Police say the suspect used a ring on his finger with a tomato soup barcode to surreptitiously scan expensive items at a fraction of the cost, including a $300 grill.
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.