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Originally Posted by Rumpelteazer
Mentally preparing for today. The higher ups have decided to introduce a 100% bag check for customers.
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One person I know works in the backend of loss prevention at a grocery store chain. Their employers do have a policy of checking customers who are using their own shopping carts (the bags on wheels). It was surprising the first week they started this policy just how many times they found items, oddly mostly the more expensive ones, that had been "forgotten" in the bottom of the bag.
Their biggest losses seem to come from people who were replacing the bar code with that from a cheaper item, "mistyping" the produce code, etc. The old weight sensors in the bagging area which were so useless that they had been disabled were recently replaced with more accurate and sensitive ones and the camera systems upgraded with an AI component. Now when you place a prime rib roast on the scale and then punch in the code for bananas, a staff member will get very interested in checking your order. And yes, that was a real example.
Sadly, 2 years on that job has turned a bright optimistic human into a darkly cynical being who has taken "You are not paranoid. They are really out to get you" as a personal motto.
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Originally Posted by Renate
Considering how many cameras they have in stores can't they track this stuff anyway?
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Yes, they can probably track you putting stuff into the bag. The checkout is where they find out if you are removing all the items from the bag and paying for them.