Idaho man accused of using soup barcode hidden in ring for Walmart theft scheme
Soup to nuts
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/idaho-man-accused-using-soup-barcode-hidden-ring-walmart-theft-scheme-rcna191024Open linkView original on real.lemmy.fan134
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Now that's some hilarious and apropos journalism
Hello?
Hey what’s up?
I need your help can you come here?
I can’t I’m buying clothes.
Alright well hurry up and come over here.
I can’t find ‘em.
What do you mean you can’t find them?
I can’t find them there’s only soup.
What do you mean there’s only soup?
It means there’s only soup!
WELL THEN GET OUTTA THE SOUP AISLE
ALRIGHT YOU DON’T HAVE TO SHOUT AT ME
step step step step step step step step step
There’s more soup!
WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE’S MORE SOUP
THERE’S JUST MORE SOUP
GO INTO THE NEXT AISLE
THERE’S STILL SOUP
WHERE ARE YOU RIGHT NOW
I’M AT SOUP
WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU’RE AT SOUP
I MEAN I’M AT SOUP
WHAT STORE ARE YOU IN
I’M AT THE SOUP STORE
WHY ARE YOU BUYING CLOTHES AT THE SOUP STORE
FUCK YOU
From that transcript, I guess I figured the call must have originally issued forth from meth-rotted teeth and a scraggly beard on a tweeker... nope its some weeb shit.
Anime is just meth for those that never learned the social skills to find a drug dealer.
One of my favorite copypastas
do US stores not have the infuriating scales that weigh everything you scan? If you scan soup, and put down anything else itll scream “UNEXPECTED ITEM IN THE BAGGING AREA” until a staff member clears it
In my area we did for like, three months, then they removed that because the machines would do it all the time to legitimate products.
I'm surprised they cared, it could be there was another reason they removed it. But I've had years without that feature at this point. NE united states.
Walmart has had this disabled for years in any walmart I've ever been in. Their first few generations of self check were super unreliable on it so it was easier for them to have it disabled and not annoy customers then to keep it enabled and hinder everyone just to save on some shoplifting.
I mean, the trick would be to have barcode(s) in a ring for inexpensive items that you know weigh the same as expensive items.
There are two similarly priced grocery stores near me. One does this, the other does not. I avoid the one that does.
They do, so I'm not sure how he got away with this.
Because the employees just clear it because the scales are so broken
Also because they expect you to load a whole cart full of groceries onto an 8"x8" bagging area.
Well nobody is putting a grill onto the scales to measure it
The Walmart in my town does not have the scales.
You can usually tell it that you want to skip bagging up to a certain number of items, at least at the stores near me.
Maybe staff humans if you don’t want people to scam the machines. If you’re eliminating jobs in favour of self checkouts, you deserve to be shoplifted from
I'm all for machines taking my job, I don't want it anyways. But the revenue should go to us, instead of some asshole CEO.
Arrest him, why not make him CEO? Guys got big ideas. Cheating people out of money is Walmart bread and butter isn't it?
He got too greedy. He could have bought a small table top gas grill for less than 100 and probably gotten away with it.
NO SOUP FOR YOU
this is extremely common. The amount of people who would scan the wrong barcode (hidden in palm) or scan one item skip one item was insane when I worked there.
4011 gang rise up!
This reminded me of my very first job in which I learned that knowledge of the undocumented PLU codes on the cash register could be more powerful than the management key. Similar concept ha ha
The HackRF has an app that let's you choose different UPC codes on the screen.
Gotta find a shitty enough checkout to do it though. At the store I go to, the self checkout freaks the fuck out and calls a worker over with video replay if you accidentally lean on the scale, which is at thigh height.
I'm doing this now.