Idaho man accused of using soup barcode hidden in ring for Walmart theft scheme
Idaho man accused of using soup barcode hidden in ring for Walmart theft scheme
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.
Soup to nuts
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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.