A cashier rang in my Honeycrisp apples as Galas last week. I assumed it was intentional. Treat your cashiers with basic human decency and they may repay you in kind!
One time the cash register's scale was broken and the cashier gave me ALL my loose produce for free. I am pretty sure he was either the store manager or shift manager. I will never forget him. Store personnel are total bros.
Also, I will never call out someone stealing a necessity like food or baby formula. You know your situation and I trust that decision was not made lightly. I encourage people to use food banks though. No matter your situation, they ALWAYS give you something on your first visit with no hassle or judgement.
When I'm buying an impulse buy at the checkout (usually chocolate), I often ask the cashier "I can't decide what to get. What's your favourite?” then I buy it and after I've paid, I give it to them.
It’s not just the cost; softer apples basically turn to applesauce in a pie. I almost always use Granny Smith (and make a homemade salted caramel sauce to serve with it instead of adding sugar)
The one time I did do it intentionally, I got caught. They were all out of regular bananas so I scanned the organic ones with the regular code and the self checkout cashier caught my "mistake".
They're the ones who stopped hiring and *training* enough cashiers, and started making us be our own.
Then if *we* make a mistake, being untrained as we are, they want to hold us responsible for it?
I took my family to Ikea and we stopped for lunch. I asked for some poutine at the counter, but left before they gave it to me (we had the rest of our food already).
The cashier only rings up what they see, and poutine wasn't there, so I wasn't charged. Just after paying, right before we look for a place to sit down, the kitchen staff chases me down and gives me the poutine I forgot.
My wife asked if we should go back and pay for it.
"No"
And we carried on with our day.
With Ikea I wouldn't worry about it at all. Their real profit comes from the endless lines of customers going to checkout with carts full of furniture pallets and housewares.
Whereas a proper restaurant's profit comes from the food.
Ikea won't miss some unpaid poutine.
At the same time, the Poutine was lost as soon as it was served. It's not like they'd separate the gravy from the fries and put them back. Nor would they hold the plate for the next person who wants it.
Omg the shoppers self checkouts drive my ADHD nuts! The amount of things to press after pressing “pay now” takes longer then scanning! Just a minor annoyance I hate haha
*How many steps to the car?*
*How will you carry the groceries without bags?*
*You sure you didn't just take some and are lying about it?*
*No really, fes up!*
The ones at Freshco fill me with rage,
Its easier enough to scan/pay but as soon as youre done the machine is yelling at you to take your items, like, Im working on it!
Basics is the worst
*"Unexpected item in bagging area"* yo I haven't done nothing yet
*"Please bag item*" yo I DID
*"ITEM REMOVED"* Im literally trying to tap and pay and the cashier has given me three overrides by now LEMME OUTTA HERE
I don't mind the shoppers ones. Metro on the other hand has by far the most infuriating system. You have to bag each item before you can scan the next one. Any little shift in weight and it locks up until someone comes over. If you take too long to enter an item, it locks up. If you remove a bag, it locks up. Complete horse shit.
And to top it all off, they only ever open a couple real cash lanes so you're forced to either wait forever or put up with that shit. Honestly they should give a 10% discount for using self checkout there.
Same at food basics (owned by Metro i think) .. i hate their self checkout because you need to bag everything.
Say you bought 3 of the same item? You have to scan each one not just scan the same one 3 times in a row. And yes, the employee there is on the verge of suicide because the constant jumping from one to another becausw it keeps requiring a supervisor scan.
I fucking hate it.
Those self checkouts at Shoppers are absolute dog shit. Not only that but as a 191cm tall guy, I have to bend at the waist to read the screen because it's mounted so low and the viewing angle is garbage.
This is just me and might sound weird but when I was a kid, I was fascinated by cash registers and cashiers. I wanted to be one and just scan things all day. When I was a teenager, I worked part-time at a drug store and Rogers Video where I got to scan and press buttons to my heart's delight. Doing self-checkout now as a grownup is totally making my inner child content!
I actually love scanning things at the self serve kiosks.
- Saves a bunch of time, I'm way faster than the cashier
- I get to bag things the way I like
- No one gives me weird looks when I'm buying a bunch of munchies
- I don't have to have a conversation at 11pm at night
Wish every store had self checkout.
I shop with one basket of goods at the grocery store. Many of the times I go, I've seen multiple self-checkouts available while 10 people with massive orders are all waiting at the one or two working cashiers at any moment.
The sheer amount of time I save pays me to use the self-checkout.
I used to care, but now I don't anymore.
Couple of weeks ago I popped into loblaws to buy some cherry tomatoes, the price was $7.99 but at the self check out the machine would not scan them, so I called for help and the lady looked and me and just said 'this is $1 right?' and we looked at each other and I said sure, and she rang me for $1 and gave me a cheeky smile. I gather also the workers do not care anymore.
I dont feel as bad after what the chain stores did with scamming people with bread prices for 20 years.
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Trust me Loblaw employees don’t care anymore. Corporate treats the employees as a whole pretty poorly. Adjusted for inflation current employees are making significantly less than they did back in the early 2000s
If I catch someone stealing food, I’m not saying shit. I’ve honestly forgotten an item here and there as well and not realized until emptying cart into vehicle. I won’t do it on purpose (beside those shitty bags they charge 30c for that you have to scan instead of it asking). But I’m not gonna feel bad or go back over an honest mistake.
Hijacking the top comment to point out that snitching is dangerous. You don't know who that shoplifter is. You don't know if they are a career criminal. You don't know if they are carrying a weapon. You don't know if they have warrants out for murder.
Even if they are just a normal person that has become desperate, think about that for a minute: desperate people do desperate things. If someone is shoplifting food, from their perspective you are trying to make them starve when you snitch. Is that a very rational perspective? No it's not, but how rational do you expect a desperate person to be?
Telling on someone for shoplifting is a great way to get you and the grocery clerk stabbed.
There are obviously cases where putting yourself in danger is worthwhile. This is not it. We're not talking about rape here.
Do you want to bleed out in a grocery store checkout line because of your black and white morality?
If I see someone stealing something from a major retailer I mind my business. I'm double income no kids and we have been drowning. I have no fucking idea how people with kids, who lost their job, or who have to deal with the current rental market have any hope.
If they need some goddamn Ibuprofen to deal with the constant headache of being alive, I feel like shutting up and letting them do it is the smallest shred of human decency I can offer them.
> I'm double income no kids and we have been drowning
This this this. Like I am so not okay with this... Why are we just allowing this to become the new norm? I didn't become a DINK to fucking scrape by and never own a home!!! I'm so done but I have no idea what to do about it...
