Iceland
Some of you may remember that my b3ta virginity was popped with this post.

My get-rich-quick scheme wasn't actually mine but I took it to the next level.

A friend of mine, Alex, worked there, and he had developed a nice way to make a few quid. Every so often, when the right situation arose, he'd pounce. The situation was thus: If there's a queue of people at your till with one person towards the back holding just one item (i.e. a £1 bottle of milk) you say:

"Do you want to just give me the money for that and I'll scan it through later? Saves you waiting."

Smiling, they'd do just that, happy that the nice man let them go early. Did we scan it through later? Did we fuck.

That was a nice earner for most of the team at this particular store but then I hit upon an ingenius plan.

Iceland's pricing is usually round numbers rather than £x.99 etc which was good for this ruse. Now if I saw someone with even two or three items I could quickly add the totals in my head, pretend to scan through the items and then pocket the dosh.

When people took advantage of the 3 for £10 wine deals it was heaven.

But, er... got caught, got arrested, game over. Had to pay back all we'd nicked (£600 or so was the figure they arrived at but it was certainly more).

Don't do it.
(MJPerry was crude but clickable at, Sat 2 Aug 2008, 12:47, Reply)