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Just shopped a scammer in a store tonight.
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While in a petrol station tonight i caught the cashier scamming the company. She only scanned one of the two packs of smokes that i asked for and told me the full amount of £32.30
It was then i noticed that the front display of the till was covered by a charity box. so i pretended that i was going to put a few coins in the box and moved it over to see that she had indeed only scanned one pack as total on the display was £26.15(£20 of petrol) should have been £32.30 You should have seen the look on her face when i looked up at her, made ever worse when i asked for a receipt. All of a sudden it turns out her till is not working and she can't print one off for me but she can write out a hand written one.
First thing i done when i got home was to call up the manager of the stations main store and report her. Do i feel guilty ? do i heck.. it's people doing stuff like this that forces price increases for us honest folks.
Makes me wonder how often this happens. store losses must be massive due to staff theft like this.
It was then i noticed that the front display of the till was covered by a charity box. so i pretended that i was going to put a few coins in the box and moved it over to see that she had indeed only scanned one pack as total on the display was £26.15(£20 of petrol) should have been £32.30 You should have seen the look on her face when i looked up at her, made ever worse when i asked for a receipt. All of a sudden it turns out her till is not working and she can't print one off for me but she can write out a hand written one.
First thing i done when i got home was to call up the manager of the stations main store and report her. Do i feel guilty ? do i heck.. it's people doing stuff like this that forces price increases for us honest folks.
Makes me wonder how often this happens. store losses must be massive due to staff theft like this.
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You should start wearing a cape, call yourself batman, and we can start calling you whenever we need a hero.:rolleyes:
Though there is probably CCTV above the till and if the receipts don't match, it's all there.
She is lucky to have employment too.
She is no better than all those people jumping on the band wagon robbing stores during the riots.
Just think on, if she did that to all those who were buying two packets of cigs every day, she would be making a fortune. Cigs are around £5 a packet, she only has to do that 10 times a day and she has made £50 on top of her salary.
That would soon put the owner out of business wouldn't it?
The OP did the right thing both in shopping the thief and bringing the scam to our attention. What is the matter with some people ?
the fiddle will not be discovered on any later stock take.
It is the selling of all the sweets and snacks that gives them the opportunity as most customers never aask for the receipt for those. The scam I have frequently had tried out on myself when I buy a few snacks is that the assistant just tells you what you owe without producing any till receipt but they have added a pound or whatever for themselves.
I have had this tried on me so often that I always do a quick mental tot up of what I owe BEFORE I go to the counter.
Because the story has holes you can fit a jumbo jet through.......
* Petrol stations have cameras all over the till area...it won't be hard for management to catch her
* Cigs in a place like that are so tightly audited, combined with the cameras she would have been caught within a week. Another poster said that she could do this 10 times a day....true, but she would have been caught after a day! What are the chances she started her life of crime in front of the OP?
* The OP posted at 5am. I assume that he was at a 24hour station, unless he spent several hours toasting himself with champange, that the events happened fairly recently. I know of no 24hour station that allows access into the shop after about midnight, its always a window job. Impossible then to move the box.
*I realise till displays and charity boxes come in all shapes and sizes but how big would this box have to have been to cover the whole display?
* What was she doing with the money she pilfered? As said before the cameras would have caught her pocketing it.
* How did the OP get hold of the "manager of the stations main store" phone number? OK a (very) small chain might have a "any complaints ring XXXXX on XXXX" sticker, but why not that store manager but a different one? EVen if that did happen, why did it have to be in the early hours of the morning (going from my assumption that it happened recently enough) and as the manager would you be happy to get a phonecall at (say) 2am from a totally random guy?
I'm sure I end dead on, but this continually happens... one explanation would be that I am a tad clumsy and knock the trigger a little more as I take it out. However a more fitting scam would suggest these forecourt thieves are adding on the pennies when we go in there, as a way to punish us non smokers
I know it's only 2 or 3p per customer, but at 2 per minute, 8 hours of a shift... well that equates to... profit.
OP, you should be grateful she's only mugging her boss off.
You really want to hope that nothing you have ever done that is ilegal or underhand comes to the attention of someone like yourself.
Reminds me of the old 'Not the Nine o'Clock News' sketch showing that exact scenario with the nobble button!
That assistant must be considerably brighter than most you find behind a till these days if she was able to add the extra £6.15 on in her head and get the right total.
On their head would be my guess.
Oh well. It's a bloody shame that you have to vet most DS posters these days in case they are bullshit merchants.
I've done my share of check out work and you can't survive on the minimum wage you get paid in these places. If you don't get creative then you can't make ends meet. The smugness and justification in here is unreal, you should try experiencing how management and the public treat you on a till before you go criticising checkout staff.
And if you think that reporting someone will bring down prices then you are beyond naive.
If it continually happens then end your filling-up on an £X.98 :cool:
Perfect username.