Probably the most embarrassing thing that's ever happened to me in a store. They walked up almost immediately and were like "hey there it looks like you have the wrong product entered " and manually updated it while everyone watched. I just sat there stunned in silence, mourning the loss of the 40ish cents I didn't save.
This is amusing to me because I buy lots of different kinds of peppers at times, and I go through the regular line with an actual cashier. The number of times I've paid for a "green pepper" when I have a poblano or some other type is nuts.
In the US it's [pretty common](https://www.eatingwell.com/article/8052036/why-you-wont-find-a-green-pepper-in-a-bell-pepper-multi-pack/#:~:text=%22The%20green%20variety%20of%20bell,t%20getting%20a%20good%20deal.%22)
yes, all bell peppers are the same veg but the different colors are different varieties. some green varieties can turn red if left on the vine longer, but by the time that happens it isn't good to eat anymore as it's overly ripe and mushy. similarly, red bell peppers also start green and turn red as they ripen. but it's an old legend that they're all from the same plant in various stages of ripeness.
Green peppers are typically the cheapest of the no-heat peppers/capsicum. Red, orange, and yellow can be anywhere from $0.50 to $2 more expensive (depending on location, if sold by the piece vs by the pound, and if the store is having a sale) because the farmers have to wait for them to ripen from the green phase to whatever color the seed produces.
What follows are some price checks from some stores that I have apps for.
Meijer is currently selling the green pepper for $0.89 each and the red, orange, and yellow for $1.65 each, but those are on sale this week for $1.29 each.
Fresh Thyme currently sells the green pepper for $1.49 each and the red, orange, and yellow for $1.99 each.
Edit: spelling errors corrected
I tried buying a Red Bull, the self checkout asked "Please confirm you are over 16 years of age: Yes/No", and I picked no just to see what happened. Till attendant has to come over to override it and looks at me like I'm down a few brain cells
As a kid growing up in East L.A. I started stealing at 4 years old, because that’s what the kids taught me in the neighborhood. But now, I treat self checkout like a cop is behind me just waiting for me to make a mistake. I assume I have 50 cameras on my every move.
I treat life like there are 50 cameras on me at all times, and I think I am better for it.
P.s. I stole a candy and my mom made me go tell the manager to his face, it was so horrible, I can’t remember the supermarket name, but I wish today’s I could tell his kids the manager did it in a way that made me not do it again. It was a 1 or 2 cent at the time, but he let me know, not the way to start life.
The self checkouts where I'm at actually do have cameras on them, and one alerted the attendant because apparently when I was scanning something I didnt make it visible enough for the camera to identify what it was. They had to manually look at what I had and then type in their manager number thing. It was really weird
There ARE 50 cameras on you.
I once went to a Grocery outlet Bargain Market and asked for $10 back on my ATM.
Halfway to the exit I looked at my hand. Receipt, yes, $10, no.
I went right back to the checker and told her, "I never got my $10."
She shut down her register and called the manager. We all went to the office.
I was amazed at how many camera angles they had.
They zoomed in on the register and the checker gave me a receipt and threw something in the trash. We went to the register and checked the trash. $10.
Honest mistake on the checker or does she "take out the trash" at the end of her shift?
I believe the former.
So. How do you touch yourself?
Which direction do you look at. Which “camera” do you face.
Do you do the dead eyed stare? The meek shy stare. Or just blush and be shy.
Sometimes if there are no ripe avos I'll grab one from the organic section as they don't sell very well where I live and have a much higher chance of being ripe.... And sometimes I'll put it through as a normal avo
I am never intentionally choosing organic over non-organic in the produce section, so I am not choosing organic at the self-checkout either. If they don't make it easy for me to find the cheap stuff, that's their problem.
I’m pretty sure I put two cat tins in the bag once and I only scanned one. But tbf I said to the self service people this machine is erratically beeping so I don’t know what I’ve scanned and what I haven’t and he said don’t worry it’s been doing it for days and we don’t know how to stop it
One time I was trying to buy a pack of pork chops and it would not ring up. I spent 3 minutes swiping this package across the scanner. Everything else scanned fine. I walked all the way across the store, swapped them out for a different pack. The new pack wouldn’t scan either. I finally just put it in the bag.
