That’s nothing. I’ve heard of people getting the cops called on them because the cashier forgot to scan an item and they noticed after getting home and went back to pay for it.
Further proving there’s no reason to be honest with corpos
*Citation needed*
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t like how things are going either. But “I’ve heard” isn’t really a trustworthy source.
Why would you even go back to pay for it?
honesty is a malignant brain infection
Meanwhile to the rich:
“You’ve been interfering with domestic and foreign elections, abused your workers, and even appeared with a noted pedophile? What about you promise you won’t do it ever again?”
Something, something, the law protects the ruling class, not the common people.
Law protects capital.
I’d say the bigger issue is if the manager fails to pay an employee for all hours worked (intentionally or accidentally), they don’t get to have cops called to arrest them, it’s on the employee to try to claw back their own money.
Wage theft is a far more significant issue than shoplifting but police, DAs, and legislators aren’t chomping at the bit to address that like they are shoplifting, which should tell you everything you need to know about who our “justice” system serves.
I once called police about a car theft on a property I managed. We had had footage of the theft, the thieves, their getaway car, their license plates, their entry and exit, their faces visible on every camera. It took the cops two weeks to drop by to collect the footage and take a report, and they looked so annoyed, and didn’t even pretend to care. They straight up told me nothing would come of it.
But if you’re a corporation, they’re all over that shit. Minor shop lifting? Cops are there in minutes. It’s become clear over the last few years who the police work for, and it’s not us, the little people who pay taxes.
Wouldn’t the getaway car in a car robbery be the car they’re in the midst of stealing?
Do you mean the “get to the job” car?
As a case study… (To be clear, every link below is regarding the same incident)
Officer put on “leave.” Worthless response, a clear covering of the ass when public outcry began.
Then this comes out:
I once had a Walmart employee follow me out of the building and start banging on my window screaming at me they’re calling the cops
Why?
I, while using a cane in one hand and the other occupied by a bag of dog food that was making me regret not waiting for a scooter, didn’t stop to chat with the old woman who was arbitrarily checking people’s receipts.
I told him he’s lucky I’m more level headed than most of my neighbors, because he would have been shot the moment he banged on glass and yelled, but if they want my receipt they can go watch the fucking cameras because I have somewhere to be.
Could I have handled it more calmly and with more understanding? Probably. But if you follow me out into the parking lot and start screaming at me, consider all respect lost, all decency dropped. You get back what you came in with.
Literally, the only reason I even went to Walmart is because the pet store I get the good food from had their registers all crash and wouldn’t start back up.
Since when did Walmart check receipts anyway?
A loss prevention guy followed my sister to her car after dark once, he thought she took something and wanted to check her receipt. she was sobbing cause she thought she was about to get raped. Loss prevention officers are just idiotic jackasses who aren’t smart enough to do anything else.
When that guy gets maced or tasered, I would happily laugh in his face and tell him he deserved it.
How did the thought “I should follow this lone woman out to her car in the dark” pass through his mind…
I just smile and say “no thank you” and keep going. There’s nothing they can do unless they actually think you stole something and they don’t have the manpower to detain everyone who won’t stop for their receipt check.
Note though that doesn’t apply to Sam’s Club or Costco or similar, if you’re a “member” there you agreed to the checks.
They can’t detain you even if they think you have stolen, though (from a store policy perspective). There’s a reason all these stores train employees “observe don’t interfere”.
i really want to get tackled so i can sue
now i always DEMAND that they scan my groceries for me
Shopkeeper’s privilege does exist, many stores simply choose not to exercise it.
As I mentioned, “from a store policies perspective”. The shrinkage isn’t worth the liability and risk for Walmart.
Not saying it is right, but shopkeepers can legally detain customers long enough to figure out if a theft happened. They have to have a reason to suspect it, though.
Loss prevention can, random cashiers cannot.
Fuck em anyway, I pay for my shit and unless it’s a real cop who might shoot me if I twitch funny, I ain’t stopping for shit.
If they don’t want to pay for cashiers, they can deal with people stealing shit. Walmart especially is a corp on welfare, they have the most employees receiving food stamps and Medicaid than any other company. I don’t really care if the government subsidized megacorp loses money every year, they aren’t providing worthwhile jobs anyway.
Lol you should have done it, Rambo.
I don’t use self checkout anymore. Here’s why
- The scales. I bring my own bags and you have to tare the scale against your bags before you can start scanning and it only works right about ⅓ of the time. So someone has to come set it for me.
- If I don’t bring my own bags inside, my only option at self checkout is plastic. Paper bags are offered by cashiers. I like to know my bags can actually be recycled.
- Self checkout is constantly populated by old folks who would have had IE jam packed with garbage toolbars 15 years ago. They can’t work self checkout any faster than they could have waited in line.
- There is a 25 item limit. I see people with 40+ items in self checkout all the time. It just bogs down what used to be a fast thing.
- Finally, the biggest reason I stopped using it is because part of the cost of my groceries is to have a worker to ring me up and another to bag my stuff. By using self checkout, I’m saving the store owner money. I am being the customer and the worker. This is my way of fighting back. If the cost of my groceries is going up, I’m going to make sure that someone else has that little bit of extra job security. If we all stop using self checkout, they have to keep more cashiers on hand. I don’t think I have to explain how more people having more available hours to work is a better societal alternative.
There is a 25 item limit. I see people with 40+ items in self checkout all the time. It just bogs down what used to be a fast thing.
