Disclaimer: this is just a meme.
Clerk: “Um, sir, that doesn’t look like a banana. Are you sure you entered the right code?”
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The jig is up. Run
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Apologize profusely
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[Rhetoric: Heroic 15] Convince the clerk you don’t know what fruits are
EVEN 58%
+1 You look terribly frazzled
This is a Red Check. It can not be retried
Rhetoric: [Heroic: Success] “Is this not a banana?” You say in the most genuine tone you can muster
Savior Faire: You may have been caught, but you managed to feign enough innocence to get trouble off your backThe clerk gives a dumbfounded expression
Clerk: “Uhm, no sir, that is an avocado, not a banana”
Half-Light: She is too terrified of your empty skull to properly correct you on thisEncyclopedia: It is in fact *not* a banana. A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa. In some countries, bananas used for cooking may be called “plantains”, distinguishing them from dessert bananas. The fruit is variable in size, color, and firmness, but is usually elongated and curved, with soft flesh rich in starch covered with a rind, which may be green, yellow, red, purple, or brown when ripe. The fruits grow upward in clusters near the top of the plant. Almost all modern edible seedless (parthenocarp) bananas come from two wild species – Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana. The scientific names of most cultivated bananas are Musa acuminata, Musa balbisiana, and Musa × paradisiaca for the hybrid Musa acuminata × M. balbisiana, depending on their genomic constitution. The old scientific name for this hybrid, Musa sapientum, is no longer used.
Oh shit I’m gonna replay it again
>me arguing with the self checkout override Lady
: "I just wanna buy these roma tomatoes "
: “Avocados aren’t red”
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look I’m all for sticking it to the Man and stealing if you’re actually starving but a lot of you people are just Petty thieves
The grocery stores are as well when there’s record inflation and people struggling and they are all posting record profits.
How do you find that out?
They fucking brag about it on their earnings calls.
Thanks. I was hoping there was some way to verify that.
Different industry but same behavior: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syugb2Q9erY
They are all pretty thoroughly shameless.
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Thanks mister bot sir! I’ll try to remember this in the future. Fick “The Man™”
“On Tuesday, Conagra Brands—one of the largest consumer packaged goods companies in the U.S.—announced that it had posted a nearly 60% year-over-year profit increase between December 2022 and February 2023.”
https://time.com/6269366/food-company-profits-make-groceries-expensive/
I just googled grocery profits
Ok, how do journalists find that out?
You know, if you really bothered to read the article they actually linked the reports from the company.
If you bothered to read the article, you would know that it doesn’t claim that companies are posting record profits.
what about sticking it to the man because fuck him
Correct. Still not sorry.
I always keep in mind the old adage, if you saw someone stealing food, no you didn’t.
I agree if I was starving I would steal too but a lot of the comments in this thread are talking about stealing things that are just expensive because they’re expensive
Thanks for the heads up. That day, I did not have time or motivation to read the entire thread.
Most businesses are too, so why should we be the bigger man?
If they can’t handle Capitalism, which includes theft, they should try to change it.
most businesses are not thieves that is such a silly way to look at the world. now if you’re talking about large corporations in large enterprises I would be a little bit more understanding of your statement. when you’re talking small and medium and even large size businesses it’s hardly the case.
Wage theft is significantly more common than petty theft and occurs because the victims often don’t have the ability to fight back.
I see where you’re coming from but you can’t deny that these corporations don’t prey on the very people they employ.
I just said that
You ever buy the cheap wine, pull off the barcode and bring it back to the store, then buy the fancy expensive stuff with the cheap barcode over the top. They never notice, wine bottles all look the same to them.
c/unethicallifehacks
That and coupon fraud. Remember when people were walking out of the store with free xboxes using coupons they made?
They watch that a little more carefully now.
The term for that is “slap tagging.”
When I ran the Marine Department at a major outdoor retailer, I was always fighting the warehouse team because they’d just roll out a high-end sonar unit in a cart for my people to stock and walk away, and there were people who would slap that them as shitty units from the same company, and the cashier wouldn’t notice the difference between a Garmin 4CV (about $100) and a Garmin 8612 (about $5000).
It’s strange how the disproportionality of wealth makes theft seem ok.
In this case it doesn’t, you’re stealing luxury items that are playing a huge huge role in water consumption. It’s like 91 liters of water per day per tree.
And an academic study focusing on global implications for water scarcity from the growth in avocado production says that that growing avocado requires “four times more water than the production of a kilo of oranges and ten times of that of a kilo of tomato”.
Now check up how much water is required for meat, and suddenly realise that you’re maybe fighting the wrong battle here mate.
Regardless.
I’m aware how much water animals consume when compared to plants and there are crops that are simply unjustifiable and are running water reservoirs dry.
If we are to be intellectualy honest regarding preservation of resources, there are no sacred cows.
I agree, but all I’m saying is we can shame people for nearly any partaking in modern western society. Unfortunately, we ourselves are have no other choice thanyo partake ourselves. And our individual choices make very little to change the system. Therefore, I just find it funny that people lecture others on things like avocados. There’s a hundred worse things, but just because someone stole an avocado isn’t going to affect our society. We might as well start with bigger culprits, if we even think that going that route is relevant.
Either way this is a meme. No need to take it seriously.
I would also shoplift meat
Whataboutism is a logical fallacy. One has nothing to do with the other.
Exactly avocados being bad for the environment doesnt have anything to do with having the right to steal them.
Kek
Yes. Animals drink. They also pee, providing nitrogen fertiliser. It’s even worse when they are raised on a meadow instead of in a barn as then you have rainfall, which percolates.
Never trust a statistic you didn’t fudge yourself.
Don’t forget all the water used to grow their food.