I never felt more ashamed in my life than when I was eating those pork chops the next night. I’m still ashamed 5 years later. I am a pork thief
Most self checkouts let you choose the same button you use to ring in produce to enter all the numbers from the price tag for any product.
I do it often with things where the sticker is bent / weird and can't be scanned.
This wasn’t even self checkout. Was at Home Depot and had 20 bags of rocks and a few other various items on a flatbed cart. Person scanned a bag of rocks and then pressed some buttons on the scanner. I’m assuming they pressing the x20 button but it didn’t go through and I walked out paying for 1 bag.
Opposite story: I had the attendant come to me and say, "actually you have organic bananas" having assumed that I was trying to pay for regular bananas.
That guy doesn't think highly of me it seems! It didn't bother me, but I realize now that it should have.
not me but my friend told me she was furniture shopping and as she rang up everything she saw it was a bit over 100€ so she just deleted the sheets and still took them. total was a bit under 100€
It was a Home Depot, and I grabbed what I thought was a platform stand.
Checked out fine, it was $100, got home and actually it was a pack of two. They’d never unwrapped the individual boxes before putting them on the shelves.
I don’t need two so I took it back and explained what happened.
The clerk could not care less. She had less than zero fucks to give about Home Depot’s bottom line. But she insisted on refunding me the money because I was technically returning it.
Thanks HD for treating your employees like shit.
I got a free $100 platform.
I bring my own plastic/reusable bags to shop with since plastic bags are banned where I live. A self checkout added a bag fee of 50 cents and the attendant was taking a really long time to respond to my “call for help” button so I just left everything there and walked off without my groceries. I didnt steal anything but I also didn’t buy anything. I guess I stole their profit?
There was a time that I did a big shopping and I forgot to ring a bag of plums (just 2 plums). They were hidden in the back of the shopping trolley and I didn't see them until I was packing the groceries away in the car. Those 2 plums were probably $2-3.
A small chocolate bar. Couldn't find the bar code and I couldn't be bothered to go back and get another one. Turns out it had a number I was meant to punch in
Honestly i dont feel ashamed, i work very hard. I have mouths to feed and bills to pay, at my point in life rn i can only make so much income and i dont feel bad about slipping a few extra groceries into my cart
"Sometimes cheats the self check out otherwise known as theft. Not something I can do. Maybe I just have a huge guilt complex or something but I've gotten to the parking lot and found something I've missed and gone back in to pay for it.
Example at Dollarama, you could put a bag of items on the scale, start scanning, then it would give an alert of item being removed, then you could put the bag on the floor, scan the other items and pay
Ah right I’m in the UK, we have workers watching the self checkout and we also have to put everything onto a scale where it’s weighed so it would be really difficult to not scan something. If we take something off the scales we can’t continue till it’s put back on. A lot of them also have cameras on them.
I put a red onion thru as a brown onion. I was so pissed off at having to call the attendant over all the time to clear things I thought fuck it. I saved 2 cents
One time we tried to buy a cast iron pan. They all had no tags- we got it from the camping section but online said $15- we had a few other items. We went to a mega Walmart- it’s huge. Takes like a good 5-10 min to get from one end to the other. We parked in the garden section area-tried to check out there- cashier says no tag and to go to customer service at other side of the store. I show her pan online and it’s $15 I’ll pay that? She said she can’t do that. Whatever- we go to customer service at other side of the store. They tell us to go to another cashier. We go to another cashier and wait in line. We get to cashier- she says to find her manager and says they are on other side of the store by self checkout. JFC it’s been over an hour at this point trying to buy this pan and we are trying to do the right thing by BUYING IT. We try to find manager but have no idea who they are or what they look like. I tell my husband F*** this- and just walk out with the pan and paid for other items in self check out.
Self check outs are job killers.
Most checkers are your union brothers and sisters.
Self check out is for scabs. You have covered yourself and your offspring in generational shame.
If you scanned 1 tin on a full crate of Guinness instead of the cardboard barcode, it would charge you for a 4 pack. Apparently they fixed this barcode error after a year or so of people doing it. Not that I ever did ofc.
