According to a survey.
Would have been less when self service checkout wasnt available.
1 in 5 Aussies Are Shoplifting from a Supermarket. Which Category Do You Fall under?
mmd on 03/09/2022 - 00:37
Poll Options
- 140No, never
- 43I have accidentally forgot to scan, and found something at the bottom of the trolley after i left
- 8I scan the watermelon as onions (they're rich enough)
- 7Bikies
Comments
Woolworths does have a scan and walk out system.
I haven't seen that in Adelaide yet and had never heard of it. But I guess that's exactly what I asked for, so thanks Woolworth's.
https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/discover/about-us/scan-an…
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i've never stolen from a supermarket, but i wouldn't be opposed to doing it, they aren't ethical businesses. i just don't go there often enough, and the last time i did go, there was what appeared to be a security guard in the self checkout area..
Just remember that if Colesworth could steal form you somehow, they would do it.
they do….specials tags incorrectly displayed above items they arent for
happened to me several times this week…coles - jalna 2kg greek yoghurt special ticket said $12 scanned for $13.50…must be for a different type of 'jalna natural youghurt'
woolies - truss tomatos had a sign above them $4.50, look at sign fine print says 'cucumbers'
woolies - free range eggs filling space where caged eggs usually are with incorrect pricing displayed…payed 50% more without realising
They do in wages haha and not putting profits back into facilities and not making food cheaper
So you base your ethics/morals based on what you believe others do?
So you base your ethics/morals based on what you believe others do?
no, i consider stealing from scumbags a non issue. if they want to act like scumbags, i will treat them the way they treat others.
Isn't that what ethics/morals are?
No, morals is about your own behavior, and what you believe to be right and wrong. For example Sauron above believe stealing is okay as long as they can justify it in their own head. Kinda similar to how religious idiot justify their bigotry and hate because they believe their religion gives them a free pass. I believe both examples make you a a-hole.
Your morales and ethics should not be so easy to change. Just because someone else has low morals does not mean you have to lower your own.
Pretty hard to steal at ALDI do that's a no from me.
The thieves run out the entry at aldi. It happened 3 weeks in a row while I was shopping there. The staff do run after them.
I thought you were supposed to scan everything as carrots. I’ve been getting ripped off!
I have accidentally not scanned face masks i.e. the beauty product that comes in sachets, maybe twice as it’s sitting flat at the bottom of the trolley and was hidden under something else. A couple of times I’ve scanned birds eye chillies as red chillies when I haven’t been paying enough attention to the words on the screen, and can’t be bothered calling the person to fix it. I don’t go out of my way to steal things though, honestly I don’t think it’s worth the risk. There’s plenty of legal ways to get free or cheap food if I get that desperate.
So it's down to stealing or eating the ze bugs for some people?
Saw a shoplifter the other day. It took me long enough to figure out that's what I was seeing that it was too late to do anything about it.
I was walking past the staff entrance at the side of the local supermarket. You need a code or card to get in, but not to get out. The door opened and someone came out carrying a basket of groceries, and took off at a run. At that point I realised it wasn't a staff member in a hurry, it was a shoplifter who'd realised that if they left by the staff entrance the alarm would go off but there'd be no-one to stop them. Sure, he was on camera, but even with face recognition software all the camera would have got is a picture of a cap and sunglasses and a medical mask.
I've actually dobbed in a shoplifter. I saw someone leaving the supermarket with groceries through the swinging gates that only open when someone's coming in. I alerted the nearest staff member, who asked me if I could follow him out and get his car rego. With that identifying him, and the security photos of his face and the groceries in the trolley, the cops called at his home and did him for shoplifting.
The above story is true. But I've been watching to see if it got upvoted or downvoted by fellow OzBargainers.
upvoted ordownvoted byfellow OzBargainersthieves.LMFTFY
The number of upvotes is matching the number of downvotes so far.
Why would you do their job?
You are putting yourself at risk from the shoplifter.
There are so many crazies out there.He doesn't know I was involved. Woolies didn't even ask my name. I gave them the rego number of the car he got into, they gave the cops it and the security camera footage. The cops went to the address the car was registered at, compared the face in the security footage to the face of the person there, he agreed it was him and pled guilty.
@El cheepo: Some people have a sense of community and helping. Others are selfish penalty box word like yourself I guess.
@El cheepo: I found out the result because I talk to some of the staff at the store. Same as at other stores I regularly go to.
My favourite was the lady using the “Scoop and Weigh” and she put one small scoop in the bag, put it on the scale and made the price tag for it, put the price tag on the bag and went back and filled the bag to the top.
