Disclaimer: this is just a meme.
You ever buy the cheap wine, pull off the barcode and bring it back to the store, then buy the fancy expensive stuff with the cheap barcode over the top. They never notice, wine bottles all look the same to them.
The term for that is “slap tagging.”
When I ran the Marine Department at a major outdoor retailer, I was always fighting the warehouse team because they’d just roll out a high-end sonar unit in a cart for my people to stock and walk away, and there were people who would slap that them as shitty units from the same company, and the cashier wouldn’t notice the difference between a Garmin 4CV (about $100) and a Garmin 8612 (about $5000).
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Crazy how all bananas grow with the same code on their sticker…
If you see the slow motion/time lapse of the sticker blossoming, it’s life reaffirming. Fucking beautiful.
Clerk: “Um, sir, that doesn’t look like a banana. Are you sure you entered the right code?”
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The jig is up. Run
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Apologize profusely
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[Rhetoric: Heroic 15] Convince the clerk you don’t know what fruits are
EVEN 58%
+1 You look terribly frazzled
This is a Red Check. It can not be retried
Rhetoric: [Heroic: Success] “Is this not a banana?” You say in the most genuine tone you can muster
Savior Faire: You may have been caught, but you managed to feign enough innocence to get trouble off your backThe clerk gives a dumbfounded expression
Clerk: “Uhm, no sir, that is an avocado, not a banana”
Half-Light: She is too terrified of your empty skull to properly correct you on thisEncyclopedia: It is in fact *not* a banana. A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa. In some countries, bananas used for cooking may be called “plantains”, distinguishing them from dessert bananas. The fruit is variable in size, color, and firmness, but is usually elongated and curved, with soft flesh rich in starch covered with a rind, which may be green, yellow, red, purple, or brown when ripe. The fruits grow upward in clusters near the top of the plant. Almost all modern edible seedless (parthenocarp) bananas come from two wild species – Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana. The scientific names of most cultivated bananas are Musa acuminata, Musa balbisiana, and Musa × paradisiaca for the hybrid Musa acuminata × M. balbisiana, depending on their genomic constitution. The old scientific name for this hybrid, Musa sapientum, is no longer used.
Oh shit I’m gonna replay it again
Just played Disco Elysium for the first time and this comment makes more sense now lol
>me arguing with the self checkout override Lady
: "I just wanna buy these roma tomatoes "
: “Avocados aren’t red”
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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 🤦
It’s strange how the disproportionality of wealth makes theft seem ok.
Its not that. It’s people taking some payment for having to do the store’s job for them.
Geee, I wonder what would happen if they paid someone to run your products through and then give you a total at the end so that you may pay…
How are billionaires that fuckjng stupid? Oh yeah. They can afford to be.
I’m surprised we haven’t gotten “don’t do this they keep track with cameras until they can charge you with a felony” guy in here yet
So has that ever been debunked? I’m curious how such a system would work but it sounds like fearmongering.
The technology exists. It isn’t that difficult to implement facial tracking on security cameras and maintain a file on shoplifters. Even across multiple stores.
I can’t answer your question, but it is certainly plausible.
Hmm that is scary. I guess face recognition isn’t the only factor either. The way you walk is also quite unique apparently. Like the angle of your feet, how high they go, step size etc
Hmm. Not that I’d risk shoplifting or anything but it’s interesting what companies do against it.
You do know how much water is wasted to produce avocados, right? 💧
If I stop buying them, will that solve a problem?
Did a bit of googling. Found this article:
https://www.greenmatters.com/p/avocado-environmental-impactLooks like the main issue is that they tend to be grown in areas that may be prone to drought, so there’s a concern that they may deprive the community of water.
The same article also says:
“Monoculture crops like avocados wind up drawing all the nutrients from the soil, slowly degrading it year after year. This makes the soil less fertile over time until it is no longer viable for growing”.
So yeah, buying avocados is pretty much a sin against nature.
That’s just irresponsible farming. It can happen with almost any crop.
You can take my almonds and my beef, but not avocados. That’s the line.
I accept your almonds and beef.
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.
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.
I use self checkout because I don’t want to fake a conversation with the cashier.
LOL companies actually encourage this fake bullshit. It’s called “adding value to the relationship” Bet you didn’t realize that someone putting your canned beans and tampons into paper bags constituted a relationship.
Where I live cashiers don’t bag your stuff. I wouldn’t consider that a default
Yep this depends on the store.
ps. You should never use self checkout. We’ve all been tricked into thinking we can do it better/faster ourselves.
Fuck off, it’s faster for me and I vastly prefer it. Quicker, less need to deal with other people and there’s no rush to bag your stuff. If you don’t want to use self-checkout then don’t.
Because the companies get free labor. I refuse unless it’s legit rush for something.
I wonder if people were pissed off that they had to go through the shop picking up products instead of having the shopkeeper do that for them.
Maybe, but I like being able to shop for myself. I want to look over my produce and meats.
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
It’s all fun and games until you are banned from the local grocery stores .Loss prevention is pretty good these days. It’s the Internet though, they really aren’t stealing. It’s internet tough guy shit.
I was at one and moved an unscanned item to close to the bagging area and the screen froze then showed an areal cam of me getting too close to the bagging area.
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
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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Well that was cringy even though I agree with the sentiment
Next year we cry about living in a “food desert”
