I stopped buying organic fruits and vegetables. I still bring them home and eat them, I’m just not paying organic prices

I doubt they’re even losing that much, it’s probably paranoia and projection.

No no no you better not take them out now bitch I put shoplifting into my weekly grocery budgeting.

smh people don’t want to work for free anymore

thesis: cashiers are expensive

antithesis: self-checkout machines are annoying to use and constantly result in errors, making customers resentful of the entire process and having labor costs offloaded onto them. spiteful customers are prone to shoplifting.

synthesis: fuck! security guards are also expensive!

We salute our brave shoplifters for combating the destruction of service workers’ livelihoods

Support your local store workers by stealing as much as you can using self-checkout machines.

Sorry, I’ve gotten so used to shoplifting that I’m not going back to paying

It’s not that there is self-checkout, it’s that DG tends to keep staff very low in their stores. Sometimes you can walk in and not see a single employee, even when you go to checkout. They want their cashiers to do everything. It’s a great target for shoplifting but not because of self-checkout.

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Every single fucking time i go into harris teeter i hear the self checkout attendant on the intercom trying to scare people into not shoplifting. “Security scan and record all sections” i know that’s fucking fake dummy I used to work retail too. It’s still annoying and idk if they’re doing it for me or

There’s 0 point in self chdckout when it freezes because it thinks you’re stealing if you’re efficient and swipe too fast, or if you stand still for more than 2 seconds to check your current item list, or if you don’t place your item on the bagging surface within 1.625 seconds, and have to wait 10 minutes for an employee to be available to unlock your machine

All those empty checkout lanes are only used during holidays. The equivalent of fucking brick and mortar stores that only sell decorations for a specific holiday then shut down all year.

Steal our labor we steal your shit, seems fair to me 🤷

The two examples in the headline are dollar stores which infamously have a huge margin on their inventory. You’d think these would be the retailers who are affected the least by “shrink” but I’m no economist so what do I know.

wow, sorry I was so crappy at being my own cashier, but it’s not like you guys were paying me or providing training.

when I scan my whole meal and it comes up as a single $1.35 side of cole slaw, that’s not my fault or my problem.

Being too autistic to not pay for stuff