/ck/ - Food & Cooking

If you only steal one item from a self checkout per trip by pretending to scan it, placing it on the weighing area and then at the same time removing the weighed bag to your trolley, is there any possible way you'd be liable if you got caught?

Of course if you're going balls in and just loading up the trolley with stolen goods, you could potentially be prosecuted because it's beyond a doubt. But like, with a few items, surely they can't make you liable and will just give you a scolding. I'm interested in how customers are legally liable for their use of self checkouts, because there's surely you can almost always get away with saying "oh woops, I just fucked it up. Can you scan all this for me, I'm so clumsy, I have X mental condition that impairs my functioning and I should've asked for help! Thank you for understanding".

>>16135392
In 1st world countries we have 'self checkout' machines, where you scan your own items and pay without interacting with a human. It weighs everything you bag-up to make sure you don't steal, which causes problems.