As funny as it would be to see somebody get tackled as they leave a store with m&m's scanned in as raisins, you have to admit the chance of successfully playing dumb is pretty high. "I must have been looking at the wrong bin" would be more than enough to be let go in my opinion.
Stealing peppers on the other hand, while equally useless from a financial perspective, would be much harder to talk your way out of. If you ring up red peppers as green, it's pretty clear what you're trying to do.
If you ever think about amping your game up a little, I would caution against it. I saw a plain-clothed guard take down a shoplifter a couple of weeks back. When I asked if that was normal, the cashier said all the stores have plain clothed guards wandering around them all the time.
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