So finishing our scan and go shop at Asda at the weekend, I witnessed a couple of Asda staff speaking to a couple that my wife recognised as living on our estate
Turns out they omitted to scan some items and instead of marching them off or even making them rescan the entire shop, they only asked them which items they think they hadn't scanned!! To which they produced a couple of small items. The shop was over £130
What's the consequence of nicking stuff? Not much by all accounts
To top it off, they have a 4 bed detached, house, extended and solared panelled and drive mercs!!
Scum
Turns out they omitted to scan some items and instead of marching them off or even making them rescan the entire shop, they only asked them which items they think they hadn't scanned!! To which they produced a couple of small items. The shop was over £130
What's the consequence of nicking stuff? Not much by all accounts
To top it off, they have a 4 bed detached, house, extended and solared panelled and drive mercs!!
Scum
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sorted byThieving just pushes the price up for the honest shoppers.
Bit judgey, methinks, going by the irrelevent comment about what they own.
It is also rather strange that they know which items they forgot to scan
My point being that the OP can't say for certain precisely what was going on, indeed for all they know the small items that the couple declared as not being scanned might have been the only ones that they hadn't scanned. It's not that rare, when I'm shopping, for an item to not scan. Sometimes, when I rescan it, it then scans correctly, other times it doesn't. Sometimes stuff scans through cheaper than the shelf label, sometimes more expensive.
When I scan an item and it fails to scan (after 2 attempts), presumably I should always put it back or alert the staff to the error ?. And also if it scans through as cheaper than on the shelf label ?. And whenever a deal is posted on here about a pricing glitch no-one should take advantage of it ?.
'Scum' is way too strong in my opinion. I must have been subjected to at least 10 random rescans in the last year and on every occasion everything that the staff have rescanned I'd scanned. I scan everything that goes into my trolley. But, as I say, just occasionally it doesn't scan and comes up with an error message. Recently that happened with particular tins of cat food, I concluded that they were from a multipack which had presumably been damaged and the single tins had been placed back on the shelves but didn't scan. I attempted to scan those items more than once, I made no attempt to conceal them, and on those occasions had I been selected for a random rescan then presumably the staff would have had the same issue as me, i.e. those tins wouldn't scan. I wasn't selected for a rescan and therefore ended up with several tins of cat food I hadn't actually paid for. Does that make me scum or a thief ?.
What does surprise me about the OP's post is that I would have thought in the scenario they describe the staff would actually then do a complete rescan of all the couple's shopping, rather than relying on the couple to truthfully declare what hadn't been scanned.
However, we don't know if the OP omitted pertinent info which would corroborate why they say they are thieving scum, or if they are simply mistaken. However, the hypothetical point stands... people who steal from shops because they think they have an opportunity to are indeed scum.
It's probably a lot easier to steal and pay the security guard on way out.
Nearly every single one of them drove a brand new (probably tick) German car with a private plate or that year's plates. They had brand new £1000+ golf sets. They parked 50 yards past the clubhouse, down a dead-end that the council could easily have enforced limited entry on. Obviously people complained so the council put in on-course ticket inspectors, but if they found someone who had walked on they had no authority to impose a ticket/fine or kick them off the course. The paying clientele either stopped going or stopped paying as they were being taken for mugs.
The course has now closed (as has almost every other council course - for similar reasons) and now the only other options are courses that cost 3 times more per round (with no discount for the old folks). Council said they couldn't afford it so the facility and the jobs went (and councils continue to bleat on about funding issues....)
These folks, and the lazy, incompetent, or naive people that shrug their shoulders about them, are a large contributing factor to the fall from grace that this country has gone/is going through. (edited)
It's possible that they fund their lifestyle through legitimate means.
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The comments happened after he tried to walk on by & ignored the guard. (edited)
Security would come to the till and get me to ask if they had other items to scan.
It's easier to ban people from the store than to deal with the police, especially if there's only one person on security.
Tesco express theft's are happening all the time. Grab and run. Seen it happen.
Handbag thefts seem popular in supermarkets. Seen two myself and hear about it. Tends to be older lady's that carry handbags.
Checkout self scan thefts I don't know. How many are genuine mistakes by customers or staff scan check? (edited)
Mostly self scanning is fine but there are so many errors that occur - Reduced labels that don't scan. You can even hear a "beep" and nothing comes up on the list (the Tesco I go to the most was running Windows XP on its scanners till reasonably recently so that was probably why ). (edited)