(01-22-2023, 09:43 PM)Seeeeee Wrote: Walmart, shockingly. I assume they stepped it up because they're probably the most hit by people trying to scam the self checkout.

(01-22-2023, 09:52 PM)EquitableEngineer Wrote:

(01-22-2023, 09:43 PM)Seeeeee Wrote: Walmart, shockingly. I assume they stepped it up because they're probably the most hit by people trying to scam the self checkout.

Yeah luckily i dont have that retailer where im at.

(01-29-2023, 05:23 PM)sinisterlee Wrote: Your method is good but if they catch you, it is hard to put up a defence if you have a weighed carrot sticker on a pack of steak.
Had a couple of friends who took clearance food labels and put them on steak food packs.
The weights were close enough as there are variances with steak and the technology for selfcheckout tills was quite new at the time.

For more modest savings you can do the following:

1) Weigh organic fruits as regular fruits
2) Choose a similar looking but cheaper pastry
3) Take two products, for example ginger and an expensive exotic fruit, weigh a large amount of the more expensive product that you want as ginger.
Scan some other items meanwhile and later weigh a light amount of ginger to have it as a backup.
If you get caught you can say that you had ginger on your mind and you made a mistake.
This will also be on your bill so it would look more like a genuine mistake.

(01-21-2023, 06:30 AM)EquitableEngineer Wrote: I have to say I am partial to the old vegetable switcheroo occasionally where you weigh steaks or some other expensive grocery items as carrots and pay a fraction of the cost - this only works at the self serve checkouts so beware. Its almost the perfect crime because you can go to self serve and scan your 'carrots' right there in front of everyone and the employees without raising any eyebrows, you just have to make sure you are quick when you weigh the 'carrots' initially and not be seen doing it. I dont weigh at the self serve itself but rather in the vegetable aisle where they have those dedicated scales for weighing your veg and printing the little sticker that has the barcode to be scanned. Just slap that baby over the barcode on your steak and enjoy a nice juicy steak for under £0.30. If you are wondering I choose carrots because it is the cheapest option to choose from where I reside.

Would love to hear your tricks for keeping the cost of groceries down

(01-30-2023, 04:11 AM)KingDead Wrote: My mother is a pro at self checkout. She fills the cart with a ton of recyclable bags you bring your self then uses the scan gun and puts filled bags on top of items she never even takes out of the cart. She gets like half her groceries free.

I just use Walmart+ and Instacart and then check that every item was damaged or missing and they refund me.
Walmart refunds me even if I choose curbside pickup and even on the few items they say I have to return to the store but never do.
Plus if you use SNAP its back in your account in 3 hours.
Last month I checked my SNAP and somehow had $650 because I think Walmart fucked up and refunded me multiple times.
It's crazy I have so much food I can't even eat it before it goes bad.

(01-30-2023, 04:51 AM)EquitableEngineer Wrote:

(01-30-2023, 04:11 AM)KingDead Wrote: My mother is a pro at self checkout. She fills the cart with a ton of recyclable bags you bring your self then uses the scan gun and puts filled bags on top of items she never even takes out of the cart. She gets like half her groceries free.

I just use Walmart+ and Instacart and then check that every item was damaged or missing and they refund me.
Walmart refunds me even if I choose curbside pickup and even on the few items they say I have to return to the store but never do.
Plus if you use SNAP its back in your account in 3 hours.
Last month I checked my SNAP and somehow had $650 because I think Walmart fucked up and refunded me multiple times.
It's crazy I have so much food I can't even eat it before it goes bad.

Your mother has more balls than your father lol Nice job on the free food, be sure to give away as much of it as you can to people in need.

(01-30-2023, 05:07 AM)KingDead Wrote: I've noticed once people hit a certain age they use it as a excuse to steal.
Once my mom hit 55 she started going return and self checkout crazy. She buys expensive beauty products(face creams, shampoo, conditioner, .ect) and Tide detergent and refills it with Dollar Store shit and returns it. Then hand writes what's really in the shitty $1 Suave bottles. And expensive plants and trees? She plants a couple of dead branches in the same pot and returns it. Her house is like a jungle.
She's a pretty good old school grifter. 😂

(01-30-2023, 05:07 AM)KingDead Wrote:

(01-30-2023, 04:51 AM)EquitableEngineer Wrote:

(01-30-2023, 04:11 AM)KingDead Wrote: My mother is a pro at self checkout. She fills the cart with a ton of recyclable bags you bring your self then uses the scan gun and puts filled bags on top of items she never even takes out of the cart. She gets like half her groceries free.

I just use Walmart+ and Instacart and then check that every item was damaged or missing and they refund me.
Walmart refunds me even if I choose curbside pickup and even on the few items they say I have to return to the store but never do.
Plus if you use SNAP its back in your account in 3 hours.
Last month I checked my SNAP and somehow had $650 because I think Walmart fucked up and refunded me multiple times.
It's crazy I have so much food I can't even eat it before it goes bad.

Your mother has more balls than your father lol Nice job on the free food, be sure to give away as much of it as you can to people in need.

I've noticed once people hit a certain age they use it as a excuse to steal.
Once my mom hit 55 she started going return and self checkout crazy. She buys expensive beauty products(face creams, shampoo, conditioner, .ect) and Tide detergent and refills it with Dollar Store shit and returns it. Then hand writes what's really in the shitty $1 Suave bottles. And expensive plants and trees? She plants a couple of dead branches in the same pot and returns it. Her house is like a jungle.
She's a pretty good old school grifter. 😂

(01-30-2023, 08:56 PM)ffeffffefff Wrote:

(01-30-2023, 05:07 AM)KingDead Wrote:

(01-30-2023, 04:51 AM)EquitableEngineer Wrote: Your mother has more balls than your father lol Nice job on the free food, be sure to give away as much of it as you can to people in need.

I've noticed once people hit a certain age they use it as a excuse to steal.
Once my mom hit 55 she started going return and self checkout crazy. She buys expensive beauty products(face creams, shampoo, conditioner, .ect) and Tide detergent and refills it with Dollar Store shit and returns it. Then hand writes what's really in the shitty $1 Suave bottles. And expensive plants and trees? She plants a couple of dead branches in the same pot and returns it. Her house is like a jungle.
She's a pretty good old school grifter. 😂

Lol a friend used to do this with supplements & protein powder at Whole Foods. They have a really good return policy so you can just dump the pills out, put whatever pills you want in, and return them.

Friend had a ton of protein powder that didn't work for them, so they would swap them for a kind Whole Foods had and return.

(01-30-2023, 06:48 AM)EquitableEngineer Wrote:

(01-30-2023, 05:07 AM)KingDead Wrote: I've noticed once people hit a certain age they use it as a excuse to steal.
Once my mom hit 55 she started going return and self checkout crazy. She buys expensive beauty products(face creams, shampoo, conditioner, .ect) and Tide detergent and refills it with Dollar Store shit and returns it. Then hand writes what's really in the shitty $1 Suave bottles. And expensive plants and trees? She plants a couple of dead branches in the same pot and returns it. Her house is like a jungle.
She's a pretty good old school grifter. 😂

That is amazing haha Sounds like she could teach us a few things round here