I like to grab a banana or two and eat them while doing my shopping. Then after I've had my banana(s) I usually crack open a 1 liter carton of milk to wash it all down with. Sometimes I can't finish the milk so I put it back on the shelf for the next thief.
I find all this stealing really improves my shopping experience...plus you know what they say... never go grocery shopping when you're hungry. You'd be amazed at how much lower my grocery bill is when I do this.
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.
When you shoplift, you aren't hurting the store. They put their prices enough to cover losses due to theft, security systems and security staff.
What you are doing is putting the price up for the box of Cheerios a minimum wage single mother is scraping pennies together to buy for her kids. Congratulations. You sure showed her.
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So what you're saying is, when you steal, you are actually stealing food out a starving childs mouthhole?
I tend to think of it is a necessary re-distributing of the food.
Creative, and I like the attempt/thread linking, but I'm not going to let this one fly.
I dramatized the example, because I know you love that, but really, the retail industry is highly competitive. If theft drops off, at least a portion of that makes it into lower prices.
So yup, food from the mouth hole.
And I'm going to drive around a Smart car at lunch tomorrow just to piss you off
Sometimes the self serve check outs can have a line up 3 deep and take longer cause some guy has a cart full of crap. Or the machines are messed up and constantly need a person to reset them because the weight is off and such. Maybe Walmart is on to something? Good for them. Seems smart to me to remove them.
This part really bugs, I love self checkouts, I am amazing at self checkouts. I have all of my produce codes memorized, bananas 4011. I am faster than a cashier. If people like you continue to steal you will ruin self checkout for the rest of us.
Maybe i'm going to hell, but I do this type of #### all the time. I love self checkout for this exact reason. Sure, its technically theft... They had to know this would happen with self checkouts so the big chains are ok with it. I think its rather stupid to rely on the honour system to sell your product. I am ok with taking advantage of someone else stupidity.
You can do it with bread rolls. Bell peppers is a popular one for me. It makes no sense to me why the green ones are cheaper. I like the rainbow effect in my basket, so I pay only the green price. I don't buy organic vegetables and fruit but if I did, I wouldn't be paying extra for it.
One trick I used to do was put cat food on the bottom rack of a shopping cart. Sometimes the clerk scanned it, sometimes they didn't. I just purchased a full cart of ####, my bad I forgot the bag of cat food. /shrug.
Well, I have to admit, if I am ever in dire straits on the street and need to get my fix of M&Ms, I am headed to my local Superstore.
Actually, similar to a previous story, I once has something on the bottom of my cart (toilet paper I think) and was dealing with 4 demonic kids by myself in the store. Got out to the van, loaded everyone in and realized I didn't pay for the TP.
So the option was get the kids back out of the van, drag them all back in and stand in line to pay for it again, or make like a bandit. Needless to say, I was quite content to just wipe for free that week.
Of course more than one time I have brought something in from the store, noticed that it was totally unusable once I opened the container (rotten, moldy etc) and just tossed it rather than returning it. I figure in the end, Superstore has come out way ahead in our little game of unintentional theft/screwing each other over.
You're wiping it wrong if a bag of toilet paper lasts you only a week.