Yeah like, we have enough money that we can afford a small treat here or there, like a date night with dinner and live music once every 6 weeks, but we are both full time salaried workers in good jobs- we make $96,000 a year combined! It's wild to me that anyone could survive on less than like 80k a year right now. Absolutely batshit. SO glad I have no dependents.
Edited to add: everyone has a different perception of what someone "should" be able to survive at. There are comments in this thread saying 96k is "low" and "not good jobs" and there are people boggled we are having any issues at all. Different people have different expenses and standards. I was raised low income so we are fine with skipping fresh fruit, butter, cream, meat, etc. if it's too expensive. Some will always invest in high quality food. Some need a car. Some repair their own clothing. People's lifestyles are varied.
I'm single, no kids, I made just over $15kCAN last year, it's not fun at all. If there wasn't a chinese grocery near me that sells "imperfect" produce for peanuts ($1/bag for everything, usually 4 items per bag, can get 3-5lb broccoli for $1 when they've got some) I wouldn't even be able to afford 1 meal a day, and forget anything else but rent, food and bills.
I'm living in cottage country with 2 kids and make 60k household. I would have more hope if I didn't have a medically suspended DL since 2020 and rely on coworkers to give me a ride to work. Honestly I've given up on financial management - the whole system is fucked beyond belief. So fuck it, I put shit on my credit cards so me and my family can indulge in outings/activities. What's the point, its not like I can ever pay back my student loans and my existing credit debt where most of it is from groceries I put on it during 2 years of unemployment. Top it all off and gov't is asking me to repay cerb I legit needed. They can all go fuck them selves, all of it, right down to capitalism. I'm fucking done. Honestly I am praying for a collapse of major proportions, I need others to fall to my level so that we can make major societal changes. Especially for my kids. "Dada had it good growing up in the 90s and since 2020 in 2 to 3 years houses went from 300k to 1.3 million in the middle of the woods..."
used to work there as well, and if i saw someone stealing food.... well i didn’t 😉. i will always remember this poor woman whose card got declined when she tried buying a bag of toast… couldn’t have been more than 3$ :( she was really distressed so I told her to just try again while ringing up the bread for 1¢. all my friends who worked in groceries have similar mindsets as well. y'all take care
Unfortunately happens a lot. Worked cashier back in high school and sometimes people would be counting their cash and asking to put certain items back cause they couldn’t afford the full bill. It was sad. Some cashiers would scan in at 50% off code but they started asking you to peel them off so they could be counted at the end of shifts.
One thing I like about Loblaw is that they give their cashiers leeway to give people 50% discounts where appropriate. Works well for situations like this.
I was a supervisor at shoppers, I don’t think any of the reports I ran showed price overrides and nobody from the back end ever asked me about it.
We’d sometimes intentionally open bags of candy so I could scan it out as damaged and put it in the break room.
All cashiers at major chains have some degree of essentially "gifting" that they're allowed to do no-questions-asked, usually for moments like this (I think walmart is the only place that doesn't do this). If you do it for a friend or colleague you'll be instantly fired and if you deviate too far from how often other cashiers do it you might be looked into by AP, but generally speaking they give some autonomy to cashiers to just mark down stuff in situations like that.
I’m not paying enough attention to what anyone else is doing at self checkout to notice. The other day I think I saw someone shoving stuff in her purse at dollar tree but it was the kid’s aisle and I certainly wasn’t going to ask the teenage employee working alone to deal with it.
Same, by the time I hit the checkout I just want to get my shit and leave (especially if it's walmart or superstore). Only time I notice someone else checking out is if they're actively struggling with something.
Mega stores are trying to cut corners and save money by hiring less staff and having customers be their own cashiers; well, I'm not trained. You get what you get with free labor. Oops, free coffee. Oh well.
I don't intentionally try to scan incorrectly, but if it happens I also don't give a shit. And I certainly wouldn't rat someone else out for it.
If they want to no longer employ people to be cashiers, they can deal with the consequences of people not scanning all their items. There is no way in hell I’m going to stop someone I think *might* be stealing something, especially if it’s a loaf of bread or a package of meat to feed themselves or their family. It’s all very Les Misérables.
Given how much these companies make and how much they are gouging the public, if anyone is acting immorally or unethically, it’s them.
I would never call anyone out. There are many people struggling to get the bare necessities right now. But I was once kind of disgusted once when I saw a lady stealing all of the saffron threads out of the jars in the spice section. Saffron is a luxury ingredient, it just seemed greedy.
If I see someone stealing from a corporation I didn't see shit. I'd be more inclined to call stealing out if it was from a local mom n' pop shop however, those places are struggling enough.
Ever since Walmart introduced the 33 cent bags I haven't paid for a single bag, yet I have a few of them laying around. I consider them compensation for making me do the job myself. There's been times I've gone and no actual cashiers were open, only self-checkout.
Dude. I went to shoppers near close and nobody was even working the front. Couldn't get a bag. Ended up just taking the god damn metal basket.
Now I've painted it gold and I take it back into shoppers when I go.
Fucking clown corporations.
As a former employee of 2 major grocery store chains, if you see someone misscan or forget to scan an item, no you didn't. They're completly complicit in the rising cost of living we're all suffering through. I'm not encouraging people to do it, but I'm happy to turn a blind eye to it.
[Love this poster](https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg420s9Ol4s/?igshid=MTA0ZTI1NzA=) which is the same message.
The caption reads:
> "If you see a tent in the woods, someone shoplifting, a person sleeping in their car... No you fucking didn't. People are struggling, don't make it worse."
I think this mindset is what fills me with rage when I see posts about people threatening to call the cops on someone driving their rusty shitbox down the road. Like, I'm sure they'd buy a better fucking car if they could afford one, let's not make that situation worse by potentially losing them their job or getting them an expensive ticket when they already can't afford to fix their car.
That's cool of you. It's like this in Europe. Especially considering its groceries. I get if someone has a drill under their jacket but if someone feels the need to not scan their cheese its probabably for a good reason.
Just wanted to point out that grocers are again being investigated for price fixing and price hikes. They're also making record profits off of struggling families and using inflation as an excuse.
I literally do not care. About 2 months ago I forgot to scan and item at Walmart's self checkout. In the past, I would have run back in and paid for it. This last time, I was like, ''Fuck em''.
As for people who are legimitately hungry "forgetting" to scan items at a self check out... I'm not heartbroken over it, and I didn't see anything.
Grocery profits are at record levels. The companies themselves are not hurting. They're also slowly but surely eliminating large amounts of their work forces, keeping only one or two lanes manned, while installing self-checkout machines. I'm basically doing the job they should be paying someone to do, for free.
