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Go look up banana trick, aka PLU 4011. This shoplifting joke is thanks to the replacement of humans with these terrible self(aka unpaid) scan machines. Stuff
by pierat 4y ago
Go look up banana trick, aka PLU 4011.
This shoplifting joke is thanks to the replacement of humans with these terrible self(aka unpaid) scan machines.
Stuff gets put in as bananas, and then weighed. You pay $.29/lb for whatever. And this works beautifully for high price stuff like steaks and the like.
Not that I advocate physical theft, but it's definitely a thing. And it's a thing where more people are being screwed. I sure as hell don't get a "you scan it" discount, officially.
https://losspreventionmedia.com/the-banana-trick-and-other-acts-of-self-checkout-thievery/ https://losspreventionmedia.com/the-banana-trick-and-other-a...
And there's plenty other 'tricks' aka shoplifting that can be done to little risk, primarily due to companies fucking customers over by making us unpaid employees.
Excuse me while I cry an alligator tear for them
Edit: tough crowd, I see. You all don't get it. Shoplifting has increased by like 600% because companies are getting rid of cashiers. It's corporate greed is what's allowing shoplifting with the thin veneer of 'legitimacy' to happen. (Legitimacy of 'i scanned it but oh well, wrong barcode/plu.)
And I find it funny, because corporate greed is triggering revenge shoplifting, for customers being forced to be unpaid employees. And the u-scan-its are basically idiot jackpot machines with anyone with low ethics.
- Gigachad 4y agoIn Australia the supermarkets use cameras pointed at the scanner and AI to visually match items. When you scan a steak as bananas, it notices something isn't right, puts an image of the item you weighed, and the item you selected on screen and flags a staff member to verify it. As a nice bonus, when you open the selection menu, it has the item you want shown up front so you don't have to search for it most of the time.
- bexsella 4y agoWhat I like about this system is that every time I've ever encountered this it's always been a laughable error. The last time, I weighed a carrot and it reported that I had actually weighed plums, despite the image clearly being orange and longer than most plums in a longest plum competition.
- idndoxheo 4y agoup next, banana stickers to make the ai do the banana trick for you!
- reustle 4y ago> customers being forced to be unpaid employees Do you consider yourself a forced unpaid employee when you go through the checkout screen on Amazon?
- anotherhue 4y agoThat poster should look up what groceries stores used to look like...
- pjscott 4y agoThe old ones where everything is behind the counter, fetched for you by the checkout clerk, to prevent shoplifting? I've seen the pictures, and I never want to go back to that kind of low-trust society. Please, I'm begging everyone who will listen: do not erode the social norms that let us have nice supermarkets. Or most other nice things.
- RalfWausE 4y agoI am more in the "do everything you can to let the big corporations die" camp... but to each their own
- realjhol 4y agoDecent people are in the "stealing is wrong" camp
- tremon 4y agoDecent people are also in the "if you want people to do work for you, you need to pay them" camp.
- the_optimist 4y agoWhy does a “corporation” face your ire? Are unincorporated groups of people somehow superior in your perspective?
- smsm42 4y agoDo you understand you correctly that you claim a) it's ok to shoplift because grocery store owners are big corporations b) it's ok to shoplift because they make it too easy to shoplift c) it's ok to shoplift because they don't provide you with shopping experience you consider ideal d) since you see nothing wrong with shoplifting, you personally do it frequently, maybe every time you go to the grocery store?
- splistud 4y ago[dead]
- skinnymuch 4y agoHey I tried to add a top root comment going over my disputing of what others are saying. Sister sibling: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35777458 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35777458
- carlob 4y ago> Excuse me while I cry an alligator tear for them I don't think grocery stores are very sad about it either: they probably ran some cost-benefit analysis and decided that the friction from increased shoplifting cost X, the salary savings are Y and Y > X.