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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 rcamera on Wednesday October 06 2021, @07:31PM
they could just follow the example of my local cvs; 1 person working the checkout lane and 2 self-checkout machines that don't take cash. and the machines suck to the point that every item triggers an error so the 1 person actually working the checkout lane needs to go "fix" the machine(s) every 10 seconds. it's an additional 5 minutes each way to go to the supermarket instead, but ends up having a shorter total round-trip time
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