Any Carrot Swappers Among Ab Shoppers?

[sandyRoe]

Get to the self service tills and select carrots while weighing more expensive vegetables.

[Baldric]

Eh ?

[hereIam]

Don't understand ..

[Mamyalynne]

Never done that - I don't use the self service tills either.

[gness]

Ooooo....naughty, Sandy!

[Patsy33]

Being dishonest you mean??

[hereIam]

Ah I'm with you now. NO!

[maggiebee]

Tee hee, you're a naughty boy Sandy.

[kvalidir]

No but I'm a random dabber if I can't see what I've chosen and get impatient :)

[sandyRoe]

It was mentioned on radio 4 today. The ingenuity of people never ceases to amaze me

[sunny-dave]

Wouldn't work in Scotland - anyone buying more than one vegetable sets off an alarm ...

[bhg481]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5774293/Brits-using-self-checkout-machines-steal-expensive-fruit-veg-saying-theyre-buying-carrots.html

It's not ingenuity, it's dishonesty.

[jno]

everything's got to weigh right, hasn't it? The durians are just so much heavier than carrots.

[FoxLee2]

You see all sorts going on in the supermarket. Once there were bags of cherries, all the same weight and the same price showing on the bar code. I saw a man open a second bag of cherries and put some in another bag so getting more for his money. He must have felt so pleased with himself. Nothing more than a common thief!

[bhg481]

Foxlee - and, of course, some other poor soul got an underweight bag.

[Hopkirk]

It's all on CCTV.

Anthony Worral Thompson fell from grace over a self service till fiddle.

[Jackdaw33]

This is just the successor to the old trick, before the advent of bar codes, of swapping price labels, e.g. take the label off a tin of beans and stick it on a tin of salmon. It was theft then and remains so today.

[anneasquith]

That's funny Dave .

[johnny.5]

No
but it sort of happened the other way round
A bag of pedigree chum dry biscuits damaged with rip taped over had been marked down from £22.50 to 5p I got to the till the assistant called over the manager
He looked at the price then looked at me implied I had swapped the label . But fortunately the reduced price whoops sticker had a description so I clearly had not . He then said " I don't Know how you've managed it but you are not having it at that price you can buy it for £20 if you still want it"
I said "not at that price it says 5p on the label and it is not a full bag "
He said "I am taking it off sale and will not sell it at all "
then walked off with the dog food
but I felt really angry as he was implying I was trying to con the store (ASDA) or rob it even

[Peter Pedant]

Of course it is a crime Jackie
The discussion seems to be whether people do it - coz it is only a little crime....( and that means they regard it as OK)

Sociologists discuss whether there is progression thro the disrespect of the law this engenders , to larger and larger crimes ( they say it does)

considering the effect of swizzling thruppence would have on my life - I wouldnt dare.
( Duckhouse or MPs expenses - no I am not an MP - I might have a different view )

I have been stopped - I took out all my "ill gotten" gains ( erm purchases I mean) and then showed him the reciept and asked - which one do you think I havent paid for ?

[jennyjoan]

I read not long ago some man was arrested for doing this - think it was Tescos.