Self-checkout at the grocery store!

FirstExit

Well, now that holiday season is upon us (for people like me, who begin celebrating on November 1st, it has been), everyone's gonna be hitting the supermarket harder than ever, so I figured this thread was appropriate. Here are my personal tips and tricks for the self-checkout line


1) It's best to go in the mid-afternoon. The grocery store is not only dead at this time, but they'll probably only have 1 attendant at the self-checkout, and he or she is most likely going to be apathetic to whatever problems you have, because they're about to be on lunch break. So when the check-out computer tells you "INCORRECT WEIGHT" when you try to steal produce, he'll just press "cancel" and you'll be on your way.

2) Buy Organic food and enter it as Regular

3) If I'm buying a big case of beer, like a 30 rack of Bud Light or something, the UPC scan code is on the box. Instead, what I do is tear the carton at the handle, and make it so a UPC from a CAN is showing, so the register scans the can instead of the box, and charges me for a 6-pack. This works well with soda and expensive beer too!

let's see yours!

lephty

As an insider of the business, the can trick won't work! At least on my companies machines. Our machines would detect the weight difference~

BinFrog

The correct wording of the title should be:

Self-checkout at the grocery store: Or how I learned to steal and tell myself it was ok

Johnny Abruzzo

BinFrog wrote:

The correct wording of the title should be:

Self-checkout at the grocery store: Or how I learned to steal and tell myself it was ok

+1

I've just about given up going to my local supermarket because you are all but forced to use self-checkout, which I can't stand. They've done a good job in moving my business to Trader Joe's and the like. Congrats SuperFresh. Is it that hard to pay a cashier $7 an hour?

Horos

BinFrog wrote:

The correct wording of the title should be:

Self-checkout at the grocery store: Or how I learned to steal and tell myself it was ok

Sound like bragging too.

I love the self-check. It's quick and fast even without cheating.

Dissidentman

I do a lot all by myself, why shouldn't checking out at the grocery store be one fo them...

BinFrog

Dissidentman wrote:

I do a lot all by myself, why shouldn't checking out at the grocery store be one fo them...

Ain't nothing wrong with self-checkout. Being dishonest and trying to scam the store out of money is the issue.

Poncier

Dissidentman wrote:

I do a lot all by myself, why shouldn't checking out at the grocery store be one fo them...

Especially when its a small load (of groceries of course), you can certainly handle it on your own.

Dissidentman

Poncier wrote:

Dissidentman wrote:

I do a lot all by myself, why shouldn't checking out at the grocery store be one fo them...

Especially when its a small load (of groceries of course), you can certainly handle it on your own.

florence151

Too bad you can't buy a car with self check out.

SPEEDY MCCREADY

FirstExit wrote:

Well, now that holiday season is upon us (for people like me, who begin celebrating on November 1st, it has been), everyone's gonna be hitting the supermarket harder than ever, so I figured this thread was appropriate. Here are my personal tips and tricks for the self-checkout line


1) It's best to go in the mid-afternoon. The grocery store is not only dead at this time, but they'll probably only have 1 attendant at the self-checkout, and he or she is most likely going to be apathetic to whatever problems you have, because they're about to be on lunch break. So when the check-out computer tells you "INCORRECT WEIGHT" when you try to steal produce, he'll just press "cancel" and you'll be on your way.

2) Buy Organic food and enter it as Regular

3) If I'm buying a big case of beer, like a 30 rack of Bud Light or something, the UPC scan code is on the box. Instead, what I do is tear the carton at the handle, and make it so a UPC from a CAN is showing, so the register scans the can instead of the box, and charges me for a 6-pack. This works well with soda and expensive beer too!

let's see yours!

But if ya go to the regular checkout....
You can hand the girl working the register a note....
Stating that you have a weapon.....
And you can steal all the money in the register......


This fucking thread sux........