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[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (9 children)

The chance to be randomly audited would put me off from ever using it again. Specially when you know that randomly = you look brown or immigrant most of times.

[–] flumph 7 points 10 months ago (8 children)

At Giant, I'm pretty sure it's decided by the system based on some algorithm, not the employee. The one time I was audited, we were in the store for a long time and had removed a few items from the cart after adding them.

The audit consisted of the employee scanning ten random items and confirming we had scanned them too.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

When I was using food stamps/EBT, I was audited every time I used the hand scanner at Stop and Shop. Luckily, I don't have to use food stamps anymore.

[–] flumph 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well that's some bull. The software knows what items are covered and which aren't, so that's just assuming folks needing help are thieves.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Yeah, luckily an Aldi opened down the street and I started shopping there. I don't need food stamps now but with the way prices are going...

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