ShopliftingWhen I was young and impressionable and on holiday in France, I followed some friends into a sweet shop and we each stole something. I was so mortified by this, I returned them.
My lack of French hampered this somewhat - they had no idea why the small English boy wanted to add some chews to the open box, and saw it as an attempt by a nasty foreigner oik to contaminate their stock. Not my best day.
What have you lifted?
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chthonic, Thu 10 Jan 2008, 11:13)
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more reasons..although i hasten to add I never actually tried this being as honest as the day is long, I do have the sort of mind that likes to think about things like this.. my local (now replaced) Safeways at one point introduced these weigh your own fruit and veg machine where once you'd bagged your loose fresh veg etc you placed it on the nearby scales and pressed the appropriate product button and it printed out a barcode based on the weight of the item that you stuck onto the bag, and that the till monkey scanned when you went to pay - I never did work out what was stopping you holding some of the items up as you weighed them or adding additional ones once the barcode was printed.
On a similar but related note of theft but not shop theft I've often wondered given the limited i.e. none counterfitting measures on pay and display parking tickets just how many people if anyone just scan one in and photoshop a new one whenever they need to park.
Given that its left behind the windscreen and so cant be closely examined I reckon you'd save a fortune given the prices of car parks near me!
(, Sat 12 Jan 2008, 22:06, 4 replies)
they contain...date codes, not something you'd notice from a distance; but seeing as thats all the parking monkeys do, it may or may not be worth the gamble.
(, Sat 12 Jan 2008, 23:03, closed)
parking machineI once saw a machine that had gone mad and was printing reams and reams of tickets...but they were blank.
I had the same idea as you but they have some codes on them to stop that happening.
(, Sun 13 Jan 2008, 1:01, closed)
If they're the same tills I'm thinking of...The checkout has a scale in it to make sure the weight of the items you've got in the bag match the weight of the items you scanned in.
You're much better off with the traditional pocketing it and walking out the door. Straight-up theft is much easier than fraud.
(, Sun 13 Jan 2008, 1:38, closed)
Weigh it yourself.Wilkinsons (cheapo shop chain) used to do a pick'n'mix where your would print your own price sticker as you describe. That was way before the supermarkets had nifty scales checkouts.
I saved just under half on a big bag of sweeties, shame they were all cheap shit sweets!
(, Mon 14 Jan 2008, 9:37, closed)
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