Just seen someone get stopped

Broken_hearted

well if I'm sent to prison tomorrow I will post next week and tell you all about it. I don't take the pee out of vouchers and have only used £4 in total.

Toto

Well, as posted yesterday, my experience has taught me to stay well away from self scan. My machine didn't ask for the voucher and when I tried to put it in the machine stuck. The woman had to come and fish it out for me, this happened twice. So I ended up walking out of the store with both vouchers in my bag because I didn't know what to do with them. The assistant said, it doesn't like those vouchers and laughed as she walked away. Scary, I could have been accused of shoplifting!

Putting in blank bits of paper is a different story though, that is going out to rob the store. But no more self scanning for me, I will brave the tills from now on.

lil_me

Invalid coupons include ones for other stores, classed as obtaining by deception so I am told. Anyway I am staying well clear from now on.

flufff

let us know if anything appears in your local press please?

stebiz

lil_me wrote:

Invalid coupons include ones for other stores, classed as obtaining by deception so I am told. Anyway I am staying well clear from now on.

And then you have till staff accepting invalid coupons and head office authorising it. I wonder if the serious fraud squad will get involved and arrest all the till staff and those using invalid coups on the self service?? (lols)

Stebiz

BoltonMinx

Due to fraud, the self-scan at Tesco Middlebrook was withdrawn almost 5 months ago. I don't bother with coupons now, just order via the internet on the cheapest delivery day and save on delivery. Oh and I pop in for the reduced stuff free-for-all at 6pm if I feel like a giggle

Dead_Eye_Jones

flufff wrote:

got to say my heart goes out to him......think he would be doing this if he was well off?
I dont think so
Watching a program about prisons on tv other night looks like he might be better fed in there.It was like a hotel with televisions,gym,carpets.
If I was elderley and struggling with no friends or family I would be sorely tempted to shoplift.

I think you are very very niave. People, of all walks of life, try to get away with exactly what they can. I know people who are not living a daily struggle who take newspapers without contributing to the honesty box, download illegal mp3s/movies, steal pens from Argos, take back carelessly used goods to shops, and play the system in any way they can.

Just read around this forum for example of people openly discussing how to beat the system, many of whom are not in debt but like to save any penny they can.

We live in a society where people are fast losing any sense of boundries or notion of right/wrong, where people will get away with exactly what they can and as long as it saves them a little then they really are not interested in the consequences.

And Id hasten to add that I know many people who have been in desperate situations and have never considered playing the system in any way - some of us still thrive on the qualities of honesty and integrity - as unlikely as that sounds!

The idea of my gran shoplifting is totally unimaginable, but I guess she was brought up in a different age to you (and I). Perhaps when youve lived through a world war you know how to make do with what youve got.

stebiz

Dead_Eye_Jones wrote:

I think you are very very niave. People, of all walks of life, try to get away with exactly what they can. I know people who are not living a daily struggle who take newspapers without contributing to the honesty box, download illegal mp3s/movies, steal pens from Argos, take back carelessly used goods to shops, and play the system in any way they can.

Just read around this forum for example of people openly discussing how to beat the system, many of whom are not in debt but like to save any penny they can.

We live in a society where people are fast losing any sense of boundries or notion of right/wrong, where people will get away with exactly what they can and as long as it saves them a little then they really are not interested in the consequences.

And Id hasten to add that I know many people who have been in desperate situations and have never considered playing the system in any way - some of us still thrive on the qualities of honesty and integrity - as unlikely as that sounds!

The idea of my gran shoplifting is totally unimaginable, but I guess she was brought up in a different age to you (and I). Perhaps when youve lived through a world war you know how to make do with what youve got.

I agree with part of what you say. All I would say is that in this world of material things - and corporate greed - often it is rammed down our throats. Banks making billions, Footballers on £100k a week, Chief Execs on 600k a year and so on. I guess I can understand why society acts in the way it does.

Regards
Stebiz

hollydays

When people do something "getting away with it" and dont get caught,they get careless and greedy- then they get caught.Sometimes it just seems sad, in the modern meaning of the world .I have known people too who have regularly stolen the newspaper without putting the money in the honesty box,and one such person rang up a radio debate to brag about it, not all people are in need they do get a buzz from it.
Re self scanning wouldnt dare use it-i prefer the proof of handing my money to the assistant.
Some supermarkets check about one in 50 self scan transactions, imagine how humiliating it would be if you accidentally didnt scan an item.They would have to prove you did it intentionally but i still dont fancy the risk-while i am shopping my mind is on 100 other things.

amancalledchip

BoltonMinx wrote:

Due to fraud, the self-scan at Tesco Middlebrook was withdrawn almost 5 months ago. I don't bother with coupons now, just order via the internet on the cheapest delivery day and save on delivery. Oh and I pop in for the reduced stuff free-for-all at 6pm if I feel like a giggle

this saturday afternoon ( say 4pm ish) should be good LOL