More and more small partners, go to the supermarket shopping, will choose a simple and rapid self-service check-out way! Do not have to communicate with people, their own shopping to scan the code, their own bags, want to load a few bags, relaxed at will, So easyys!
However, this convenient way for you and me to settle their bills, but also for those greedy small and cheap, the heart of the people open the door to convenience! So that many supermarket operators in Australia, worry white!
According to The Advertiser, the self-help scanner has been abused by countless customers since it was logged into supermarkets in Australia 10 years ago. They sprang up one after another, giving the supermarkets a headache.
Previously, according to news.com.au, a mother in Kunzhou wanted to take advantage of self-help checkout, unsupervised loopholes, and repeatedly targeted Coles and Woolworths!
Let`s take a look at this mother`s fancy operation:
The mother first went to the supermarket to find two very cheap "2min easy-to-cook noodles", worth 65 points and 72 points, respectively! I can`t even get a dollar!
She used her mobile phone to photograph the bar codes of these two kinds of noodles, then went home to use the photos, printed more than n! And put glue on the back of the printed bar code!
Then she went to the major supermarkets in Kunzhou and glued her homemade "bar code" to the goods she wanted to buy! With the success of the crimes over and over again, the mother boldly aimed at more expensive goods! From small items such as meat, protein powder to large items such as coffee machines!
Later, as she often haunts a supermarket, after being watched by the supermarket manager, she found that she was very nervous! When the caretaker stopped her from checking, she was stunned!
After all, see what beef, coffee maker show into a few cents of noodles, who is not surprised!
The act of buying a pile of things for a few cents is different from stealing!
The head of the supermarket angrily sued the mother to court! Because he has seen this mother many times! I don`t know how many things she took!
Later, the mother`s confession made everyone confused! Originally, she has silently put this kind of coquettish operation, played 31 times! Took away more than $4500 worth of goods! In the end, the mother paid the price for her immoral behavior!
She was convicted of "stealing" and fined more than $3500! And he was sentenced to nine months in prison!
According to statistics, Australian retailers lose nearly A $9.3 billion a year as a result of this "theft" incident. It accounts for nearly 3% of the total turnover of the year!
Originally the supermarket opened self-help checkout, is to save everyone the time to settle the bill, for everyone to do a convenience, but not expected to be used in turn, causing losses to the supermarket!
Such behavior as Australian mothers, not only in all parts of Australia, but also in the world has this kind of self-checkout supermarket, will be performed!
According to news.com.au, in February, a 58-year-old German uncle secretly used 73.5 worth of calf liver as a cheap fruit, trying to buy at a low price to muddle through the customs, was found by supermarket officials, and then was heavily fined three hundred and twenty six thousand yuan!
In November, a young American mother was spotted trying to buy a $2300 electronic product at a self-checkout price of $4.20. Eventually, she was charged with retail theft and major theft, and was sent to prison!
In February, a foreign backpacker tried to steal a piece of beef in an Australian woolworths, by stealing a piece of beef when it was seen by supermarket officials! After that he was fined $100 because he was a first-time offender and the theft was small!
Estimates, this little brother also did not think, for a moment greedy for small cheap, want to save money, but in the end was sent away more money!
According to The Age report, Coles also caught a customer with a self-help check-out machine. Many of the goods did not have a bar code, put it in the shopping bag, and "Prov.de" a lot of money!
And he admitted that he had been doing this for a long time, with only 2/3 of the merchandise being brushed at each time!
Earlier, the self-help checkout just landed in Australia`s major supermarkets soon, supermarket staff, found that some customers will secretly take more things! Scan a code and load 2, 3 items in the bag!
It`s buy one get two free! Buy one get three free!
Later, in response to this phenomenon, supermarkets specifically set up a shopping bag in the induction zone, each time can only put things in the bag according to step by step, more than one will be immediately pulled out!
There`s a policy up there, there`s a countermeasure down there! People who want to tap into the hole always come up with all kinds of strange ideas. Let the big retailers out of the way!
Tesco, the UK supermarket chain, installed cameras above the self-help checkout machine in an effort to crack down on such petty theft. This camera will monitor every customer all the way, just like many Asian Super League, small convenience stores, and the top of the cashier`s desk in Australia.
This is telling everyone: your face has been remembered by us! Your every move is under our surveillance!
When Tesco began testing in some supermarkets, Russell Zimmerman, executive director of the Australian Retail Association, also learned about the technology, and was asked if it would be implemented in Australia, but received a negative answer!
It turns out that since Tesco put this kind of monitoring into practice, it has been complained by the majority of netizens.
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Netizens Trecho: this kind of closed-circuit surveillance is too dangerous! If you are using a bank card, don`t you accidentally leak your personal information?
Netizen Yu Cici:, this is no use! Even if there`s surveillance, it`s stolen the same way. This kind of surveillance brings a lot of trouble to innocent people! For example, I don`t want my face to be saved by other machines.
Netizen Vicky Morrell: I understand the purpose of supermarket doing this, but this may expose personal privacy! I don`t want my baby to be photographed either.
So, Russell says they won`t adopt the technology, but to reduce theft at supermarket self-checkout, Aussie start-up Australia is developing an automatic identification system!
This system no longer needs any bar codes and so on, but will automatically identify through the camera, enter the sales system, directly identify the types of goods, and show the price! The so-called "intelligent checkout"!
Co-founder Chris Sampson says the technology is very high-end! You can even tell the difference between different products in the same family. After this new technology has been developed, has been in some remote areas of Australia`s small shops, farmers markets and other places to carry out trial operation!
Russell says, when enough feedback is collected, the operation will be expanded to gain access to all major supermarkets in Australia! This new technology is to hit the self-help check-out and steal the bar!
It`s just that, no matter how high-end the technology is, it`s still happening before it`s applied.
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There are many people in the supermarket on Sunday, some Teenager bear children, come to the self-help checkout area, while there are no staff, directly put everything in the bag, take it and run! The speed was too fast to catch up.
The last time the supermarket was closed, I saw a small brother next to the car and put it directly! As soon as a few of them were taken, several things were taken away, and the plastic bag was not in the area of the plastic bag. He`s a long-acting man.
I saw a Local boy brush milk and put a beef in a shopping cart.
Out of this self-help checkout, is a kind of self-control, those who have no quality really get one. When weighing, secretly take out a few, missing two.
I heard my friend say the so-called "carrot trick"! Is to buy all the vegetables and fruits, in weighing, all as carrots!
I want to report my husband! Everything comes out of the supermarket, mostly cookies, chocolates, and so on, just showing off that he`s got a new wallet for free in front of me!
It`s not like a little guy in Sydney was crazy about stealing more than 300 packets of Tim Tam. in this self-service checkout area before.
In the face of these increasingly rampant "theft" behavior, supermarket personnel are full of efforts and their kowtow!
Once caught, serious people face huge fines and jail terms!
Of course, in addition to those who deliberately undercount the money, there are a lot of friends will also make inadvertent mistakes! For example, while answering the phone while checking out, holding the child to check out, accidentally wrong point of view of the goods, and so on.
Friends later go to the supermarket, self-help checkout, must be careful! It would be bad if they were misunderstood by the supermarket staff.
