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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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Teenager Jailed After Buying PS4 for £8 by Weighing it and Paying for it as Food
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(Score: 2) by Tork on Wednesday October 06 2021, @03:36PM (5 children)
It could serve as a cautionary tale about the dangers of removing people from places like grocery stores. I say 'could' because lesson-learning is not something those in charge are known for.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 06 2021, @06:16PM (4 children)
I'm sure the businesses have done the cost benefit analysis and have determined that the money saved on labor outweighs the increase in theft. Labor is generally a business's biggest expense.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Wednesday October 06 2021, @06:28PM (3 children)
At least that's the claim we get whenever talk about the minimum wage or automation. Reality has not lived up to that, however.
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 06 2021, @07:07PM (2 children)
So then what do you propose is their biggest expense and do you have supporting evidence?
(Score: 3, Informative) by Tork on Wednesday October 06 2021, @07:18PM
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 1) by shrewdsheep on Thursday October 07 2021, @07:37AM
Large supermarkets have personnel cost of ~5% of revenue. The gross margins are much higher than that. Given that profit margins are ~3%, personnel is a relevant cost factor but not the most important by far.