Who does scan and shop in the supermarket?

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Are you paying for all your groceries? Is this not shoplifters heaven??

Yes, of course I pay for it all. It's probably easier not to make a mistake as you scan things as you pick them up and don't forget you've handed something to a child while you go round the shop, or hung loo rolls on the back of the trolley.

I do it at Waitrose and Sainsbury's. I am honest and scan everything. I have been selected for a random rescan a couple of times at Sainsbury's but never yet at Waitrose.

It is much quicker to process my payment than if I were using the conventional checkout. I imagine that the supermarkets do a cost / benefit analysis and find that the savings on staff hours outweigh any losses due to theft.

I have noticed that Waitrose tends to have a security guard hanging around the really expensive wine and spirits.

I do it as it keeps DD occupied. Although I keep an eye on her, I do get a moment of panic if we get selected for a random check in case she's thrown something in when I've not been looking!

I do it in Carrefour, and sometimes the control is about 5 items, and sometimes the whole trolley. Of course I pay for it all; dishonest not to, and you can check on the scanner that you have scanned everything in.

I assume there is a trade off between the odd bot of shop lifting and the cost of employing cashiers for this to be viable for the stores.

They started in in Safeways many years ago near me, but abandoned it all many years ago. I suspect if was shoplifters heaven. If they regularly checked most people you lose the advantage of scan and shop, if they don't then the shop loses too much in thefts.
Maybe I don't live in a 'naice' enough area

I do it occasionally, but I bloody hate it and I won't do it in Tesco's cos their machines are the worst and if when they go wrong, the staff empty your whole bag and check the entire load out again. They make you feel like a criminal.

And no, I wouldn't dream of stealing. Principle side, FFS, a criminal record for the sake of a tin of beans or something? You'd be mad to.

Ok, nice honest people, what would happen if there is something you haven't scanned?

Always scan, always pay for everything. It keeps my budget in check and we sail through the tills. There was a stage where I was randomly scanned often, but it's tailed off now.

I do it all the time at Waitrose. I find it much less stressful than going through the checkout and I can keep an eye on how much I am spending. Have never been randomly checked though .

I do, it's much easier to only pack once, and no I don't shoplift, why would you?!

Always scan. Always pay of course. There's an option at the end if something hasn't scanned.

My DM forgot to scan something once so she took it to customer services to pay. They gave it to her for free for her honesty!

I do it and I do scan everything. I've no intention of shoplifting anyway, but even if I had, it would be a risky strategy because they do a lot of random checks.

I love it because I can see at a glance how much I'm spending.

I love it. They are brilliant. You get checked randomly, no probs. And no one. NO ONE. That's right no one gets to touch my shopping or the arrangement of my packing.

Step away from my bags punk!

I would never steal anything, but the self checkouts do bother me. Very frustrating when something goes wrong and they don't have enough staff to deal with it.

A loaf of bread wasn't scanning the other day, I went in to find the item and obviously picked the wrong one, because the scan till realised it wasn't the weight it was supposed to be.

If I realised that I had taken something that I didn't pay for because I hadn't scanned it properly then I would most definitely go back. My nephew took stuff from a store, put it in the buggie & I went back to return it. My sister in law didn't seem to think it was any big deal, but if he had been my son then he would received a punishment for it.

I've been doing it for a number of years, our local tesco seemed to have it quite a while before the others around.
I love it.
I scan and pay for everything. Actually I once didn't scan a pack of dried mango a young ds2 was holding - discovered it when I got home. So the next visit I scanned one but didn't take it.

However if I've gone to a till and purchases have been rung up incorrectly I invariably don't say anything - I figure I'm presenting my purchases to them, it's up to them to get it right.

So I'm more honest with self scanning.

I get stopped for checks irregularly, but more often if I have dc2 with me and he scans stuff and I take it off and put it back. The act of removing things from the scanner appears to trigger checks.

I do self scan and have been checked several times. I was caught out once as I had scanned a vanilla yogourt twice instead of scanning it and the strawberry one it was on offer with. I thought buy 2 for 1.50 meant I could just scan one of them twice. So doing the random check of 5 items they scanned the strawberry one so I had to have the whole trolley done. I felt so guilty but they were so good about it.

I do it in Waitrose whenever I go in and clock that it's busy at the tills... no - I would never dream of not scanning something; can you IMAGINE the shame of being spot-checked and found with excess items? Why would anyone put themselves through that?

I love scan and shop, also means I can keep an eye on cost as I go along. And of course I pay for everything!

Also it's useful to check prices of stuff when there's no actual price on the item.

They do random checks on you when you get to the till, usually first time you use it and then randomly.

You still need to get the salesperson to remove tags from high value items as well.
So not exactly shoplifters haven.

...That sounds like the only reason I wouldn't do it is for fear of getting caught

I do it in Tesco. I've been selected for random checks which have been anything from 5 to 25 items. I seem to get checked about once a month. I scan everything and it is great for keeping track of my total spend. The staff at my local store are pretty speedy when doing checks and removing tags etc. They can also authorise my booze without needing to check my ID

I use it often and always scan, get picked for random searches now and again

The other week i had a massive trolley full all nicely bagged up, got selected for a random scan, they scanned some 50p crackers and I'd not scanned them, must have missed them by mistake, so I had to unload all my frigging bags so she could rescan the whole lot! 😡 very inconvenient! That was the only thing I'd missed and they didn't care, I'm sure they knew it was a mistake.

The woman said they regularly get people missing £30 worth of stuff 'by accident' as far as I know they just re scan it all and you go on your way, but I'm sure they cotton on if people are regularly 'forgetting' large amounts and I bet there's a way of banning people or refusing scan as you shop or something exactly as there would be for any shop lifter.

Oh yes and once I scanned a size 12 pair of trousers and the size 10 I picked up didn't have a tag, then I saw a size 10 with a tag and swapped them but didn't change the scanner. Got stopped for a random check - the tag on the trousers didn't match the scanner so they had to rescan the whole trolley. I felt like a criminal! The trolley rescan came out exactly the same.