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by triton
4640 days ago
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Actually people don't give a shit who work there (a big chunk of the staff steal produce or write it off and take it home as well), there are plenty of other shops to choose from, the police don't care (in the UK they send you a letter if you get mugged apologising for not coming out) and the business find it costly to deal with the people. It's only significant if it's more than a few pounds/dollars which is why high value retail tend to have competent security. When capitalism pushes profit margins, some losses are insignificant not to invest in otherwise they will hurt the margins they are trying to protect. Also if they gave a shit, they'd have staff on all checkouts and not use self-service checkouts. Staff are more expensive. They know; they just don't care. |
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They know; they just don't care.
While I agree that the stores "deserve" the amount of the theft through fraud that comes with replacing human checkers with automated checkout systems, that doesn't make your behavior in explicitly taking committing that fraud any more ethical.
Scan something wrong by accident, that's the store's fault for setting up the system to allow such accidents. But to intentionally exploit their system, that's on you.
I personally make it a rule to never go through automated check-outs because I think the stores that use them are not holding up their end of the social contract. I've even abandoned a few carts when I got to the check-out and found they had no human checkers (I found out the hard way that some grocery stores around here go 100% automated after 10pm).