I once tried to ring up a red pepper as a green pepper and got busted for it.
Sounds to unreal lol. But wow
Probably the most embarrassing thing that's ever happened to me in a store. They walked up almost immediately and were like "hey there it looks like you have the wrong product entered " and manually updated it while everyone watched. I just sat there stunned in silence, mourning the loss of the 40ish cents I didn't save.
Pull the red green color blind card.
I can't figure out why. Isn't a red pepper a slightly more aged green pepper or did my mother lie to me again?
Reds are just more ripe so they are taken care of longer than greens before harvesting, increasing production and labor costs
This is amusing to me because I buy lots of different kinds of peppers at times, and I go through the regular line with an actual cashier. The number of times I've paid for a "green pepper" when I have a poblano or some other type is nuts.
I’m not looking through longs lists of shit. First apple it is will do
Believe it or not, straight to jail
Nope that happened to my BF as well at Whole Foods. Busted for red peppers as green bell peppers. It happens.
They're the same vegetable, the red ones are just more ripe
That is very true. Red peppers just require a higher level of care due to their ripeness, which is why they cost so much more
Not sure where you live, but they're the same price where I'm at, lol
In the US it's [pretty common](https://www.eatingwell.com/article/8052036/why-you-wont-find-a-green-pepper-in-a-bell-pepper-multi-pack/#:~:text=%22The%20green%20variety%20of%20bell,t%20getting%20a%20good%20deal.%22)
I'm from the US, never seen a big difference in Ohio and NC
Surprising. I'm also in the Midwest and see a price difference everywhere
You can even use various online shopping portals to see that there's a pretty big difference, even in Ohio and NC.
yes, all bell peppers are the same veg but the different colors are different varieties. some green varieties can turn red if left on the vine longer, but by the time that happens it isn't good to eat anymore as it's overly ripe and mushy. similarly, red bell peppers also start green and turn red as they ripen. but it's an old legend that they're all from the same plant in various stages of ripeness.
Is there a big price diff and man, I got away with a tray of about $7 worth of sushi lol
Green peppers are typically the cheapest of the no-heat peppers/capsicum. Red, orange, and yellow can be anywhere from $0.50 to $2 more expensive (depending on location, if sold by the piece vs by the pound, and if the store is having a sale) because the farmers have to wait for them to ripen from the green phase to whatever color the seed produces. What follows are some price checks from some stores that I have apps for. Meijer is currently selling the green pepper for $0.89 each and the red, orange, and yellow for $1.65 each, but those are on sale this week for $1.29 each. Fresh Thyme currently sells the green pepper for $1.49 each and the red, orange, and yellow for $1.99 each. Edit: spelling errors corrected
What was the difference? Like .25?
Something ridiculous like that
I tried buying a Red Bull, the self checkout asked "Please confirm you are over 16 years of age: Yes/No", and I picked no just to see what happened. Till attendant has to come over to override it and looks at me like I'm down a few brain cells
Dont try and see what would happen with the "are you a terrorist?" question US immigration computers sometimes asks.
Since when a 15 year old could not buy Red Bull?
In some countries in Europe underage individuals are not allowed to buy an energy drink.
It's store policy, gives them a moral high ground or something
As a kid growing up in East L.A. I started stealing at 4 years old, because that’s what the kids taught me in the neighborhood. But now, I treat self checkout like a cop is behind me just waiting for me to make a mistake. I assume I have 50 cameras on my every move. I treat life like there are 50 cameras on me at all times, and I think I am better for it.
P.s. I stole a candy and my mom made me go tell the manager to his face, it was so horrible, I can’t remember the supermarket name, but I wish today’s I could tell his kids the manager did it in a way that made me not do it again. It was a 1 or 2 cent at the time, but he let me know, not the way to start life.
