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To be really sick of supermarkets treating paying customers like scum

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OptimismvsRealism · 25/07/2024 14:34

Sainsbury's traps you in the self service pen of shame until you scan your receipt like a good little girl

Tesco won't take the security tags off your wine until you've not only paid but they've examined your receipt in detail to make sure your wine is paid for - sort of a performance so you remember your place

Waitrose makes a bit song and dance about doing the rescan of self scanning shops (I don't do self scanning because why would I sign up for this extra work?)

Just in Lidl and my wine set off the security alarm even though I've had the tags taken off and the security guard chased me out the door to try to get me to show him inside my bags (er no fuck off pal)

Aldi staff try to look in your shopping bags as you queue

Does anywhere NOT get a kick out of treating their profit drivers like filth any more?

I will probably just have to live off UHPs from the local Greggs at this rate

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OptimismvsRealism · 25/07/2024 14:45

Floating101 · 25/07/2024 14:43

Erm - to prove you have paid? I was behind someone using a self service checkout - he scanned his items, bagged them up and then walked off without paying. If the scanning receipt thing had been there he wouldn't have been able to

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Paid for what? What proves you don't have five bottles of whisky in addition to the mars bar you paid for? And what stops you just walking out without entering the Obedience Pen in the first place?

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DancingPhantomsOnTheTerrace · 25/07/2024 14:45

Sainsbury's traps you in the self service pen of shame until you scan your receipt like a good little girl

This annoys me because of the complete lack of logic.

If I want to grab something off the shelves and leave without paying, I wouldn't walk through the checkouts to leave so this wouldn't stop me.

If I wanted to not scan all my items, so I only paid for half, this wouldn't stop me because I still have a receipt.

This is stopping a very specific group of thieves who walk through the self checkout without paying, rather than walk out by simply walking next to the self checkout area (past an empty regular checkout) where there is no barrier.

SoupDragon · 25/07/2024 14:44

OptimismvsRealism · 25/07/2024 14:42

You just like performing goodgirlism. Bet you loved SIX FEET AWAY PLEASE culture too. Meanwhile professional thieves continue to fill their holdalls and stroll out the door while you're asking if the staff are SURE they don't need to do a strip search this time.

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yeah, this explains a lot about you, OP.

ALovelyCupOfNameChange · 25/07/2024 14:44

Floating101 · 25/07/2024 14:43

Erm - to prove you have paid? I was behind someone using a self service checkout - he scanned his items, bagged them up and then walked off without paying. If the scanning receipt thing had been there he wouldn't have been able to

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This is exactly how they do it, it’s so common and why they’ve had to implement the receipt scan.

vodkaredbullgirl · 25/07/2024 14:44

Someone's really pissed on your chips today 😆

SunQueen24 · 25/07/2024 14:44

OptimismvsRealism · 25/07/2024 14:42

You just like performing goodgirlism. Bet you loved SIX FEET AWAY PLEASE culture too. Meanwhile professional thieves continue to fill their holdalls and stroll out the door while you're asking if the staff are SURE they don't need to do a strip search this time.

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Are you ok OP?

If you’ve been stripped searched in tescos then yes YANBU. But we both know you’re being performative now.

Floating101 · 25/07/2024 14:43

OptimismvsRealism · 25/07/2024 14:40

Really. How do you think scanning your little receipt like a good girl good girl can I have a biscuit stops theft?

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Erm - to prove you have paid? I was behind someone using a self service checkout - he scanned his items, bagged them up and then walked off without paying. If the scanning receipt thing had been there he wouldn't have been able to

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OptimismvsRealism · 25/07/2024 14:43

zzar45 · 25/07/2024 14:42

Which supermarkets only stop women to do this?

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It's usually men who ignore them.

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SummerSnowstorm · 25/07/2024 14:43

S0livagant · 25/07/2024 14:40

I wonder why? The price of food has spiraled.

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As has the price of everything. We're paying the cost of many different factors there, largely lockdowns. However wages and universal credit have also increased and food banks are generally well ran.

The vast majority of shoplifting is things like laundry pods, expensive meat or baby formula to sell on. Its career theft not people stealing some bread.

ALovelyCupOfNameChange · 25/07/2024 14:43

I pretty much always use manned checkouts as I’m a cash person. I normally have to queue for this which annoys me, but I like to keep a person in a job.

