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

• lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Stealing from Walmart is a community service.

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• deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Lot of mental hoops your jumping through to justify stealing.

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    • Mafflez@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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      • Cold_Brew_Enema@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Because we live in a society where stealing is wrong. Sorry you don’t like self checkouts, but that doesn’t give you the right to steal. I don’t like speed limits, but I still follow them.

        Here’s an idea; if you don’t like self checkouts, don’t use them.

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    • deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The store is stealing labor from you.

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    • Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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