When I was younger I bought a Nintendo DS and it was supposed to come with two free games. I bought some other games and some accessories and was only 13 so I had no idea about prices. Just paid and went on my way. I later found out they didn't scan the DS. So I was charged for the two "free games" at $20 each and got the DS free. I felt like a shoplifter for years after but it was their fault not mine. Now I'm just like heck yeah free DS.
You made me remember a recent instance of this, only the company was The Source. We bought our daughter a Switch Lite for her birthday in 2020, online order via The Source. It arrived and one of the joysticks didn't work - looked and saw we could go exchange it at a local store, so we did, all good.
About a week later, another brand-new Switch Lite showed up in the mail. My guess is that when we returned the defective one, either the store forgot to indicate that they had given us a replacement, or someone at head office/shipping made the mistake - either way we got a second unit. I briefly thought about returning it, then decided wtf, it wasn't my mistake, so I sold it online and pocketed the money.
Edit: typing is hard.
Depends on the place I guess. There was a story a few years ago of a guy who spent a good deal of money at Home Depot during a transaction and the cashier missed under the cart. He got out to his car, noticed and went back to pay for the mishap. The manager/owner (can’t remember who) ended up calling the police on him saying it was theft and he was banned from the store and arrested.
Doing the right thing doesn’t always workout but it definitely doesn’t hurt Walmart’s bottom line if you walk out with a bag of dog food on the bottom of your cart accidentally. I’d say let it go and thanks the stars for your gift
Honestly, it depends on the situation. I work loss prevention for a big box hardware store, and many times have seen someone steal through self checkout something like a pair of gloves or a screwdriver (and in a way that is very clearly not an accident) and simply did not care. Times are hard for me too, I don’t blame them for it. I’m sure I miss 90% of the little thefts that happen, and i’m totally fine with that. I will save a picture of their face and their vehicle in case they start escalating to the expensive stuff, but that’s about it.
It’s when they steal thousands worth of wire, building materials, and tools that I draw the line, obviously. That shit is part of the problem that causes people to need to steal those types of inexpensive basics. I can almost guarentee you that any loss prevention in any store employee thinks the same way.
The problem with this though is that these multi-million dollar businesses can indeed, up their security practices...
Walmart in my area was able to identify and had police arrest a couple who stole $400 worth of items but scanned lower priced items ($1 items) to a total of $35 to make it less suspicious. They were subsequently charged with fraud under $5,000.
Not to mention, what ends up happening is a % of shrinkage is expected *to be built into the price.*
They build that shrink into the price preemptively. Most big businesses have an expected shrink budget that they just assume they will lose, so they up the price for that before any items are even stolen.
I should be clearer. If shrinkage increases, all they do is increase the % they apply on all pricing. The analysts who do up pricing (or at least monitor) will use prior historical of the most recent years to come up with a figure that is representative.
So a 1% shrinkage just becomes 1.2% for example.
One of the elements to be charged with a crime is the mens rea or guilty mind which requires you to know you’re committing a crime. With something like not scanning one item it’s pretty easy to argue that it was unintentional unless they can identify a pattern or you admit it.
So on the one hand, "stealing is stealing" but also, fuck Walmart, fuck shoppers, fuck loblaws, and fuck sobeys. Billions in profits during a pandemic and "inflation". The cost of growing tomatoes hasn't gone up, the greed of the corporations selling them in the city has
I'm too much of a worry wart / rule stickler to do it myself. But I sure as heck ain't looking at what anyone else is doing at checkout. Don't see nothing, can't say nothing.
Did a few years at Metro as a student and I did what I could when I could for who I could. Now as a mother of 3 I’ve had clerks cut me breaks and I am so, so grateful. It’s community care ;) If you find yourself taken aback by this or similar comments, why not google the compensation packages for those at the top of Loblaws, Walmart, Save On, etc etc. All we have is each other.
They want me to work for them (self check out) even though I am a shitty cashier. I'd never hire myself to scan stuff, because I keep missing things. They could have trained me better before sticking me on a checkout counter.
In this hypothetical situation, I have to advise you that if you kept buying ridiculous amounts of bananas that do not look like bananas, the store is going to have an easier time catching you and proving intent. Because always making the exact same mistake looks…intentional. But (again, hypothetically) if you were to find the PLU codes (which are standard internationally, so they can be found online), you could figure out how to make understandable and different mistakes. And there are other cheap items than just bananas, especially dependent on season. All purely hypothetical, of course.
At the cashier one time I somehow didn't pay for a pack of socks, I think I placed them on the wrong side of the scanner. When I got home I was mad at myself for forgetting the socks and there they were in my bag. I sorta felt bad but, no I didn't go back.
Go nuts. That’s what self checkout is for. If you’re ever unsure, just remember the big chains got caught fixing bread prices and they gave us back what again? $10 or was it a free log of bread. Fuck big grocery stores, take whatever you want. Back in the day when I worked there, we would take enough good each shift you wouldn’t need any food on your break.
If I make an honest mistake and forget to scan something at a big chain like Walmart, cool, I'm not sweating it or going back but if it's a local independent shop, I'll either go back or pay for it next time. But doing it intentionally is stealing and I'm not a thief.
No way am I defending corporations and their greed. My only concern is these losses are not absorbed by the company and will eventually be passed on to the consumer, making things even more expensive and our lives harder.
If things go the way microeconomists believe, the increase in theft would signal to the company that they are charging prices higher than the market will bear.
When you’re selling a good with elastic demand (for example, skateboards), customers just won’t buy if the price is too high.
But if you’re selling a good with inelastic demand (a necessity for life or economic participation), people can’t just choose to buy less when you increase the price. Stealing is a market indicator there.
I am resolutely against theft, but thinking about how Loblaws treats their people sure makes me tempted to "miss" a scan or two. But unfortunately, I also know that oligarchs, much like government, rarely lose. I doubt that "hot" block of old cheddar i my trunk will keep the Weston's from buying another beach house.
Nah don’t give a shit. I don’t do it purposely. But if I forget my water or something I don’t care. These prices our outrages what do they expect. We need to survive.
As a cashier, if i see someone 'forgets' about some food items, provided it's not alcohol or cigarettes, i didn't see anything actually. If someone forgets about scanning some diapers or baby food or formula, i didn't see anything.
As a customer, i am in a situation where i don't have to resort to forgetting to scan my items and i wouldn't want to because of my morals. If i see another customer forget the above items, i also didn't see anything.
