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Congratulations, you have discovered the concept of shoplifting!
by DangerousPie 5mo ago
Congratulations, you have discovered the concept of shoplifting!
- FatherOfCurses 5mo agoToo bad the store owners introduced a way to give customers more control over how merchandise exits their store.
- lotsofpulp 5mo agoAt my grocery store, they are using image recognition for self checkout. Bananas show up as bananas automatically, and if you select otherwise, I imagine it flags the item or purchaser. Shouldn't be long before the store figures out who is regularly overriding the image recognition for the purposes of theft. Either way, pretty stupid to incriminate yourself without plausible deniability on high definition cameras for stealing low price items.
- kennywinker 5mo agoGood thing I always shop with my andy worhol banana tote bag. Anyway, i am not a professional checkout machine operator. Any errors i may have made are caused by the fact that you’ve forced an untrained uninvested party to do work i don’t want to do so you can save on labour costs.
- WarmWash 5mo agoThe "too bad" is most people lacking the understanding that you don't steal from a store, you steal from honest shoppers who keep the store open for you to steal from. Stores just pass on the losses from theft into the price of everything else. You're not robbing a rounding error amount from a faceless billionaire, you're robbing a rounding error amount from the "sucker" paying full price next to you.
- lamasery 5mo agoNot just that, getting unpaid labor. Self-checkouts aren’t automating anything, they’re just making the shopper do work for the store. I hope they’re losing money over it.
- yreg 5mo agoThey are automating quite a lot, since the wait times are much much lower. I choose the self-checkout counters >95% of the time.
- lamasery 5mo agoPlease explain to me which part they are automating. A person scans the goods. A person handles keying in codes when necessary. A person tells the system the scanning is done and to accept payment. A person bags the groceries. I guess if you’re paying cash it automates taking the money slightly more than the standard cash register does. Mine have lower wait times because people with lots of stuff can’t fit that shit on the tiny scale-tables, and likely don’t feel like doing all that work themselves, so they go to the regular checkout line (there is usually only one, maybe two if it’s busy), plus the five or six stations share a line so it feels faster.
- yreg 5mo agoThe difference is that where I live stores that used to have, say, 10 counters out of which maybe 6 were open on average now have 4 human counters and 20 self-checkout counters. So for me it is in effect automating the part where I need to wait in a queue. We should surely keep some human counters for accessibility reasons, but I as a person able to scan my groceries in the 3 minutes it takes I'm perfectly happy to do just that. By the way there are also RFID counters where you just dump your goods in a bin and it scans everything automatically. Wouldn't solve the problem with items priced by weight, but makes the rest significantly easier.
- kennywinker 5mo agoThey understaffed, and it sucked. Now you do all the work and are apparently happy about it. Go figure.
- GuinansEyebrows 5mo agoif a store does not want to hire capable staff to perform an essential function, they should not expect laypeople to perform that action for free (or at higher cost, as we've seen with grocery prices in the US as human cashiers are reduced) at the same level as a trained staff member. we do not have to accept this decision to reduce staff and raise prices as a matter of course. plus, if you see somebody stealing food, no, you didn't.
- recursive 5mo agoIf GuinasEyebrows does not want to drive an appropriately security-hardened armored vehicle, then they should not expect that I will not jimmy the lock and hotwire it. If you see me drive it away, no you didn't. People are responsible for their own actions. If you think shoplifting is morally acceptable, don't try to tell me that I didn't see it.
- colechristensen 5mo agoWith about a month of practice you could learn to pick 95% of residential locks. So free everything because homeowners didn't bother to secure their stuff!/s Growing up our house physically did not have a lock. Keys never left vehicle ignitions. A frequent experience was buying a farm machinery part and picking it up after hours out of the back of somebody's truck. Living in low trust societies sucks. I've had friends bring people over to my house who just randomly stole things. I've dated women who stole money out of my wallet or if it'd leave $10 on the table they'd just take it. Casual theft is just gross as is the need to constantly feel like you need to defend yourself from everyone you meet, but moreso the casual attitude people have towards it.
- viccis 5mo ago>Living in low trust societies sucks. It does, but that trust is established top down. If businesses in this country act lawlessly with impunity, why would you expect people, especially if they are suffering because of some company's greed, to be the chump who acts nobly while seeing a society that rewards theft? That is not a normative moral defense of this behavior, just a descriptive one. Why would anyone expect a normal person to see a company receiving a tariff refund for a tariff that person paid and then view stealing from them as a continuation of the theft that the company itself engaged in by not paying them back?
- Hilliard_Ohiooo 5mo agoIt's hacking, there a difference. He learned the system and exploited a vulnerability!