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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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• Re:Dog bites man (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 06 2021, @09:10PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 06 2021, @09:10PM (#1184937)

  Do you have any data to back that up? Because the numbers I've seen from shops don't show any increase in untracked inventory loss after rolling out self-service checkouts, including in Waitrose where their self-service machines don't weigh things

  Why would the regular customers want to steal from Waitrose? If you've chosen to shop there despite their perceived (but not necessarily so) higher prices, and you know they are a workers' cooperative, why would you want to steal when you know you're stealing from the employees and not from some faceless rich owner?

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