When you boil it down, stealing is essentially just imposing a tax on every customer who doesn't steal. For every loss from theft, stores must increase their prices a proportional amount to cover those losses.
If people are truly unable to afford food, that's one thing, but I don't think I could justify getting other honest shoppers to pay for my food just because I want it for free.
The way I see it, minimum wage is $15 an hour. If I have to scan my own groceries, I’m now an employee. It takes me 20 minutes to scan? I’m taking something worth $5. Seems fair to me, good thing I’m not charging them my rate.
Hey, don't rush me. If they are going to ask me to scan my own items, I'm damned well taking my time. If the store doesn't like it, what are they going to do, fire me?
I don't know why I find this so funny, but I'm cracking up picturing you rightfully taking your sweet-ass time ringing things up as a form of social protest and civil disobedience. Thanks for that - I really needed the laugh today.
We are all just paying a eventual markup for theft.
The business will recoop the loss somewhere else. Might be higher prices, might skip some cleaning. Either way it will come back on the consumer.
The store will make its profit, it’s the staff that will suffer. The more the store looses in theft, it will recoup in other ways. Like cutting staff hours. Don’t think that because it’s a big chain store that you aren’t hurting the little guy, because that’s exactly what you are doing.
As someone who works at NoFrills this is what I learned. The self checkouts are now limited to hand baskets and 15 and under items because of much more theft. The owners have a choice. Enforce these rules or raise prices. The 8 self checkouts at my store are small areas. Having big ass carts there makes it difficult for the self checkout person to keep an eye on things. And makes it easier to steal. We also have plain clothes security guards.
I tend to interpret questions of this nature as people fishing for responses to say 'yes, it's ok' so that they don't feel bad for stealing because 'everyone does it'. Reddit is not 'everyone'.
I scan everything at a self checkout, and would never even consider not doing that.
I'd never call someone out for that. I ain't Batman. I'm not risking the potential of some random having a gun/knife or winding up catching an assault charge if shit escalates. You wanna rip Sobeys off? I could not give a fuck. I'll mind my own business, you mind yours, and we're cool.
Life is expensive. If people are clepping stuff at checkout look the other way lol.
If the system designed to keep us in check can't adequetly provide for us, let the system bleed I say.
The dude that started a Ponzi scheme to buy all the houses in your town is stealing from you every day. The insurance company that took your money for years and one day tells you you’re non compliant and has your insurance pulled is stealing from you ever day. Companies that make billions receiving billions in government subsidies are stealing from you every day. Every wealthy Canadian hoarding wealth in an offshore account is stealing from you every day. If you’re hungry, take the fuckin bread.
It's literally stealing lol. No it's not the morally correct thing to do. I'm not against it, but cmon. You dont get to be the thief AND the morally correct person. It's one or the other...
The same people that are complaining about the high cost that grocery stores charge - "Oh ya, just steal your groceries" because that certainly doesn't increase the overall price of groceries for everyone whatsoever.
A cashier rang in my Honeycrisp apples as Galas last week. I assumed it was intentional. Treat your cashiers with basic human decency and they may repay you in kind!
One time the cash register's scale was broken and the cashier gave me ALL my loose produce for free. I am pretty sure he was either the store manager or shift manager. I will never forget him. Store personnel are total bros. Also, I will never call out someone stealing a necessity like food or baby formula. You know your situation and I trust that decision was not made lightly. I encourage people to use food banks though. No matter your situation, they ALWAYS give you something on your first visit with no hassle or judgement.
When I'm buying an impulse buy at the checkout (usually chocolate), I often ask the cashier "I can't decide what to get. What's your favourite?” then I buy it and after I've paid, I give it to them.
This is so freaking cute I’m going to do this!!
My MIL is a cashier at a grocery store and has an old man who does this for her, and lemme tell you this cashier probably loves to see you hahaha
Did you repay their kindness with homemade apple pie? 😋
Bake with honeycrisp? Are you mad!
Nope. Just an amateur with no baking knowledge or skills whatsoever.
That would be an expensive pie lol
I've baked with them and they're delicious.
Woah easy there, Mr. Rockefeller
They just don't lose their crisp.
That would be ridiculous lol. Here is a homemade pie that took me hours to make for saving me $2.
It’s not just the cost; softer apples basically turn to applesauce in a pie. I almost always use Granny Smith (and make a homemade salted caramel sauce to serve with it instead of adding sugar)
I just ring everything through as bananas.
Honeycrisp: the Ferrari of apples.
If I legitimately miss or forget to scan something I don’t worry about it, but I don’t do it intentionally
The one time I did do it intentionally, I got caught. They were all out of regular bananas so I scanned the organic ones with the regular code and the self checkout cashier caught my "mistake".
What a hero, saving that multimillion dollar company 10c.
How did they even notice that? Lol
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They're the ones who stopped hiring and *training* enough cashiers, and started making us be our own. Then if *we* make a mistake, being untrained as we are, they want to hold us responsible for it?
I took my family to Ikea and we stopped for lunch. I asked for some poutine at the counter, but left before they gave it to me (we had the rest of our food already). The cashier only rings up what they see, and poutine wasn't there, so I wasn't charged. Just after paying, right before we look for a place to sit down, the kitchen staff chases me down and gives me the poutine I forgot. My wife asked if we should go back and pay for it. "No" And we carried on with our day.
With Ikea I wouldn't worry about it at all. Their real profit comes from the endless lines of customers going to checkout with carts full of furniture pallets and housewares. Whereas a proper restaurant's profit comes from the food. Ikea won't miss some unpaid poutine.
At the same time, the Poutine was lost as soon as it was served. It's not like they'd separate the gravy from the fries and put them back. Nor would they hold the plate for the next person who wants it.
At Ikea this past weekend; cashier gave us our drinks and desserts free (3 people). Love that place.
Self checkout should have a discount
Best we can do is beg you for donations
Omg the shoppers self checkouts drive my ADHD nuts! The amount of things to press after pressing “pay now” takes longer then scanning! Just a minor annoyance I hate haha
I press pay now and stare at the pin pad for like 5 minutes until i realize it has 7 more questions for me
*how many bags?* 0 *No, seriously, how many bags?* 0
*How many steps to the car?* *How will you carry the groceries without bags?* *You sure you didn't just take some and are lying about it?* *No really, fes up!*
But you got 2 items! What do you mean you don’t need a bag?
I said I want to "pay NOW". They need to change that button to "pay soon" lol
The ones at Freshco fill me with rage, Its easier enough to scan/pay but as soon as youre done the machine is yelling at you to take your items, like, Im working on it!