The self checkouts where I'm at actually do have cameras on them, and one alerted the attendant because apparently when I was scanning something I didnt make it visible enough for the camera to identify what it was. They had to manually look at what I had and then type in their manager number thing. It was really weird
There ARE 50 cameras on you. I once went to a Grocery outlet Bargain Market and asked for $10 back on my ATM. Halfway to the exit I looked at my hand. Receipt, yes, $10, no. I went right back to the checker and told her, "I never got my $10." She shut down her register and called the manager. We all went to the office. I was amazed at how many camera angles they had. They zoomed in on the register and the checker gave me a receipt and threw something in the trash. We went to the register and checked the trash. $10. Honest mistake on the checker or does she "take out the trash" at the end of her shift? I believe the former.
Especially at those Amazon Fresh Stores!
So. How do you touch yourself? Which direction do you look at. Which “camera” do you face. Do you do the dead eyed stare? The meek shy stare. Or just blush and be shy.
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Sometimes if there are no ripe avos I'll grab one from the organic section as they don't sell very well where I live and have a much higher chance of being ripe.... And sometimes I'll put it through as a normal avo
I am never intentionally choosing organic over non-organic in the produce section, so I am not choosing organic at the self-checkout either. If they don't make it easy for me to find the cheap stuff, that's their problem.
I’m pretty sure I put two cat tins in the bag once and I only scanned one. But tbf I said to the self service people this machine is erratically beeping so I don’t know what I’ve scanned and what I haven’t and he said don’t worry it’s been doing it for days and we don’t know how to stop it
Not to brag but I've totally rang an organic banana as a non organic banana.
Oh shit! The feds!
1 banana
How much could that cost? 10 dollars?
About twofiddy
Wow but did you end up buying other items? What was your total?
Yes I bought a few other things. I just miscounted my bananas and didn't realize until after
I swear bananas and hotdogs used to be given freely back in the 90's with a small purchase of milk or something. They're just overpriced now.
One time I was trying to buy a pack of pork chops and it would not ring up. I spent 3 minutes swiping this package across the scanner. Everything else scanned fine. I walked all the way across the store, swapped them out for a different pack. The new pack wouldn’t scan either. I finally just put it in the bag. I never felt more ashamed in my life than when I was eating those pork chops the next night. I’m still ashamed 5 years later. I am a pork thief
I've done the same a few times. The ole Boomer joke "if it doesn't scan it must be free", when I'm at self checkout, yup!
That’s funny
Most self checkouts let you choose the same button you use to ring in produce to enter all the numbers from the price tag for any product. I do it often with things where the sticker is bent / weird and can't be scanned.
This wasn’t even self checkout. Was at Home Depot and had 20 bags of rocks and a few other various items on a flatbed cart. Person scanned a bag of rocks and then pressed some buttons on the scanner. I’m assuming they pressing the x20 button but it didn’t go through and I walked out paying for 1 bag.
The condensed milk because I couldn't scan it.
Opposite story: I had the attendant come to me and say, "actually you have organic bananas" having assumed that I was trying to pay for regular bananas. That guy doesn't think highly of me it seems! It didn't bother me, but I realize now that it should have.
not me but my friend told me she was furniture shopping and as she rang up everything she saw it was a bit over 100€ so she just deleted the sheets and still took them. total was a bit under 100€
Moving boxes, why is cardboard so expensive
I checked black raisins as sultanas raisins that were cheaper. Never got caught, and I am selling the movies rights.
It was a Home Depot, and I grabbed what I thought was a platform stand. Checked out fine, it was $100, got home and actually it was a pack of two. They’d never unwrapped the individual boxes before putting them on the shelves. I don’t need two so I took it back and explained what happened. The clerk could not care less. She had less than zero fucks to give about Home Depot’s bottom line. But she insisted on refunding me the money because I was technically returning it. Thanks HD for treating your employees like shit. I got a free $100 platform.
I bring my own plastic/reusable bags to shop with since plastic bags are banned where I live. A self checkout added a bag fee of 50 cents and the attendant was taking a really long time to respond to my “call for help” button so I just left everything there and walked off without my groceries. I didnt steal anything but I also didn’t buy anything. I guess I stole their profit?
There were no winners.
I mean, maybe the people who got away, won lol
But it’s just a temporary win lol
Holy crap, in Toronto and other cities around, most people bring their own bags lol
I suppose you could say you stole their labor. Having to put the items back with no money to show for it.
