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[-] Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 137 points 1 year ago

Mistakes happen when untrained people are employed to do work.

[-] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.sdf.org 82 points 1 year ago

Me accidentally buying a PS5 for $8 by weighing it as onions

[-] The_Eminent_Bon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Expensive onions

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[-] Maeve@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago
[-] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year ago

Idk I've always just considered a way to go about my business quicker and with less need for human contact. It's a plus for me

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[-] clearedtoland@lemmy.world 97 points 1 year ago

The fact that things like this never occur to me as possibilities goes to show just how naive I am about how the world works

[-] CodingAndCoffee@lemmy.world 69 points 1 year ago

You sound like a good person who returns their shopping cart

[-] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago

Be the change you want to see in the world! The shopping cart/parking lot affects us all. Walmart losing money on every avocado doesn't bother me at all.

In fact walmart probably doesn't care at all either, they'll take electricity over humans any day

[-] jayemar@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago

A friend of mine told me that when he worked at a grocery store as a teenager that he always liked being tasked with rounding up the grocery carts in the parking lot because he got to go outside and be by himself for a bit. I think about that a lot, but I also return my cart.

[-] Ambiorickx@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I agree with your friend, I’ve been in the same job. But I also return my cart.

[-] demlet@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Former grocery store teen here. It was nice to get away from customers a little, but then again then you're stuck in a parking lot with those same customers and now you have to try and avoid getting run over.

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[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 33 points 1 year ago

Me returning the cart makes a person's job easier.

Stealing doesn't affect the workers.

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[-] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.sdf.org 26 points 1 year ago

I return my shopping cart but I couldn't give a shit less how much Walmart is losing to shoplifters.

"Oh know guys! We only made $28 million in profit this year instead of $29 million! What will we tell our investors who are each worth six times that?"

[-] misterundercoat@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

$28 million

I like your Dr. Evil-esque way of getting the order of magnitude wrong

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[-] SexyTimeSasquatch@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

For some reason not returning the shopping cart makes me angrier than the meme about abusing self checkout.

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[-] sturmblast@lemmy.world 63 points 1 year ago

look I'm all for sticking it to the Man and stealing if you're actually starving but a lot of you people are just Petty thieves

[-] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 year ago

The grocery stores are as well when there's record inflation and people struggling and they are all posting record profits.

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[-] Strawberry 15 points 1 year ago

what about sticking it to the man because fuck him

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Correct. Still not sorry.

[-] Quexotic@infosec.pub 8 points 1 year ago

I always keep in mind the old adage, if you saw someone stealing food, no you didn't.

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[-] walter_wiggles@lemmy.nz 31 points 1 year ago

Don't feel bad, you earned it. Imagine how it's cheaper for companies to pay god knows how much on anti-theft measures instead of paying a living wage to cashiers.

ps. You should never use self checkout. We've all been tricked into thinking we can do it better/faster ourselves.

[-] darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 year ago

I use self checkout because I don't want to fake a conversation with the cashier.

[-] zammy95@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I also am particular about how I bag things. I agree with the sentiment of self checkouts being lame and taking jobs and all that jazz, but eh. There's bigger fish to fry than this one, and many people like it anyway

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[-] DrDickHandler@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

What a fucking brain rot take.

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[-] salvaria 8 points 1 year ago

I use self-checkout because I have a "20% off your entire cart" coupon that I don't want to give up. When I scan it, I just put a random piece of paper into the slot so the machine registers that I put something in there. In this way, I kind of am getting paid to scan my own groceries.

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[-] jcit878@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

the fuckers have cameras and "AI" detection here, if it looks and sees something it doesn't think is a banana the whole thing stops and signals a staff over. doing groceries is seriously more fucked than going through airport security now.

fuck Woolworths and coles

[-] AaAaaaAaAA@aussie.zone 7 points 1 year ago

That's why I bag bananas and apples, weigh only 1 or 2 and have the rest of the bag off the side. As close to "on the house" as possible

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[-] sweetviolentblush@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago

Yeah you definitely shouldn't ring up pine nuts as de-shelled sunflower seeds, or use the scan-one add-three to your bag technique at self-checkout 👀

[-] mycatiskai@lemmy.one 12 points 1 year ago

Just scan a banana as an avacado right after. So they are both on your receipt.

[-] ggppjj@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

The ones from NCR use the camera-based 7879/7895 scales with computer vision to check that you aren't doing this. It'll take a picture and require an override where it shows that picture to the attendant.

It's called produce assurance.

[-] rez_doggie@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago
[-] phorq@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

Crazy how all bananas grow with the same code on their sticker...

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[-] BucketHat@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

I accidentally bought a bag of avocados for the price of 1 avocado at self checkout. I couldn't find the bag of avocados in the menu so I just selected avocado in the menu.

It turns out the bag of avocados come with a barcode to scan it 🤦

[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago

There are different types of bread? Oh there is organic and cheap?

Wow sorry but if they outsource even the low income jobs they are so evil they dont deserve anything but that

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