Comment on Some Walmart employees say customers are getting hostile at self-checkout — and they blame anti-theft tech

• Cold_Brew_Enema@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ah so stealing. Got it.

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  • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Stealing from Walmart is a community service.

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  • deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I refuse to do the unpaid labor of fixing their shitty robot.

    If bad business decisions cause accidental shrinkage, oh well.

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    • Cold_Brew_Enema@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Lot of mental hoops your jumping through to justify stealing.

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      • Mafflez@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Why are u defending a corporation that’s making you do a job for free that people used to get paid to do.

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      • deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The store is stealing labor from you.

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      • Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’ll go there. Robot fucks up, I’m stealing.

        I tried to pay. Fuck em.

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  • queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s simply the customer getting paid for the labor of being a cashier. If someone does labor for a company, the company pays them.

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  • mwguy@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Morally maybe, but legally no. Theft requires criminal intent. If the person is honestly attempting to pay for the goods and errors in the payment method cause an over or underpayment, that’s not theft.

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    • Cold_Brew_Enema@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s theft if you know that the item didn’t scan and you just bag it anyway. You can ask for help. But no keep stealing and trying to justify it.

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      • mwguy@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s not theft if there’s no criminal intent. If the lack of scanning was caused by equipment malfunction then there’s no reason to think that they intended to steal.

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