Scan It Yourself Thieving...

[boxtops]

Quelle surprise....

http://metro.co.uk/2014/01/29/self-service-tills-turn-us-into-thieves-4282776/

[emmie]

in sainsburys where i sometimes shop they have about eight tills, checkouts and about 10 self checkouts, i have either struggled to stop the machine from repeating asking me for the item, or that i have a bag, when i don't, or that the change hasn't been given, or any known machination of mechanical balls up, so i generally queue, not to mention the staff are pleasant and rarely officious, unlike my more local more upmarket supermarket, which shall remain nameless.

[ToraToraTora]

in that case jno, you'd have got the "unexpected item in bagging area......" message. There was a very creative scam in tescos where someone was stealing say a leg of lamb by puting the right weight of say spuds on the scale then putting the lamb in the bag!

[jno]

Fortnum and Masons? :-)

I don't usually have trouble with the checkouts but they occasionally throw a wobbly over nothing.

[jno]

they don't always notice the very light stuff, TTT, sometimes you have to throw a bar of chocolate into your bag with great force.

[emmie]

as if, F and M's not in my pocket, not in anyone i know either.