We asked readers what kind of embarrassing situations they’ve gotten into with shop sensitive burglar alarms.
Yesterday, Wednesday, Iltalehti reported on the event, as a result of which the family will probably start boycotting Prisma.
We asked readers if they have often experienced rescans, random checks or unnecessary alarms.
False alarm
– In the past, the gate alarm happened a few times in a short period of time. A piece of clothing that is old and an ancient lipstick. How about that. Nothing was unauthorized, The sea write.
– While I was visiting Tokmanni, I got an alarm. I was confused because I knew there was nothing wrong with me. We threw my backpack all over the house. Finally the reason was found out. I had bought my backpack in a Chinese store in Spain. And after almost a couple of years of use, something activated the noise in my backpack. The backpack was scanned again and the noise disappeared. I hear it’s not even a rare case, strange indeed, says the name tag Meowing sound.
– I went to Stockman about a year ago. When I came out, there was a commotion and two guards appeared out of nowhere and started digging through my bag. It was embarrassing when another raised his voice a little “here it is”, when he found the DVD I bought in Stockholm and people stared a bit. Fortunately, I had the receipt. No apologies for the false alarm, Aiman Kaki -nickname wonders.
– I myself had the alarm on all the time in between. Still no idea why. It didn’t help even if I emptied the bag and checked it. It lasted a few days and then it disappeared. The second was years ago, when hair dye bought from another store caused an alarm at Prisma. Once a security guard came to complain that I was talking too loudly when otherwise he couldn’t hear. I was just trying to ask what is involved in recycling the different parts of the package. The seller did not agree to come close enough for the conversation to be successful. These self-service cash registers are completely pointless anyway. They can’t read shopping. They should have a larger reading area, name tag Ney’wa saddens.
– A few years ago, an alarm happened to me in the Kerava prism. The guard ushered me into a side room to be checked. Nothing stolen was found. After investigating the matter in more detail, it turned out that it was a wallet bought from Biltema. The alarm had been removed from it on the counter, but apparently some residual radiation remained. I didn’t manage to find a single metal part there even though I tore it apart. There went that wallet. I didn’t dare to use it. Yes, at least then Prisma’s alarms were oversensitive and caused embarrassing situations for customers, Rib1944 write.
– In S group stores, the machine asks the seller to wait almost every time when a single small (apparently too cheap) banana is included with the purchases. In general, the next couple of times you should do business in a K group store, name brand Dishonest buyer of snacks states.
I don’t use
– I simply don’t use self-service cash registers anymore. 9 times out of 10 I’m in purchasing control. I think I’m a normal 60-year-old Finnish man. I don’t drink, let alone buy, alcohol, but something about me seems to interest me. I have never found anything to point out about my purchases. Prisma, the name brand, stands out in the number of inspections Thief? amazes.
– I don’t use self-service cash registers. These rich and busy people do it, here is the result. I want to meet a person, even somewhere, Dr. phil-nickname states.
– I don’t use any self-service activities focused on collection or payment, because I don’t want to steal anyone’s job now, and especially not in the future, Grandpa-noun to write.
– Self-use scanners came to Prisma and I decided to give it a try. At the checkouts, everything was examined and scanned again in the presence of everyone. It was the first and last time I try any self-service in S-markets, Harry to tumble.
– I don’t go to self-service cash registers because if they alert me and I don’t have anything that should trigger an alert, a name badge Anger tells.
– 2.5 years ago I used the self-service scanner at Prisma for the last time. During the payment phase, I was subjected to a random inspection, so that three salespeople told me to put all the purchases on the cash register belt and then carefully scan them. “Surprisingly” I had already scanned all the products myself, but I have never felt more guilty than at that moment. That’s when I decided I’d never touch a self-service scanner again, and that decision has stuck. I don’t understand why such a service is offered if all the customers are potential shoplifters and it is pointed out to them unhindered. Hey, what a “service”, Johanna doesn’t understand.
– The Yankees already noticed that these self-service cash registers do not bring results. They had to raise the prices, because the tweaks and acquisitions did not cover the old costs (i.e. cashiers). The use of these cash registers is no longer even faster, when the standard cash registers have been reduced, there is also a queue for these and the group piles a whole cart’s worth of shopping into them, Packwrite.
If you weigh and buy only one e.g. onion, the IT cash register will call the seller to check why one of the purchases costs so little e.g. 12 cents. Nowadays, I prefer to go to a normal cash register where you can get personal good service without getting the stamp of a thief on your forehead, Former cashier states.
Random inspection
– Random checks from time to time, but mainly the seller has only visually checked that the products in the bag have been scanned. It has also happened a couple of times that when the product (lime) has been weighed, it has become an inspection request for the seller and he has checked that the product in the bag corresponds to the label printed on the scale with the price (7 cents), An alarm clock tells.
– I had to undergo a random inspection in an S group store. The seller suspected that I had cheated when weighing the tomato. He walked me past the entire checkout line to the weigh-in, where I had to weigh four tomatoes again. I found the situation humiliating. When the weighing showed the same amount, he just said “Oh, those were cheap tomatoes”. I don’t go to that store anymore. Victim of random inspection states.
– Four times in a row. The last time I was really upset. I told the inspecting seller matter-of-factly about this “randomness”. I hear it’s random. It looked like he didn’t even believe me. Didn’t find anything to point out the last time either. I have never stolen anything in my life. And I don’t even dare to go to those express checkouts anymore, if it happens that I forgot to scan that one jar of yogurt, Fun guy saddens.
No problem
– At the local Prisma, they scan only a few products randomly again. What’s wrong with that? Honest customers, however, have to pay for the products left by thieves, Harden the leather encourage.
– Random inspections have happened many times and it’s good that they are taking care. And as it is said in the article that all items are scanned again, that is not true. My wife works at Prisma and never hears everyone rescanned, Tom states.
– I have now been rescanned 5 times in the past couple of years that I have been using the scan. Every time I have gone shopping two days in a row, i.e. the first time I have forgotten something, and then went again the next day. In my Prisma, not everything is rescanned, only some, after all, the sellers can see from their scanner which products I have scanned. Shoplifting and pickpocketing eats up enough capital that my purchases can at least be scanned, Let’s just scan, again(too) write.
– I scan the purchases while shopping. I have often come under scrutiny, which I don’t think is wrong at all. That’s OK. We, the customers, have caused the number of inspections by our own behavior. If you have acted correctly, then there will be no problem when the store personnel carry out checks, Tellu states.
– I only use self-service cash registers. Random checks happen every now and then, especially in Prisms, when I use the self-scanning stick. However, they have only checked two or three products each time, never the whole bag. These have not bothered me, ILS says.