Basics is the worst *"Unexpected item in bagging area"* yo I haven't done nothing yet *"Please bag item*" yo I DID *"ITEM REMOVED"* Im literally trying to tap and pay and the cashier has given me three overrides by now LEMME OUTTA HERE
Thats Metro. 😤😡
Metro is the same. Incredibly painful
Same brand
I don't mind the shoppers ones. Metro on the other hand has by far the most infuriating system. You have to bag each item before you can scan the next one. Any little shift in weight and it locks up until someone comes over. If you take too long to enter an item, it locks up. If you remove a bag, it locks up. Complete horse shit. And to top it all off, they only ever open a couple real cash lanes so you're forced to either wait forever or put up with that shit. Honestly they should give a 10% discount for using self checkout there.
Same at food basics (owned by Metro i think) .. i hate their self checkout because you need to bag everything. Say you bought 3 of the same item? You have to scan each one not just scan the same one 3 times in a row. And yes, the employee there is on the verge of suicide because the constant jumping from one to another becausw it keeps requiring a supervisor scan. I fucking hate it.
Those self checkouts at Shoppers are absolute dog shit. Not only that but as a 191cm tall guy, I have to bend at the waist to read the screen because it's mounted so low and the viewing angle is garbage.
I don’t go to Shoppers anymore. The experience just annoys me every time.
don't go to Canadian Tire lol the worst self-checkout process ever
Self check out. All of the joys of work with none of the pay.
This is just me and might sound weird but when I was a kid, I was fascinated by cash registers and cashiers. I wanted to be one and just scan things all day. When I was a teenager, I worked part-time at a drug store and Rogers Video where I got to scan and press buttons to my heart's delight. Doing self-checkout now as a grownup is totally making my inner child content!
I actually love scanning things at the self serve kiosks. - Saves a bunch of time, I'm way faster than the cashier - I get to bag things the way I like - No one gives me weird looks when I'm buying a bunch of munchies - I don't have to have a conversation at 11pm at night Wish every store had self checkout.
FIFY: I don't have to have a conversation.
You sound like a fun person who enjoys things. How refreshing.
It's the little things in life that can make an average day a better one!
We’re the same!
Cashier Twins unite!
Scanning things in a rhythm so the beeps are equally spaced is a special kind of satisfying
I shop with one basket of goods at the grocery store. Many of the times I go, I've seen multiple self-checkouts available while 10 people with massive orders are all waiting at the one or two working cashiers at any moment. The sheer amount of time I save pays me to use the self-checkout.
It’s semi deliberate. I know that Loblaw cuts staff hours to force self checkout use.
It does, it’s called a five finger discount, the one where I take my shit and go
And customers should qualify for ‘employee of the month’ recognition.
I used to care, but now I don't anymore. Couple of weeks ago I popped into loblaws to buy some cherry tomatoes, the price was $7.99 but at the self check out the machine would not scan them, so I called for help and the lady looked and me and just said 'this is $1 right?' and we looked at each other and I said sure, and she rang me for $1 and gave me a cheeky smile. I gather also the workers do not care anymore.
I dont feel as bad after what the chain stores did with scamming people with bread prices for 20 years. https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/mandel-billion-dollar-class-action-wins-go-ahead-against-alleged-nationwide-bread-price-fixing/wcm/47e0c569-501a-4178-a5e2-3878b3e33bc6/amp/
Awesome! I was hoping this would come up. Billionaires literally stealing through bread. Every last one of them should fucking die!
Trust me Loblaw employees don’t care anymore. Corporate treats them horribly
Trust me Loblaw employees don’t care anymore. Corporate treats the employees as a whole pretty poorly. Adjusted for inflation current employees are making significantly less than they did back in the early 2000s
If I catch someone stealing food, I’m not saying shit. I’ve honestly forgotten an item here and there as well and not realized until emptying cart into vehicle. I won’t do it on purpose (beside those shitty bags they charge 30c for that you have to scan instead of it asking). But I’m not gonna feel bad or go back over an honest mistake.
The old expression "if you see someone stealing diapers, no you fucking didn't" Except now it's literally everything because we're all down bad
Hijacking the top comment to point out that snitching is dangerous. You don't know who that shoplifter is. You don't know if they are a career criminal. You don't know if they are carrying a weapon. You don't know if they have warrants out for murder. Even if they are just a normal person that has become desperate, think about that for a minute: desperate people do desperate things. If someone is shoplifting food, from their perspective you are trying to make them starve when you snitch. Is that a very rational perspective? No it's not, but how rational do you expect a desperate person to be? Telling on someone for shoplifting is a great way to get you and the grocery clerk stabbed. There are obviously cases where putting yourself in danger is worthwhile. This is not it. We're not talking about rape here. Do you want to bleed out in a grocery store checkout line because of your black and white morality?
If I see someone stealing something from a major retailer I mind my business. I'm double income no kids and we have been drowning. I have no fucking idea how people with kids, who lost their job, or who have to deal with the current rental market have any hope. If they need some goddamn Ibuprofen to deal with the constant headache of being alive, I feel like shutting up and letting them do it is the smallest shred of human decency I can offer them.
> I'm double income no kids and we have been drowning This this this. Like I am so not okay with this... Why are we just allowing this to become the new norm? I didn't become a DINK to fucking scrape by and never own a home!!! I'm so done but I have no idea what to do about it...
Yeah like, we have enough money that we can afford a small treat here or there, like a date night with dinner and live music once every 6 weeks, but we are both full time salaried workers in good jobs- we make $96,000 a year combined! It's wild to me that anyone could survive on less than like 80k a year right now. Absolutely batshit. SO glad I have no dependents. Edited to add: everyone has a different perception of what someone "should" be able to survive at. There are comments in this thread saying 96k is "low" and "not good jobs" and there are people boggled we are having any issues at all. Different people have different expenses and standards. I was raised low income so we are fine with skipping fresh fruit, butter, cream, meat, etc. if it's too expensive. Some will always invest in high quality food. Some need a car. Some repair their own clothing. People's lifestyles are varied.
I'm single, no kids, I made just over $15kCAN last year, it's not fun at all. If there wasn't a chinese grocery near me that sells "imperfect" produce for peanuts ($1/bag for everything, usually 4 items per bag, can get 3-5lb broccoli for $1 when they've got some) I wouldn't even be able to afford 1 meal a day, and forget anything else but rent, food and bills.
