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No one is gonna report you to police for failing to scan a €0.50 piece of bread when doing €80 worth of grocery shopping
It very much depends on your skin colour. Me, as a white guy in Austria, no, they wouldn't report me. I'd be very sorry about the mistake and I'd pay for it, and of course it would just be a mistake.
A friend of mine who's parents are from Afghanistan, he gets stopped all the time by store detectives, even though he works as a software developer for the same company. He's never made a scanning mistake, but if he would, there would be no doubt they'd report him. They stop him even though he did nothing suspicious apart from having slightly darker skin and a beard.
Hello from France. Our countries don't admit to themselves how racist they still are and how much of a poison it is. I hope your friend is OK.
A couple years ago, I accidentally walked out without paying. I did slide my credit card but didn’t pay attention to what happened. I thought I was done and left, but apparently it didn’t actually work. A minute later they chased me down, but they just let me come back and pay. No big deal.
I don’t know if it was because I was cooperative, or claimed innocence or was white
It’s also helpful that I have notification on for that card. I proved to myself immediately that the charge didn’t work and it was just me not getting paying attention
Lol, in Finland you definitely will get reported for forgetting to scan a 0,50€ yoghurt. And it will go to court.
That's crazy, it's the tills job to weigh the items and report error if it doesn't add up, how would that be my fault? I'd hope to be innocent unless cameras prove I put the yoghurt in my pocket.
Not that I love cameras tracking my every move, but that's another topic...
The more likely scenario is that you just neglect to scan that case of beer, or those ribeye steaks.