Like 70% of all our crops are grown to feed our livestock.
Have you ever thought about the massive water usage of international shipping?
No I’m serious. People complain about animal agriculture and then want herds of rowing bisons back. I’m actually not opposed to that either but that doesn’t mean that there will be less animals eating less plants. And if we don’t eat them then other predators will.
wait but would paying for it be better? does it just goes into the pocket of the store owner and gives them more motive to sell avocados? anyways i feel bad for enjoying avocados now sob
The best case scenario is people stop buying exotic foods and instead be ok with what is in season with an occasional treat.
Oranges and tomatoes are also mostly water by weight. If you were to compare the water mass percentages of each of those fruits, you’d probably find the avocado is more efficient in calories and nutrients per water usage.
So is an avocado, density isn’t really an indicator of water weight, you and I are mostly water and still fairly dense.
Its not that. It’s people taking some payment for having to do the store’s job for them.
the fuckers have cameras and “AI” detection here, if it looks and sees something it doesn’t think is a banana the whole thing stops and signals a staff over. doing groceries is seriously more fucked than going through airport security now.
fuck Woolworths and coles
That’s why I bag bananas and apples, weigh only 1 or 2 and have the rest of the bag off the side. As close to “on the house” as possible
There is a DVR product called SaleGuard that can detect this from existing or integrated camera systems. It tends to work fairly well.
I mean, they’re not gonna nab you for apples unless they get enough of a rolling tally on what you took to actually prosecute usually. That’s what most corps do.
Organic veg looks just like regular veg. Just saying
Wonder how advanced it is. Maybe you could get away with avocado as loose potatoes as the shape is closer.
colour probably matters too. you could probably get away with something in mushroom bags (brown paper bag) but of course only worth it for things worth more than mushrooms
Don’t feel bad, you earned it. Imagine how it’s cheaper for companies to pay god knows how much on anti-theft measures instead of paying a living wage to cashiers.
ps. You should never use self checkout. We’ve all been tricked into thinking we can do it better/faster ourselves.
I use self checkout because I don’t want to fake a conversation with the cashier.
LOL companies actually encourage this fake bullshit. It’s called “adding value to the relationship” Bet you didn’t realize that someone putting your canned beans and tampons into paper bags constituted a relationship.
Where I live cashiers don’t bag your stuff. I wouldn’t consider that a default
Yep this depends on the store.
I use self-checkout because I have a “20% off your entire cart” coupon that I don’t want to give up. When I scan it, I just put a random piece of paper into the slot so the machine registers that I put something in there. In this way, I kind of am getting paid to scan my own groceries.
ps. You should never use self checkout. We’ve all been tricked into thinking we can do it better/faster ourselves.
Fuck off, it’s faster for me and I vastly prefer it. Quicker, less need to deal with other people and there’s no rush to bag your stuff. If you don’t want to use self-checkout then don’t.
I go to self checkout because my closest supermarket has one cash register and the queue is always like 6 old people
The grocery store should also plan out my meals, drive me to their store, put the items in the cart for me, and then scan them all for me. Also they need to drive me back home instead of outsourcing that to me, and then they need to cook supper for me or they’re just cheaping out.
Because the companies get free labor. I refuse unless it’s legit rush for something.
I wonder if people were pissed off that they had to go through the shop picking up products instead of having the shopkeeper do that for them.
What’s next? Expecting you to go to the store yourself?
Maybe, but I like being able to shop for myself. I want to look over my produce and meats.
Yeah you definitely shouldn’t ring up pine nuts as de-shelled sunflower seeds, or use the scan-one add-three to your bag technique at self-checkout 👀
Just scan a banana as an avacado right after. So they are both on your receipt.
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Crazy how all bananas grow with the same code on their sticker…
If you see the slow motion/time lapse of the sticker blossoming, it’s life reaffirming. Fucking beautiful.
The ones from NCR use the camera-based 7879/7895 scales with computer vision to check that you aren’t doing this. It’ll take a picture and require an override where it shows that picture to the attendant.
It’s called produce assurance.
I accidentally bought a bag of avocados for the price of 1 avocado at self checkout. I couldn’t find the bag of avocados in the menu so I just selected avocado in the menu.
It turns out the bag of avocados come with a barcode to scan it 🤦
“Did I see anyone stealing? No, I was too preoccupied with the dread of not being able to survive in this capitalist world, of course I wouldn’t be paying attention to other people.”
turns towards others “Y’all didn’t see a thief right?” complete silence “You see, officer, nothing happened here. Carry on.”
(Maybe I did see a someone casually put items in their bag, but again, I must’ve forgotten that I ever saw that, because the stress of life and all… 😉)
Well that was cringy even though I agree with the sentiment
It’s because they had to type it out to show how good they are.
I’m surprised we haven’t gotten “don’t do this they keep track with cameras until they can charge you with a felony” guy in here yet
So has that ever been debunked? I’m curious how such a system would work but it sounds like fearmongering.
The technology exists. It isn’t that difficult to implement facial tracking on security cameras and maintain a file on shoplifters. Even across multiple stores.
I can’t answer your question, but it is certainly plausible.
Hmm that is scary. I guess face recognition isn’t the only factor either. The way you walk is also quite unique apparently. Like the angle of your feet, how high they go, step size etc
Hmm. Not that I’d risk shoplifting or anything but it’s interesting what companies do against it.
Geee, I wonder what would happen if they paid someone to run your products through and then give you a total at the end so that you may pay…
How are billionaires that fuckjng stupid? Oh yeah. They can afford to be.
There are different types of bread? Oh there is organic and cheap?
Wow sorry but if they outsource even the low income jobs they are so evil they dont deserve anything but that