Or the other ones that just walk in, grab a hand full of nuts or pretzels and eat them while walking around shopping, treating it like a free buffet.
And people wonder why it’s $35/kg for peanuts at these stations.
Surly that would cause a staff member to check the weight haha?
I saw a guy hanging around one of them and getting a handful every few minutes. I told a staff member and he said oh yeah people do that all the time and just walked on. Nothing happened.
these days if it looked like someone genuinely was doing it because they needed it…id be a bit more understandable. some people are doing it really rough out there
They should probably access food charities before shoplifting though.
not everyone has access to food charities though and many food banks are already stretched
I think most people who live close enough to a supermarket to be there shop lifting would have access to food charity.
I do think in most cases the person shoplifting feels entitled to for whatever reason, they might be doing it tough, but I wonder if everything they steal is essential.
At my local woolies you occasionally see some runners from the self serve - ie they pretend to scan or scan one cheap item, then bag the rest and leave. Hoping the one staff member wont notice (I don't notice unless the staff do - hence shouting and running)
I hold the bag of whatever fruit or veggies I have to take 100-200 grams off, especially when bananas are $5/kg. But I always scan the correct item, just in case the scale makes a fuss, the supervisor doesn’t care as long as the item is there.
we should probably be looking at why people are stealing food and working on that rather than securing basic necessities.
The same reason people use VPNs to get cheap streaming subscriptions — because they can get away with it. Multiple accounts — no problem! It is The OzBargain Way. “Everyone is doing it.” There is no sense of fair play — it’s not what you should do, it’s what you can do
According to a survey.
You mean this post? Lol
Where's the Yes option?
lol…5 finger freddy has entered the chat
Was it St Louis where the levees failed some years ago, and large parts of the cities were flooded?
Well, wherever it was, there were big shock horror media reports of widespread looting of supermarkets. Then someone put the other side of it. The supermarket owners had locked up their stores and left, leaving the poorest people who couldn't leave without anywhere to get food. So they broke into the locked supermarkets and took the food.
It led to the question of who were the criminals. The owners who locked their stores and left people without any food. Or the people who took it. And if you say they were entitled to take it out of necessity, that necessity excuses other crimes, how far can you take that argument in terms of justifying shoplifting in less extreme circumstances by people who simply can't afford to pay.
I get it in this scenario. But in Australia if people can’t afford groceries at the normal price there are charities that can help.
and some of those charities are already stretched and arent able to service all areas where people need them
The related ethical questions to the one the OP asks are:
If you realise later that a shop has overcharged you, and can prove it, do you go back and ask for your money, and
If you realise later that a shop has undercharged you, do you offer to pay the difference the next time you're there?
If your answer to the first question is YES, but your answer to the second is NO, isn't that dishonest?
When I bought a heap of stuff including nuts, bolts and washers from Bunnings the girl forgot to charge me for the washers but as it was on the work PowerPass I didn’t notice until I got back to the depot and submitted the receipt. When I next went back a few days later I told the girl and she just laughed and said don’t worry about it.
woolworths check out experience - I was at a self-serve register and weighed 3 large tomatoes - the scale said 1.4kgs. i was like "huh? that does not seem right". tried the next scale/register and the weight was 680grams- which seemed more accurate.
hmmm.
we might have to start bringing in our own scales to make sure???
You can right-click the video and, "Copy video at current time" and even adjust the seconds with the copied link (t=30s):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65-_GpJtfpQ&t=30swow thanks mate
learnt something new today!
Fellow OZbers, taking multiple pieces of "free fruit for kids" for yourself is still stealing. The amount I see this at Woolies is ridiculous.
I've only ever done it once when Woolworths decided that Feijoas had to be scanned for each one you had, you couldn't specify weight or quantity. I gave myself a free Feijoa as compensation for making me do that.
Ain't nobody got time for day.
What do they normally do in manned checkout?
Never deliberately, few times over the past decade i've got to the car and realised there was something in the trolley i'd missed.
I do recall sometimes stealing something if it couldn't be scanned, just because I was so pissed off that these stupid machines were actually expecting me to wait around like a moron for a non existent staff member to take care of it. I'm usually in a hurry when I shop because I try to pack in all my chores into as few outings as possible. Woolworths seem to always have someone standing around the self checkout pay these days though, so it doesn't take long to flag them down and because they fix these problems all day they are pretty quick about it.
I wish we could just scan things with our phones when we grab them from the shelf and pay for them like that, and just walk out of the shop with it. Actually I wish Woolworths would just deliver anything I want within an hour or two for free, or at least next day. If supermarkets are like distribution centres then it feels kinda silly to commute to the distribution centre yourself, spend time picking yourself, and line up to pay for things.