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zedprime posted:Self checkouts are very elaborate unmanned road side produce stands. Barcodes aren't encoded any more than there being a check digit so the only thing stopping you from ringing everything as produce or putting your own bargain bin barcodes on everything is the social contract. Honest to god, I have never stolen from a grocery store. Not once in my straight-laced "mayo is spicy" life. I especially don't since I've been going to the same one for about 15 years now and know a lot of the folks that work there and don't want to make their jobs any harder. But gently caress Walmart. Thankfully the nearest one is far enough away that it's not a reasonable choice most of the time but if I were more bold, I'd steal from that family of monsters any chance I got.
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Helith posted:The self service checkouts at Woolworths in Australia have a camera in them that identifies fruit and veg by colour and shape. So if you put red coloured apples on the scales the screen auto suggests varieties of red apples as well as other red round fruit and veg it could be and you choose the right one from the selection. You must live in a city, because ours definitely do not do this. I still have to stand there looking at the list of produce items like a loving idiot when I forget what a zucchini is called.
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Lady Disdain posted:You must live in a city, because ours definitely do not do this. I still have to stand there looking at the list of produce items like a loving idiot when I forget what a zucchini is called. A courgette?
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Mar 12, 2021 23:06
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learnincurve posted:A courgette? Not in Australia, no.
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Humphreys posted:Flo Rida
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Hyperlynx posted:Not in Australia, no. Speak for yourself 
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They are speaking for themself and also the rest of Australia who definitely don't call it a courgette, because that's weird.
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Lady Disdain posted:You must live in a city, because ours definitely do not do this. I still have to stand there looking at the list of produce items like a loving idiot when I forget what a zucchini is called. Yeah, Sydney and it's quite new. It works well most of the time.  fellow immigrant who forgets what Aussies call their veg. Repeat after me, zucchini, eggplant, capsicum. Also Witlofs!
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My small-town Walmart got those installed (in the...shortly before time, I think??). I don't like em because they work maybe 10% of the time, but the fancy new self-check software added extra steps before letting you manually look up a vegetable because they really want you to know you can scan the tiny barcode sticker (which never works even when the veggies happen to have one). Exactly what I want in my occasional stockup trips, standing around longer touching a public computer screen more times 
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Mar 13, 2021 00:44
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iajanus posted:Speak for yourself Where in Australia do you live, where they call them courgettes? (Also my phone's keyboard doesn't even have it in the dictionary)
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I never lie to my self checkout machines so I just figured out I'm a huge sucker. 
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Actually once I scanned a four dollar six ounce cheese, and then I took home a six dollar six ounce cheese.
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i'm not paying $24 for a pack of magic cards, just scan the normal priced one twice and leave with a fancy booster
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If you use the self-check you're a scab trying to take the jobs of checkers. Likewise if you don't try to confuse/disable automated phone systems to get to a real person.
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:If you use the self-check you're a scab trying to take the jobs of checkers. Ups ground used to send you to a call center with terribly staticy phones if you failed to make the robot happy three times. Now it just tells you to call back with the correct information and hangs up Ch Robinson has a navisphere routing portal where I have to enter freight information for them so that a computer can generate the carrier. The person who demanded I filled out the form for them today didn't seem too thrilled when I asked if they would at least buy me lunch for doing their job for them
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Len posted:Ups ground used to send you to a call center with terribly staticy phones if you failed to make the robot happy three times. Now it just tells you to call back with the correct information and hangs up Ah someone else who can confirm the horrible voice quality. Weird I can hear the robot and the hold music really clearly and then t--k--g to a p----sh i- kind of a puzzle.
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:If you use the self-check you're a scab trying to take the jobs of checkers. I don't disagree but at the stores here it's the only option.
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Hyperlynx posted:Where in Australia do you live, where they call them courgettes? Originally the Hills in Sydney, then the lower North shore, now Brisbane. And not everyone did, but enough people did that I grew up knowing exactly what they were. Same for aubergines.
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I know what they are from tv and online recipes, etc. But I've never heard them used in real life, except by people not born in Australia.
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iajanus posted:Originally the Hills in Sydney, then the lower North shore, now Brisbane. And not everyone did, but enough people did that I grew up knowing exactly what they were. Probably Brits.
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You will take the British names for things out of expat boomer parent’s cold dead hands.
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learnincurve posted:You will take the British names for things out of expat boomer parent’s cold dead hands. Surprisingly, aubergine and courgette are not words of British origin. Hard to care about courgette/zucchini if youre not French or Italian. Just point at green thing, then eat green thing
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iajanus posted:Originally the Hills in Sydney, then the lower North shore, now Brisbane. And not everyone did, but enough people did that I grew up knowing exactly what they were. Well, ok then. Perth and then Melbourne, for my part.
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:Ah someone else who can confirm the horrible voice quality. Weird I can hear the robot and the hold music really clearly and then t--k--g to a p----sh i- kind of a puzzle. It's the call center. If you can get to an actual terminal and not there it's fine. Like we've got the local terminals number and it's a crystal clear connection, but if you go the 800 number route it's just a static monster from the underground
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:Actually once I scanned a four dollar six ounce cheese, and then I took home a six dollar six ounce cheese. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4CWJ31HBis
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:I never lie to my self checkout machines so I just figured out I'm a huge sucker. Same, friend. But I also don't shop at Walmart. I would probably be more cavalier about it if I did. I either go to the local IGA affiliate or a couple of regional chains. BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:If you use the self-check you're a scab trying to take the jobs of checkers. I know you're joking, but this actually pissed me off when I was a cashier. People would come through my lane with like two things and I'd just think ugh just use the self checkout and leave me alone.