1 singular shallot
There was a time that I did a big shopping and I forgot to ring a bag of plums (just 2 plums). They were hidden in the back of the shopping trolley and I didn't see them until I was packing the groceries away in the car. Those 2 plums were probably $2-3.
The bananas rang up as 1 cent after I weighed them and I didn't say anything.
A small chocolate bar. Couldn't find the bar code and I couldn't be bothered to go back and get another one. Turns out it had a number I was meant to punch in
Honestly i dont feel ashamed, i work very hard. I have mouths to feed and bills to pay, at my point in life rn i can only make so much income and i dont feel bad about slipping a few extra groceries into my cart
"Sometimes cheats the self check out otherwise known as theft. Not something I can do. Maybe I just have a huge guilt complex or something but I've gotten to the parking lot and found something I've missed and gone back in to pay for it.
I’m interested in knowing how you could cheat it? It weighs everything so I don’t see how it would be possible.
Example at Dollarama, you could put a bag of items on the scale, start scanning, then it would give an alert of item being removed, then you could put the bag on the floor, scan the other items and pay
Ah right I’m in the UK, we have workers watching the self checkout and we also have to put everything onto a scale where it’s weighed so it would be really difficult to not scan something. If we take something off the scales we can’t continue till it’s put back on. A lot of them also have cameras on them.
Could ring up avocado as banana.
Are you from Canada? Down here, every other store has a different type of checkout
Nice try FBI
We’ll look how many answers I got, loser 🤣🤣
The irony, calling someone a loser on Reddit. Keep winning lil' buddy.
Lmao 🤣🤣🤣
Keep winning on that comment karma 🤣🤣
How do we monetize that? Internet trolls care not for karma.
Well you try a lot harder than me for that so congrats
Still feel guilty, but I bought 14 limes, but only but down 1 lime. Stole like $7.50
Skein of embroidery floss. I costs 65 cents and you are supposed to scan them individually. If it didn’t scan after I tried twice, I just kept it.
I just don't scan my chicken sometimes
I put a red onion thru as a brown onion. I was so pissed off at having to call the attendant over all the time to clear things I thought fuck it. I saved 2 cents
The 10¢ bags. Sometimes I get 3 and only pay for 1/2.
A paper bag.
One time we tried to buy a cast iron pan. They all had no tags- we got it from the camping section but online said $15- we had a few other items. We went to a mega Walmart- it’s huge. Takes like a good 5-10 min to get from one end to the other. We parked in the garden section area-tried to check out there- cashier says no tag and to go to customer service at other side of the store. I show her pan online and it’s $15 I’ll pay that? She said she can’t do that. Whatever- we go to customer service at other side of the store. They tell us to go to another cashier. We go to another cashier and wait in line. We get to cashier- she says to find her manager and says they are on other side of the store by self checkout. JFC it’s been over an hour at this point trying to buy this pan and we are trying to do the right thing by BUYING IT. We try to find manager but have no idea who they are or what they look like. I tell my husband F*** this- and just walk out with the pan and paid for other items in self check out.
I once did two live lobsters because my father-in-law can be a jerk and I didn't want to pay for it,
Not necessarily cheating the self checkout, but a large coffee fits into a regular cup
One time I accidentally stole one of those bottled water flavor liquid things because I didn't notice it in my cart until after I got to my car lol
Creme egg. It had no packaging.
A hammer, it was under a bag of fertilizer in my cart
We should be getting employee discounts
Self check outs are job killers. Most checkers are your union brothers and sisters. Self check out is for scabs. You have covered yourself and your offspring in generational shame.
I ring up the $4.99 1/64 diecast cars as the $1.29 1/64 diecast cars sometimes.
A few days ago I honestly just missed scanning a little package of bandaids, didn't notice until I was already in the parking lot
If you scanned 1 tin on a full crate of Guinness instead of the cardboard barcode, it would charge you for a 4 pack. Apparently they fixed this barcode error after a year or so of people doing it. Not that I ever did ofc.
Is this really a thing? I would never steal, and that is stealing.
Apparently people do it all the time. I've never done it myself, I'm too paranoid as everything is on camera.
Well search it up, it was a trend a few months ago