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In Sweden when you get stopped for random checks they do indeed make you empty out everything in your bags and rescan everything to make sure it matches.
by dagw 3y ago
In Sweden when you get stopped for random checks they do indeed make you empty out everything in your bags and rescan everything to make sure it matches.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 3y agoI’ll point out that typically in Sweden the carts are much smaller, the biggest ones you typically see at ICA and the like are pull behind rollers that are usually only about 25-40% of the size of a USA full size cart. So it’s not as big of an ask to empty them out as the massive trawlers provided in the USA.
- dagw 3y agoMy local ICA Maxi has three sizes of carts. The largest ones are basically the same size as the ones I've seen in the US. It differs greatly from store to store as well. The central down town ICA that doesn't have a parking lot only has the smallest carts. The massive ICA in the outskirts of town that can basically only be reached by car tends to have the big carts
- cvccvroomvroom 3y agoUS shopping carts vary widely. Costco's can fit a good 2 m^3 and 250 kg of products. The flat platform types can haul even more. These are in contrast to some pharmacy store carts are smaller than a hand basket.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 3y agoI will say that Costco’s baskets are definitely an outlier. When I go to Walmart, Target, Kroger, Safeway/Albertsons/Wegmans flavor of the day, all of those baskets are the same size. The vast majority of people in the USA shop with the roughly same full size wheeled cart or the handbasket in my experience. Perhaps a few cubic decimeters of variation but not much. I haven’t been everywhere in the States, but I have been to all of the contiguous ones and aside from the Costco cart, which is in fact larger, I have not seen much size variation beyond that. And the flat platform types, are you referencing the kind that are normally seen in Home Depot? The ones typically that go 6 inches from the floor and look like a pallet jack? With those again you can find them in Sam’s club and Costco but you won’t see them in a “typical” grocery setting
- ceejayoz 3y agoYou'd cause an armed revolution here trying that, lol. People already get grumpy at Costco when they want to briefly see your receipt.
- dagw 3y agoIt's very rare that it happens though, maybe once or twice a year to me.
- ghaff 3y agoHaving someone go through my bags looking for stolen merchandise once a year would be more than sufficient for me to take my business elsewhere.
- dagw 3y agoTo be clear, No one goes through your bags. you unpack your bags yourself onto normal checkout conveyor, as you would do if checking out normally. If you don't want to 'risk it' you can just go to the manned checkout to begin with.
- mmh0000 3y agoI would never agree to that. They have no right to see my personal property. Several Walmarts I’ve been in have asked to see my receipt, the answer is always the same: “No Thank You”, and if they persist I just ignore them.
- cvccvroomvroom 3y agoI think you're conflating reusable bags containing unpurchased products with women's purses.
- dagw 3y agoFilling your bags with stuff and barging out without paying has always been an option, even before self scanning. Advocating for it hardly gives you the moral high ground.
- HDThoreaun 3y agoSomeone would get shot if this became widespread in the us