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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 Thursday October 07 2021, @09:53PM
You rules are the same for every other situation. You cannot make the store agree to anything they haven't offered you. They didn't offer you avocados at the apple price nor did they give you the authority to negotiate on their behalf, not even their cashiers have that power. And allowing you to check out your own items pursuant to the same duty of care you have when dealing with anyone else. Just because no one is watching doesn't change that. The items have marked prices, if you don't like it don't get them. You have a duty of care and good faith when doing self-checkout, if you can't handle it, not only should you not do it but you are legally liable for your mistakes when you do.