Needmorelego · 25/07/2024 14:43

@OptimismvsRealism they don't stop thefts but it can help.
For example you can't steal Pokémon cards if they are locked in a cabinet behind customer service.
Perhaps you should go off grid and grow your own foods and be self sufficient.
Or work in a supermarket for 6 weeks.

Divebar2021 · 25/07/2024 14:43

It’s not a universal experience - I’ve shopped in all those places and haven’t experienced any of those things. My local Sainsbury’s does not require you to scan a receipt - I’ve only read about that on here.

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OptimismvsRealism · 25/07/2024 14:42

Soontobe60 · 25/07/2024 14:41

Meanwhile, shoplifting is massively on the increase while shop staff are getting harassed and abused every day. I for one am happy to put up with a bit of inconvenience and dont automatically see it as being accused of some nefarious action. Get a grip OP.

You just like performing goodgirlism. Bet you loved SIX FEET AWAY PLEASE culture too. Meanwhile professional thieves continue to fill their holdalls and stroll out the door while you're asking if the staff are SURE they don't need to do a strip search this time.

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zzar45 · 25/07/2024 14:42

OptimismvsRealism · 25/07/2024 14:40

Really. How do you think scanning your little receipt like a good girl good girl can I have a biscuit stops theft?

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Which supermarkets only stop women to do this?

S0livagant · 25/07/2024 14:42

PhilosophicalCheeseSandwich · 25/07/2024 14:40

Go to your corner shop/local grocers. They won't have security, but they also won't have the choice and it'll be more expensive. It's an option though if you really feel like you're treated like scum in the big shops.

Our local shops have just as much choice if you are looking for real food not upf.

EternallyIrked · 25/07/2024 14:42

If you don't trust us to do it properly...put a real till on. Drives me bammy aswell OP

TerfTalking · 25/07/2024 14:42

Must be the area you live in. My town has a Tesco, Sainsbo and Lidl and we have none of these.

The Tesco tag thing doesn’t make sense, if you go through a till they take it off whilst you are putting your stuff through, if you go through self scan once you’ve paid they take it off, they don’t check your receipt as they can see it on the screen and The Red light flashes when you indicate you have an item with tags so there’s usually staff close by. I’ve never had to show a receipt in Tesco for a tagged item.

zzar45 · 25/07/2024 14:42

This is literally a non issue. Why should the take security tags off things before proof of payment is shown?

Are you the poster who routinely moans about supermarkets and being made to feel like a criminal apparently? Let if go.
You have no divine right to walk around a private business and not have security methods in place.

SunQueen24 · 25/07/2024 14:42

OptimismvsRealism · 25/07/2024 14:40

Really. How do you think scanning your little receipt like a good girl good girl can I have a biscuit stops theft?

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You mentioned a range of measures in your OP.

My OH works in loss prevention for a large supermarket chain…

janeintheframe · 25/07/2024 14:42

OptimismvsRealism · 25/07/2024 14:40

Really. How do you think scanning your little receipt like a good girl good girl can I have a biscuit stops theft?

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Huh?

FinnJuhl · 25/07/2024 14:41

Booths have now removed all their self service tills, owing to negative customer feedback.

Soontobe60 · 25/07/2024 14:41

Meanwhile, shoplifting is massively on the increase while shop staff are getting harassed and abused every day. I for one am happy to put up with a bit of inconvenience and dont automatically see it as being accused of some nefarious action. Get a grip OP.

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OptimismvsRealism · 25/07/2024 14:40

SunQueen24 · 25/07/2024 14:40

Of course they stop theft!

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Really. How do you think scanning your little receipt like a good girl good girl can I have a biscuit stops theft?

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PhilosophicalCheeseSandwich · 25/07/2024 14:40

Go to your corner shop/local grocers. They won't have security, but they also won't have the choice and it'll be more expensive. It's an option though if you really feel like you're treated like scum in the big shops.

S0livagant · 25/07/2024 14:40

SummerSnowstorm · 25/07/2024 14:39

Of course all those things hugely reduce theft. Imagine how much more would be stolen without any attempts to reduce it. Shoplifting has spiralled in recent years.

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I wonder why? The price of food has spiraled.