Where? Self checkout isn’t express checkout. I don’t think express checkout has been a thing for 5+ years.
Edit: Lol also I appreciate this as a major reason you don’t use self checkout. That’s completely fair:
Self checkout is constantly populated by old folks
The shop-rite in my area has both express (10 items or less) and regular/no-limit self-check outs.
Depends on the region. At least here in the states there are plenty of stores where the self checkout at Walmarts have signs saying <=25
I shop at a grocery chain that’s privately/locally owned with about a half dozen locations in the metro (pop ~1.5M). There are far fewer people there and pricing is very competitive to Walmart.
This place does impose a 25 item rule at self checkout, but nobody is paid enough to care to enforce it. Can’t say I blame them. Yet another reason to abolish self checkout.
Oh, and fuck Walmart.
Personally I’m in favor of extreme automation like self checkout. The real issue is that the workers don’t see the return the buisness owners do. Like imagine if we had UBI + good unemployment and then it wouldn’t really be an issue. Walmart would have to compete with people going home
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I don’t recall there being a item limit. Which is unfortunate because the people who have boatloads of carts and their carts already loaded. They’re the most fucking slowest ever that they even give old people a run for their money. Slowly raising items to scan. Slowly putting them in bags. Slowly paying. Slowly moving the fuck out of the way as they try navigating a heavy cart with all of the junk that they’ll barely like as soon as it gets home.
Fuck them.
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I don’t think I have to explain how more people having more available hours to work is a better societal alternative.
It’s only better if a human cashier can do the job better. Otherwise, you’re just making humans do money-work as an excuse to give them more hours.
For example, I could do everything at work on a pad with a pencil instead of using a computer. I would certainly have more hours!
The reason why that sounds insane is because everybody recognizes that using a computer is much faster and more efficient, so you should use that instead.
Those self checkout watchers are more intense on the food side than they are on the pharmacy side. Pharmacy: young employees may forget to give a fuck. Food: old employees, think they might be fired if they don’t watch every item everyone scans.
If they want to be more sure that all items are scanned, maybe they should hire and train people to do that.
Donald suggests you be shot
Good reason to not use self-checkout. Tired, distracted, or old, then wait for a checker. Too poor for a lawyer, wait for a checker.
The only problem with the sentiment of “just don’t use it” is that many of these stores have like one manned checkout vs a dozen sel checkouts. Not about to sit in line with the carts full of stuff when I need to grab two things.
I often go to customer service and ask them to check me out. When they point to the self checkout, I tell them I prefer a human.
Never had any issues except one time I was at Lowe’s and the woman just wouldn’t do it. I had to tell her either check me out or agree that whatever I ring up is accurate.
She called a manager over it, who then checked me out.
I’m still bitter about it.
dont be this should be the new thing
Demand to have a clerk check you out
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Then find somewhere else to buy your two things. I all but refuse to even go to the big box stores anymore.
Yup. Sorry. I to feel that pain. But it is either go to a different store (if one is available), be very careful, or deal with the police and judicial system.
But this is the whole point of self checkout. Plus im not a trained professional at item scanning.
I was physically restrained by 4 Walmart employees, and convicted based on blatant lies from the LP manager (who legally counts as a “professional witness,” meaning her word is literally law) and a petty larceny effectively bars you from employment for 7 years.
What I “stole?” I was having a bad mental health day and missed a $5 pair of sunglasses on a $2-300 shopping trip.
When the judge started to say “no intent,” she cut the judge off and hollared how she watched me remove the tag “and that’s intent if I ever saw it.” Never mind that the picture SHE BROUGHT TO COURT still had it attached, because PrOfEsSiOnAl WiTnEsS hUrRdUrR.
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Since you didn’t link the news article to provide any context, I’m just gonna say “thieves get arrested. More at 10.”
yeah, so it’s a link to Inside Edition, which is the longest-running syndicated news program and has been running since 1989 and is currently syndicated by CBS.
You can verify it’s the same channel as their official channel because Inside Edition’s website (https://www.insideedition.com/ see YT link in top-left corner) links directly to it.
Media Bias Fact Check rates them generally factual – https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/inside-edition/
It’s not especially highly rated as TV news, saw it described as “the fast food of TV news,” but I didn’t see anything that described it as substantially non-factual.
What’s your issue with Inside Edition, again?
They can’t answer that, because the source was never the issue, they never even clicked through to see what the source was. Them being a bootlicker who can’t help but jump to the defence of and make excuses for the pigs is the only reason for this thread…
:surprised_pikachu:
Did you not see the link in the body
Yes, I saw the YouTube link. I did not click it, because I want to see the actual source. The “news story” you are qouting.
It’s… a link to the news story. If you bothered to click it instead of bitching about not getting a different link, you’d already have what you’re asking for.
You’d be better of with the YouTube link thoug…
Do you not know that actual news clips from actual news outfits get posted on youtube sometimes
Surely, you can give a more credible source than YouTube for your, no doubt, totally founded claim.
Honey please you’re embarassing yourself.
Still haven’t clicked the link huh?
Imagine not knowing that TV news exists.
It’s Inside Edition, not just some rando
Go to a retirement home already. News organizations have been using YouTube for years. Newspapers are only a thing still, for people like you.
News channels have been using YouTube to upload clips and segments for many many years now. But you probably don’t like YouTube because it’s big bad to folk like you.
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