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Teenager Jailed After Buying PS4 for £8 by Weighing it and Paying for it as Food

posted by martyb on Wednesday October 06 2021, @01:25PM   
from the hot-potato dept.

owl writes:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6652659/Teenager-jailed-buying-PlayStation-4-8-WEIGHING-paying-6lb-food.html

A French teenager has been jailed after buying a PlayStation 4 for under £8 by weighing it as if the games console was a huge bag of fruit.

The 19-year-old man, named in the French media as Adel, picked the device off the shelf and took it to the fruit section and weighed it.

He then put a sticker with the heavily reduced price tag on the expensive console and went to the checkout.

Adel paid £7.86 (€9) for the 6lb bag of 'fruit' at a self-checkout at a supermarket in Montbeliard, eastern France, last September.

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• <maxwell smart> "The Old Sticker Switcharoo trick" <maxwell smart> "The Old Sticker Switcharoo trick" (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 06 2021, @02:28PM (2 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 06 2021, @02:28PM (#1184727)

  Somehow my preferred trick for acquiring cheap ginger (sells for ~$45/kg here) by leaving it in the bottom of the trolley and 'forgetting' it's there won't work that well for a console...

• Re:<maxwell smart> "The Old Sticker Switcharoo tri (Score: 2) by epitaxial on Wednesday October 06 2021, @03:32PM

  by epitaxial (3165) on Wednesday October 06 2021, @03:32PM (#1184744)

  How much ginger are you using?

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• Re:<maxwell smart> "The Old Sticker Switcharoo tri (Score: 3, Informative) by FatPhil on Wednesday October 06 2021, @06:56PM

  by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Wednesday October 06 2021, @06:56PM (#1184830) Homepage

  One hack lots of people tried when I worked in Waitrose was sliding the 10kg washing powder boxes onto the bottom frame of the trolley, below the basket area. It was too far down for us till-monkeys to see most of the time. You learnt to look down the queue and be aware that such boxes were due soon eventually. However, the easiest theft was just to push a whole full trolley out of the fire escape in broad daylight. It set off a coded alarm "Would Mrs. Manager please contact extension 99, please, Mrs. Manager please contact extension 99." over the tannoy system, but being a fire escape was neither blocked, nor even locked. Would happen weekly.

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