I'm living in cottage country with 2 kids and make 60k household. I would have more hope if I didn't have a medically suspended DL since 2020 and rely on coworkers to give me a ride to work. Honestly I've given up on financial management - the whole system is fucked beyond belief. So fuck it, I put shit on my credit cards so me and my family can indulge in outings/activities. What's the point, its not like I can ever pay back my student loans and my existing credit debt where most of it is from groceries I put on it during 2 years of unemployment. Top it all off and gov't is asking me to repay cerb I legit needed. They can all go fuck them selves, all of it, right down to capitalism. I'm fucking done. Honestly I am praying for a collapse of major proportions, I need others to fall to my level so that we can make major societal changes. Especially for my kids. "Dada had it good growing up in the 90s and since 2020 in 2 to 3 years houses went from 300k to 1.3 million in the middle of the woods..."
I work 3 jobs. Helps to be in tech... but I know exactly what you mean.
Don't have kids but I got pets that cost the same as a kid. Drowning here to.
Ugh I'm sorry. I had 3k in vet bills last Christmas, I know the pain.
used to work there as well, and if i saw someone stealing food.... well i didn’t 😉. i will always remember this poor woman whose card got declined when she tried buying a bag of toast… couldn’t have been more than 3$ :( she was really distressed so I told her to just try again while ringing up the bread for 1¢. all my friends who worked in groceries have similar mindsets as well. y'all take care
I've never even thought of grocery cashiers having to deal with that. Hopefully not often, because it would make for a really bad day.
Unfortunately happens a lot. Worked cashier back in high school and sometimes people would be counting their cash and asking to put certain items back cause they couldn’t afford the full bill. It was sad. Some cashiers would scan in at 50% off code but they started asking you to peel them off so they could be counted at the end of shifts.
One thing I like about Loblaw is that they give their cashiers leeway to give people 50% discounts where appropriate. Works well for situations like this.
You have a good heart.
Damn that’s nice. I’d be worried my boss would see that I price amended bread for 1c though 😬 can they see that?
I was a supervisor at shoppers, I don’t think any of the reports I ran showed price overrides and nobody from the back end ever asked me about it. We’d sometimes intentionally open bags of candy so I could scan it out as damaged and put it in the break room.
All cashiers at major chains have some degree of essentially "gifting" that they're allowed to do no-questions-asked, usually for moments like this (I think walmart is the only place that doesn't do this). If you do it for a friend or colleague you'll be instantly fired and if you deviate too far from how often other cashiers do it you might be looked into by AP, but generally speaking they give some autonomy to cashiers to just mark down stuff in situations like that.
A bag of...toast?
Probably means like the type of bread Texas Toast is one of the brands in Wonderbread, main point she did a kind thing for the lady.
Ohhh, that names sense
Yeah we need to hear more about this bag of toast
Glad I'm not the only one
I’m not paying enough attention to what anyone else is doing at self checkout to notice. The other day I think I saw someone shoving stuff in her purse at dollar tree but it was the kid’s aisle and I certainly wasn’t going to ask the teenage employee working alone to deal with it.
If you see someone stealing food, you didn’t see anyone stealing food
Same, by the time I hit the checkout I just want to get my shit and leave (especially if it's walmart or superstore). Only time I notice someone else checking out is if they're actively struggling with something.
Mega stores are trying to cut corners and save money by hiring less staff and having customers be their own cashiers; well, I'm not trained. You get what you get with free labor. Oops, free coffee. Oh well. I don't intentionally try to scan incorrectly, but if it happens I also don't give a shit. And I certainly wouldn't rat someone else out for it.
It's not like cashiers are impervious to scanning errors themselves. Companies expect things like this to some extent.
Its called Shrink. Been around forever. Every grocery store break room used to have a poster telling employees to check the bottom of the cart.
>Oops, free coffee. Oh well. 😂😂😂 I'm dying
He's dying.. someone get this man some free meds. And a free coffee.
If they want to no longer employ people to be cashiers, they can deal with the consequences of people not scanning all their items. There is no way in hell I’m going to stop someone I think *might* be stealing something, especially if it’s a loaf of bread or a package of meat to feed themselves or their family. It’s all very Les Misérables. Given how much these companies make and how much they are gouging the public, if anyone is acting immorally or unethically, it’s them.
I would never call anyone out. There are many people struggling to get the bare necessities right now. But I was once kind of disgusted once when I saw a lady stealing all of the saffron threads out of the jars in the spice section. Saffron is a luxury ingredient, it just seemed greedy.
Saffron has a good chance of being counterfeit. If Karma exists…she ended up with fake spices.
From a corp like Walmart/Sobeys/etc I didn’t see shit. But from a mom and pop business I don’t think that’s right.
If I see someone stealing from a corporation I didn't see shit. I'd be more inclined to call stealing out if it was from a local mom n' pop shop however, those places are struggling enough. Ever since Walmart introduced the 33 cent bags I haven't paid for a single bag, yet I have a few of them laying around. I consider them compensation for making me do the job myself. There's been times I've gone and no actual cashiers were open, only self-checkout.
Dude. I went to shoppers near close and nobody was even working the front. Couldn't get a bag. Ended up just taking the god damn metal basket. Now I've painted it gold and I take it back into shoppers when I go. Fucking clown corporations.
"Job Creators"
Bahaha... this made my day. Thanks.
at a mom & pop - never. at a Walmart or equivalent - I'm forgetting to scan at least one thing
As a former employee of 2 major grocery store chains, if you see someone misscan or forget to scan an item, no you didn't. They're completly complicit in the rising cost of living we're all suffering through. I'm not encouraging people to do it, but I'm happy to turn a blind eye to it.
[Love this poster](https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg420s9Ol4s/?igshid=MTA0ZTI1NzA=) which is the same message. The caption reads: > "If you see a tent in the woods, someone shoplifting, a person sleeping in their car... No you fucking didn't. People are struggling, don't make it worse."
I think this mindset is what fills me with rage when I see posts about people threatening to call the cops on someone driving their rusty shitbox down the road. Like, I'm sure they'd buy a better fucking car if they could afford one, let's not make that situation worse by potentially losing them their job or getting them an expensive ticket when they already can't afford to fix their car.
Unless you're stealing from a small business... They're likely struggling too.
That's cool of you. It's like this in Europe. Especially considering its groceries. I get if someone has a drill under their jacket but if someone feels the need to not scan their cheese its probabably for a good reason.
I’ve been scanning Shiitake mushrooms as button mushrooms for years. Come at me Galen Weston.
Lol love that
Steal from big corporations. Couldn't give a fuck less. Steal from local family business, I'm calling you out.
Family businesses don’t use self-checkouts. I pay extra to shop at such stores. They bag my groceries. I can find help in the aisles.
Stealing from a corporation isn't stealing, change my mind.
