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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 06 2021, @07:53PM
I've never stolen anything from self checkout either, but I also don't typically jaywalk just because there's no traffic either. It's rather naive to assume that other people don't do things like deliberately use the wrong product code on items they need to weigh or decide to give up on scanning something if they can't get help promptly and just take it with them. There's a reason why stores are putting more cameras around the self-checkout area.
This is a couple of years old, but it's quite difficult to get data on things like this.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/03/stealing-from-self-checkout/550940/ [theatlantic.com]