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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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 06 2021, @05:05PM (1 child)
I worked at Aldi for a while. They looked into it and decided it definitely wasn't worth it. Their checkout chicks are super fast, their products have a barcode on every side and they just push the products past the scanner. The customer puts them straight back in the trolley and then goes to pack them in their own bags on a bench out past the the checkouts.
The average cashier at Aldi scans about 1200 items an hour.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 07 2021, @02:59AM
And apparently my double scan detection skills have faded a bit since then.