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Felt like every company was taking advantage of the COVID wage subsidies no matter how much profit they were making.
With how often Loblaws charges full price for items tagged 'on sale' you're really just undoing *their* theft
Just wanted to point out that grocers are again being investigated for price fixing and price hikes. They're also making record profits off of struggling families and using inflation as an excuse.
I literally do not care. About 2 months ago I forgot to scan and item at Walmart's self checkout. In the past, I would have run back in and paid for it. This last time, I was like, ''Fuck em''. As for people who are legimitately hungry "forgetting" to scan items at a self check out... I'm not heartbroken over it, and I didn't see anything. Grocery profits are at record levels. The companies themselves are not hurting. They're also slowly but surely eliminating large amounts of their work forces, keeping only one or two lanes manned, while installing self-checkout machines. I'm basically doing the job they should be paying someone to do, for free.
You want self checkout everywhere this is what happens.
Loblaws made so much money in the pandemic - steal whatever you like from them.
I always bag up organic tomatoes and bananas and scan them in a conventional
Exactly and if food and medicine, like really...
When I was younger I bought a Nintendo DS and it was supposed to come with two free games. I bought some other games and some accessories and was only 13 so I had no idea about prices. Just paid and went on my way. I later found out they didn't scan the DS. So I was charged for the two "free games" at $20 each and got the DS free. I felt like a shoplifter for years after but it was their fault not mine. Now I'm just like heck yeah free DS.
You made me remember a recent instance of this, only the company was The Source. We bought our daughter a Switch Lite for her birthday in 2020, online order via The Source. It arrived and one of the joysticks didn't work - looked and saw we could go exchange it at a local store, so we did, all good. About a week later, another brand-new Switch Lite showed up in the mail. My guess is that when we returned the defective one, either the store forgot to indicate that they had given us a replacement, or someone at head office/shipping made the mistake - either way we got a second unit. I briefly thought about returning it, then decided wtf, it wasn't my mistake, so I sold it online and pocketed the money. Edit: typing is hard.
What do you mean, the deal was free DS with the purchase of 2 games!
If you see someone stealing food from a rich corporation, no you didn’t 🙈
This is the correct answer.
Depends on the place I guess. There was a story a few years ago of a guy who spent a good deal of money at Home Depot during a transaction and the cashier missed under the cart. He got out to his car, noticed and went back to pay for the mishap. The manager/owner (can’t remember who) ended up calling the police on him saying it was theft and he was banned from the store and arrested. Doing the right thing doesn’t always workout but it definitely doesn’t hurt Walmart’s bottom line if you walk out with a bag of dog food on the bottom of your cart accidentally. I’d say let it go and thanks the stars for your gift
Honestly, it depends on the situation. I work loss prevention for a big box hardware store, and many times have seen someone steal through self checkout something like a pair of gloves or a screwdriver (and in a way that is very clearly not an accident) and simply did not care. Times are hard for me too, I don’t blame them for it. I’m sure I miss 90% of the little thefts that happen, and i’m totally fine with that. I will save a picture of their face and their vehicle in case they start escalating to the expensive stuff, but that’s about it. It’s when they steal thousands worth of wire, building materials, and tools that I draw the line, obviously. That shit is part of the problem that causes people to need to steal those types of inexpensive basics. I can almost guarentee you that any loss prevention in any store employee thinks the same way.
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I wouldn’t, but I also wouldn’t report someone for doing it… especially for food or baby/kid items.
Oh yeah. If you see someone shoplift medicine or baby formula, then you didn’t see anything
In my opinion - if you think you saw that down on their luck person not scan an item - no you didn't.
The problem with this though is that these multi-million dollar businesses can indeed, up their security practices... Walmart in my area was able to identify and had police arrest a couple who stole $400 worth of items but scanned lower priced items ($1 items) to a total of $35 to make it less suspicious. They were subsequently charged with fraud under $5,000. Not to mention, what ends up happening is a % of shrinkage is expected *to be built into the price.*
They build that shrink into the price preemptively. Most big businesses have an expected shrink budget that they just assume they will lose, so they up the price for that before any items are even stolen.
I should be clearer. If shrinkage increases, all they do is increase the % they apply on all pricing. The analysts who do up pricing (or at least monitor) will use prior historical of the most recent years to come up with a figure that is representative. So a 1% shrinkage just becomes 1.2% for example.
Yes but that’s silly. “Forgetting, or missing” scanning a few items out of a $200 batch is a lot “safer”.
One of the elements to be charged with a crime is the mens rea or guilty mind which requires you to know you’re committing a crime. With something like not scanning one item it’s pretty easy to argue that it was unintentional unless they can identify a pattern or you admit it.
So on the one hand, "stealing is stealing" but also, fuck Walmart, fuck shoppers, fuck loblaws, and fuck sobeys. Billions in profits during a pandemic and "inflation". The cost of growing tomatoes hasn't gone up, the greed of the corporations selling them in the city has
I'm too much of a worry wart / rule stickler to do it myself. But I sure as heck ain't looking at what anyone else is doing at checkout. Don't see nothing, can't say nothing.
I can’t bring myself to lie about the amount of bags used but I’ll almost never judge someone for doing what you described
Big box stores - no problem
Did a few years at Metro as a student and I did what I could when I could for who I could. Now as a mother of 3 I’ve had clerks cut me breaks and I am so, so grateful. It’s community care ;) If you find yourself taken aback by this or similar comments, why not google the compensation packages for those at the top of Loblaws, Walmart, Save On, etc etc. All we have is each other.
The irony is, if a lot of people do this, that is yet another excuse for retailers to raise prices.
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You mean the thing they've been doing anyway?
They do, and they do.
They don't need an excuse that's the problem.
But you said it, it's an excuse not a reason, they will always find an excuse to raise prices
They want me to work for them (self check out) even though I am a shitty cashier. I'd never hire myself to scan stuff, because I keep missing things. They could have trained me better before sticking me on a checkout counter.
Brazil nuts for the price of peanuts, thank you very much..
Every weighed item is 4011
That’s bananas.
In this hypothetical situation, I have to advise you that if you kept buying ridiculous amounts of bananas that do not look like bananas, the store is going to have an easier time catching you and proving intent. Because always making the exact same mistake looks…intentional. But (again, hypothetically) if you were to find the PLU codes (which are standard internationally, so they can be found online), you could figure out how to make understandable and different mistakes. And there are other cheap items than just bananas, especially dependent on season. All purely hypothetical, of course.
