How honest are you with self-checkout?

[Anonymous]

Aren’t grocery stores stealing from us by wanting us to bag, scan, and work for them? We are their employees and then they have the nerve to ask for donations

[Anonymous]

They save billions on hiring employees by making customers unpaid labor

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If I legitimately get one of those prompts like “please scan again” or whatever, and I’ve already bagged it, I don’t rescan and just move on. Not my problem. If the pull me, I’ll just pretend I was confused.

This. My intention is to scan and pay for everything, but if the tech keeps giving me an error message I am not going to figure that out for the store.

[Anonymous]

Of course.

I don’t shoplift either.

Weird question.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They have cameras on the self checkout so I don’t know why people steal

Yes and the cameras have flagged me a couple times if I inadvertently hold an unscanned item over the bagging area. I don’t know how people get away with stealing when I’m stopped even when not stealing.

[Anonymous]

I bought a 7 dollar sandwich from the HT on broad street in falls church about two months ago. I self scanned, dropped it in the bag and paid, marking zero bags. The attendent tried to physically stop me to pay 5 cents as I walked out. I told him to f u ck off and call the police. There are plenty of men out there that would have dropped him the moment he put hands on them for a nickel. Hes lucky I'm not one of them.

I called the store once back at work and told the manager the story; he aplogized and promised that wasnt policy. I still told him they will never see another dime from me.

[Anonymous]

100% honest. I am fortunate enough not to have to steal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:100% honest at checkout. And I always put my shopping cart in the cart stall. Anything else is sh!tty.

Agree! Thank you.

“All the other kids are doing it” is a ridiculous excuse.

[Anonymous]

Scrupulously honest at self check out and I literally don’t know anyone adults who aren’t.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We had a wacko city council person get caught not scanning all the items she brought to the checkout. I don't know how they first noticed but it was less than $100 of stuff.

She was losing her mind at the time. She was kind of MAGA, she was an antimasker, she was having financial and business troubles as an independent lawyer during Covid times. I think it was gardening supplies she didn't pay for.

[/b]It made the local paper.[b] She passed a few months later due to combo of issues related to poor judgement, diabetes, caught covid, etc.

To me it's just crazy to steal like that (in addition to being morally wrong). With cameras, weigh scales, store security, credit card records, etc.

Well we don’t live in Hicksville.

This wasn't in Hicksville. It was a streetcar town 2 miles from city limits of a big US city (small town suburb).

Hicksville is in Nassau County, Long Island and is a suburb of NYC. It’s not a one-horse town.

Oh, I see, an NYC joke. I am elsewhere. I take it Long Island also has klepto MAGA city council lawyers?

[Anonymous]

Quite honest as I only have a few items usually.
I have plenty of money for one. I already get a dopamine hit if something is on sale and I believe in karma.
I've been incredible lucky my whole life. Would not want to mess that up over a candy bar.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If I legitimately get one of those prompts like “please scan again” or whatever, and I’ve already bagged it, I don’t rescan and just move on. Not my problem. If the pull me, I’ll just pretend I was confused.

How? The weight monitor should lock the checkout when that happens, unless the item was under 2oz

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Scrupulously honest at self check out and I literally don’t know anyone adults who aren’t.

How do you know other people's self checkout behavior?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I bought a 7 dollar sandwich from the HT on broad street in falls church about two months ago. I self scanned, dropped it in the bag and paid, marking zero bags. The attendent tried to physically stop me to pay 5 cents as I walked out. I told him to f u ck off and call the police. There are plenty of men out there that would have dropped him the moment he put hands on them for a nickel. Hes lucky I'm not one of them.

I called the store once back at work and told the manager the story; he aplogized and promised that wasnt policy. I still told him they will never see another dime from me.

I suspect the feeling is mutual.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I legitimately get one of those prompts like “please scan again” or whatever, and I’ve already bagged it, I don’t rescan and just move on. Not my problem. If the pull me, I’ll just pretend I was confused.

This. My intention is to scan and pay for everything, but if the tech keeps giving me an error message I am not going to figure that out for the store.

I enjoy walking away from a full cart when the system locks up and there are no staff around to fix it.