheating if you have to because those assholes at the DC always come out +hundreds of thousands $ on their inventories.