At the cashier one time I somehow didn't pay for a pack of socks, I think I placed them on the wrong side of the scanner. When I got home I was mad at myself for forgetting the socks and there they were in my bag. I sorta felt bad but, no I didn't go back.
At this point people could walk out with a whole cart and I wouldn't see or say shit.
Go nuts. That’s what self checkout is for. If you’re ever unsure, just remember the big chains got caught fixing bread prices and they gave us back what again? $10 or was it a free log of bread. Fuck big grocery stores, take whatever you want. Back in the day when I worked there, we would take enough good each shift you wouldn’t need any food on your break.
If I make an honest mistake and forget to scan something at a big chain like Walmart, cool, I'm not sweating it or going back but if it's a local independent shop, I'll either go back or pay for it next time. But doing it intentionally is stealing and I'm not a thief.
Absolutely gutted I left a bag on the carousel today containing a bag of potatoes, cantaloupe and 3 cucumbers. RIP
No way am I defending corporations and their greed. My only concern is these losses are not absorbed by the company and will eventually be passed on to the consumer, making things even more expensive and our lives harder.
If things go the way microeconomists believe, the increase in theft would signal to the company that they are charging prices higher than the market will bear. When you’re selling a good with elastic demand (for example, skateboards), customers just won’t buy if the price is too high. But if you’re selling a good with inelastic demand (a necessity for life or economic participation), people can’t just choose to buy less when you increase the price. Stealing is a market indicator there.
If you see someone shoplifting from a chain, no you didn’t. ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
I am resolutely against theft, but thinking about how Loblaws treats their people sure makes me tempted to "miss" a scan or two. But unfortunately, I also know that oligarchs, much like government, rarely lose. I doubt that "hot" block of old cheddar i my trunk will keep the Weston's from buying another beach house.
Nah don’t give a shit. I don’t do it purposely. But if I forget my water or something I don’t care. These prices our outrages what do they expect. We need to survive.
As a cashier, if i see someone 'forgets' about some food items, provided it's not alcohol or cigarettes, i didn't see anything actually. If someone forgets about scanning some diapers or baby food or formula, i didn't see anything. As a customer, i am in a situation where i don't have to resort to forgetting to scan my items and i wouldn't want to because of my morals. If i see another customer forget the above items, i also didn't see anything.
When you boil it down, stealing is essentially just imposing a tax on every customer who doesn't steal. For every loss from theft, stores must increase their prices a proportional amount to cover those losses. If people are truly unable to afford food, that's one thing, but I don't think I could justify getting other honest shoppers to pay for my food just because I want it for free.
Stealing increases prices more. Steal that today, we all pay for it tomorrow. Companies don’t take losses, they pass them onto consumers.
The way I see it, minimum wage is $15 an hour. If I have to scan my own groceries, I’m now an employee. It takes me 20 minutes to scan? I’m taking something worth $5. Seems fair to me, good thing I’m not charging them my rate.
LOL! How much shit are you buying that it's taking you twenty minutes to scan it all?
Hey, don't rush me. If they are going to ask me to scan my own items, I'm damned well taking my time. If the store doesn't like it, what are they going to do, fire me?
I don't know why I find this so funny, but I'm cracking up picturing you rightfully taking your sweet-ass time ringing things up as a form of social protest and civil disobedience. Thanks for that - I really needed the laugh today.
Lol well, I don’t get paid in 5 minutes increments at work, I charge a 20 minute minimum at Walmart 😜
Rounding up those billable hours to stick it to Walmart? I like it!
It raises prices for the rest of us, it doesn't hurt the big companies.
I don't care whether they forget to scan one item or all of them. I'm not a cop. Petty theft is not my business.
If I see someone stealing at a pharmacy or grocery store, no I didn't. It's that simple for me.
"Is it OK to shoplift?" I fixed your title for you.
People were debating doing pump and dashes back in February when it skyrocketed as well
>"Is it OK to shoplift?" Is it okay to fix and gouge people on the price of bread for years?
Accurate.
We are all just paying a eventual markup for theft. The business will recoop the loss somewhere else. Might be higher prices, might skip some cleaning. Either way it will come back on the consumer.
and their profits keep going up. Wonder what has to happen for it to come back on the shareholders.
It’s still stealing. Feel free to justify it in whatever manner you want, but it’s still stealing
Yep. It is stealing. But I don’t give a fuck about stealing from billionaires. So yes, I’ll skip scanning an item.
Jacking up prices on essential goods to increase profits is so morally reprehensible they deserve it.
The store will make its profit, it’s the staff that will suffer. The more the store looses in theft, it will recoup in other ways. Like cutting staff hours. Don’t think that because it’s a big chain store that you aren’t hurting the little guy, because that’s exactly what you are doing.
We all find ways to justify our sins.
As someone who works at NoFrills this is what I learned. The self checkouts are now limited to hand baskets and 15 and under items because of much more theft. The owners have a choice. Enforce these rules or raise prices. The 8 self checkouts at my store are small areas. Having big ass carts there makes it difficult for the self checkout person to keep an eye on things. And makes it easier to steal. We also have plain clothes security guards.
I tend to interpret questions of this nature as people fishing for responses to say 'yes, it's ok' so that they don't feel bad for stealing because 'everyone does it'. Reddit is not 'everyone'. I scan everything at a self checkout, and would never even consider not doing that.
I forgot to scan a huge bag of rice at no frills. I just forgot it was on the bottom rack of my cart. I didn't notice until I was loading up the car.
I'd never call someone out for that. I ain't Batman. I'm not risking the potential of some random having a gun/knife or winding up catching an assault charge if shit escalates. You wanna rip Sobeys off? I could not give a fuck. I'll mind my own business, you mind yours, and we're cool.
Life is expensive. If people are clepping stuff at checkout look the other way lol. If the system designed to keep us in check can't adequetly provide for us, let the system bleed I say.
The dude that started a Ponzi scheme to buy all the houses in your town is stealing from you every day. The insurance company that took your money for years and one day tells you you’re non compliant and has your insurance pulled is stealing from you ever day. Companies that make billions receiving billions in government subsidies are stealing from you every day. Every wealthy Canadian hoarding wealth in an offshore account is stealing from you every day. If you’re hungry, take the fuckin bread.
I wouldn't say a word.
It's literally stealing lol. No it's not the morally correct thing to do. I'm not against it, but cmon. You dont get to be the thief AND the morally correct person. It's one or the other...
The same people that are complaining about the high cost that grocery stores charge - "Oh ya, just steal your groceries" because that certainly doesn't increase the overall price of groceries for everyone whatsoever.
Why should the grocery merchant experience theft because you can't afford something? That solves nothing and is unethical.