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Some Walmart employees say customers are getting hostile at self-checkout — and they blame anti-theft tech (www.businessinsider.com)

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Some Walmart employees say customers are getting hostile at self-checkout — and they blame anti-theft tech::When Walmart's anti-theft self-checkout tech alerts an employee of a missed scan, it can cause some uncomfortable situations.

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[-] mwguy@infosec.pub 5 points 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.

[-] Cold_Brew_Enema@lemmy.world -3 points 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.

[-] mwguy@infosec.pub 1 points 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.

[-] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe 0 points 11 months ago

It's not theft if it's from Walmart 😉

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