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:If you use the self-check you're a scab trying to take the jobs of checkers. https://stacker.com/stories/3280/50-jobs-no-longer-exist Remember not to use banking apps or automated teller machines as well, always go in person!
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DrBouvenstein posted:I did something similar in college when I was nearly broke and lower on the ethical scale I am at currently (and also was younger and had that whole "brain can't really comprehend possible consequences of your actions" thing.) That's a standard overlabel/relabel scam. Any cashier will catch it because they know approximately the price of most items. They just don't care at all. Don't go to the oldest cashier, go to the youngest. They really don't care about their job at all. They'd rather be fired anyway. Retail sucks. The only time I ever bothered to bust someone on that scam was on a Barbie playset that I knew was $45. This was back in about '97. It was a really cool playset with a castle and a car, a spare Ken, that sort of thing. The gal buying it had over-labeled with a sticker for 15 cents. That one, I couldn't let slide. Then she got mad at me and told me how it was false advertising. I said, "Ma'am, in what world does a fancy, brand new Barbie playset go for 15 cents. Then she got defensive because I was accusing her of being poor I guess? I got the on-deck manager to escort her out. I was 18 years old. I ain't got time for that crap. I'm making $4.25 an hour and going to college. My pay barely covers my share of the rent. Our furniture was things we found on the street. Literally "things". $500 divided by 5 and we still never had money. gently caress you and your Barbie playset. I can't afford food or make long distance calls. And yes, you're poor; you stupid bitch with filthy crotchlings stealing candy, while you're yelling at a teenager working at K-Mart. How much do you think I care about my job at loving K-Mart?
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I've stolen a handful of stuff, usually just cheap things I could easily pocket to stretch out an extremely tight budget. The only 'big' thing I've ever stolen was World of Warcraft (which I had already bought) back in highschool. Basically when I picked up WoW at walmart, it was on the shelf like normal and I didn't notice it had been opened. So I got it home and it was missing the disc with the cd-key. Walmart wouldn't take it back or even exchange it and Blizzard charged me 10 dollars for another disc, that also didn't come with a cd-key. So one night I walked back in, picked up a box, took it to an abandoned aisle and just dumped out the contents on a shelf. Pocketed the disc with the key and walked out.
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I quit my grocery store job yesterday (because it was quit or die) and let me tell you, in our store at least, putting down some self-checkouts improved things to a degree because it funnels a lot of assholes away, and the same number of people were being employed up front so no one lost their job, but that sure didn't stop customers from coming up and lecturing me about how the self-checkouts are going to put me out of a job while I was run off my feet trying to supervise them. Anyway I'm bad at being devious enough to steal things but I did once find a big package of stew beef that someone had accidentally priced as soup bones, which meant it was $12 instead of closer to $35 so I grabbed it. That wasn't in the store I worked at, though.
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mng posted:You all seem very sick in the brain. I don’t believe you’ve been here since 2006 and are just realizing this.
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mng posted:You all seem very sick in the brain. Online communities tend to be self-selecting for people who have brain problems.
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I just figured out Mediterranean means "between lands", as in it's the sea between Europe, Asia, and Africa.
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Jabberlock posted:I just figured out Mediterranean means "between lands", as in it's the sea between Europe, Asia, and Africa. I think Middle Earth is probably a more direct translation.
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Jabberlock posted:I just figured out Mediterranean means "between lands", as in it's the sea between Europe, Asia, and Africa. Check out what Mesopotamia means while you're at it.
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Pookah posted:Years ago, I noticed that when a local supermarket chain marked things down, the replacement barcode had the changed price visible within the new barcode. If you keyed in the barcode manually, you could change the price to anything at all. I only tried out of curiousity - it seemed like bad design on their part. But then, the chances of a customer being weird enough to notice, and also weird enough to bother making the change was probably very low. One of the supermarket "4𝇍 per litre off your fuel" dockets has the date it's valid for and the discount both on the docket. Sadly, only the 4𝇍 discount works now so I don't bother doing it anymore, but you could totally type in the barcode into one of those Loyalty Card apps, scan it at the register and have it give you a nice discount, as long as you remembered to change the date every month and used one of the valid discount amounts. I spent a long time getting 12𝇍 off every petrol purchase. EDIT: Here we go, found an old image of a docket through google.  Can't remember if you needed to change the first two numbers as well. Probably. But given that you can only do the 4𝇍 discount now, I just use the actual supermarket dockets. EDIT 2: Nope, the first two numbers don't mean poo poo. Went and did my shopping and got a docket and they were just random digits. Megillah Gorilla has a new favorite as of 13:31 on Mar 15, 2021 |
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Memento posted:Check out what Mesopotamia means while you're at it. It was originally called Potamia, but then the Tigris and Euphrates flooded, and it made a real mess o' Potamia.
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Guess what Midgard means
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Also 中國
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