Shopkeepers have made a new joke Tesco Var-style safety measures It tries to prevent people from “cone” self-service checkout.
The UK’s largest supermarket chain has installed overhead cameras, which raise whether customers have failed to scan an item, along with the message -before playing an immediately again: “The final item was not scanned properly. Remove from the bagging area and try again.”
The retailer said that this checkout would make the process “faster and easy”, but customers have made fun of online technology.
“VAR decision – Tuna rejected”, an Instagram commentator said.
“Clearly offside”, another joke. “Good process Lads.”
A shopkeeper complained to Reddit that the technology was only more queues. He said: “A few days ago with a bag of salad, barcode which was very close to the weld/join of the weld – was swiping me like a crazy – and the overhead groom showed me the video footage of his wee bald patch and said that I am trying to do the right thing.”
“If their answer to prevent the theft is to offend those who do not steal you, then you should not surprise whether the theft is increasing,” another user posted.
A Tesco worker told the BBC that employees like referee needed all the help they could get as customers try to “con” the system.
A member of the anonymous staff said, “I work on self-service for Tesco and feel that I am double as a security guard.”
“You don’t pay very well anyway and then you have tils to see.
He said, “I often have to monitor 10 self-checkouts, on my own, two staff cover manual checkouts,” he said.
It comes as the number Shoplifting In a year, the crimes registered by the police in England and Wales overtook half a million for the first record, according to the latest data. National statistics office ,Ons,
Police recorded 516,971 shoplifting offenses in 2024, 2023 recorded the highest number of crimes in 429,873 crimes and the practice of keeping modern records in 2003.
ONS said shoplifting crimes have been running at record levels for the last two years, which see the “rapid growth” after the Kovid -19 epidemic.
A Tesco spokesperson said: “We are always looking at technology to make life easier for our customers.