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(28 votes) Published: Jun 17, 2008 3:49 p.m. Viewed 155 times
British Supermarket Scams
I am going to show you some techniques and scams about stealing and gaining things from British supermarkets. I am not going to mention the one I work at, as I don’t want to get in trouble for releasing such information.
Firstly as many say but is one of the most important is confidence, if for any reason staff discover you stealing or scamming them if you stay confident and make up a good excuse for it and stick with it, you should be fine.
I have given all the scams a difficulty rating out of 5 for guidance.
1. “Clothes Tags Scam” is one easy one that anyone can do.
Difficulty rating: 3/5 although effective can be quite dangerous if caught.
The normal way we put clothes through the checkout is scanning the tags and then breaking the cardboard circuits.
Not many people know this although its quite obvious if you look for it on the clothes tags. I am sorry for no pictures of this I have looked everywhere on the net and I don’t want to become suspicious by taking photos of the tags at my local store. However they don’t need a picture.
Basically you find the tag on clothing (will not work on expensive clothes with a proper plastic pin tag as these need to be removed at the checkouts) and it should have the branding of the clothes e.g. George at Asda (Wal-Mart for England) Sainsburys is the TU and Tesco is Florence and fred. Well if you look closely you can see a square inside the cardboard tag, bend and rip this and that’s it. Just find a way to get it out of the shop and no alarms are going to go off. Best ways I can think of is actually buying something cheap before hand and get a bag place it in bag and walk out. Like I said be confident, don’t cause any suspicion walk out normally, not like a 5 year old that’s just bought some sweets.
2. “Fast track scam” is another easy yet effective one to do, and very very easy to get out of if caught.
Difficulty rating: 2/5 Again easy but also easier to get out of in trouble
In some supermarkets such as Sainsburys and Morrisons I think some others do aswell usually the big ones they have fast track scanners. These are for people who want to do there shopping pack it along the way, then end up at the til, it will get linked to the computer and it simple downloads what has been scanned and no need for the cashier to scan everything. What makes this scan so easy is that no one checks the trolleys so scan a weeks shop for your family or something and then put in a couple of cans of beer or like some expensive foods. As long as they don’t have security tags you should be fine. Simple scan most things in your shopping trolley to make it look plausible and hide the objects your stealing underneath other bags.
There are 2 situations that could happen with this, firstly the cashier might see something in your trolley that you didn’t scan, all you have to do is simple say oh you forgot to scan that or say an error came up when scanning it. (granted you have now got to pay for it, but you aren’t stealing anything now so the shop has no reason to doubt you).
Secondly there is a thing called a rescan which is where there is an unknown error on the system and all your shopping needs to be scanned again, this causes the same problem as the first as your “stealing” product will be visible and most likely scanned. To get out of this, it is probably best to go the same route as before. The best pieces of advice I can say is start small; take a chocolate bar or 2. If it works your clear. Try bigger next time expensive meat or something (Nothing too obvious like a tv or something silly)
Combine this with the clothes tag scam and you should be able to save some money.
3. “Fruit and veg scam”
Easiest scam in the book and no major punishments if anything goes wrong.
Difficulty rating: 1/5
Another quicky and easy one your grandma probably does.
Basically there are self weighing scales on the shop floor near the produce section, take something expensive like grapes and just put in a small handful, then weigh it, get the ticket and place it in the bag, then add more grapes into it. DONE
Problems: Cashier might recognise the product is too cheap and re weigh it, best-case scenario is they ignore it most of the time and make you pay the full price.
4. “Security Cases”
Difficulty rating: 5/5
When I say security cases I mean the things on cds, dvds and games, these usually have them and cant be taken off unless at the checkout and done by the cashier. However I say this is the most difficult for a reason, the idea in this scam is to obtain one of the magnets they use to reopen the cases, Now in my knowledge there are 2 ways of this. 1 Somehow manage to cut the wire going from the magnet to the base unit and stealing the magnet. 2 getting hold of one through a business of some sort. However with trial and error specific magnets can open the cases aswell but not as easily, it’s your choice on how you want to take this scam. So now you have it open in the shop continue with any way to get it out, be it simply walking out or trying the above methods.
I trust you may know various ways on getting things out of supermarkets so use that knowledge in conjunction with the above, Stay confident, always have a backup story, and try to act apologetic as you can to the supermarket if you were to abort. Just stick to the plan and story and you shouldn’t need to abort.
If you enjoyed this egg and appreciate it I might make another. Please don’t rate down for no pictures I sure you can understand what I’m saying, if not leave a comment and I will reply.
Q&A
These are shit they won’t work in my supermarket?
As I clearly say these should work on most BRITISH supermarkets.
Why are there no pictures?
Truthfully most of these don’t need them but for the ones that may do, where impossible to find (which I explained why in the egg)
OMG STFU NOOB GTFO?
Do I care???
COPIED!!!!!!!
No way i challenge you to find this exact same info somewhere else this was all my ideas put into text
Jun 18, 2008 2:12 am - fuck the hell off hooded. goddamn im tired of reading you negative comments. every fucking egg ive read that you have posted in have been nothing but negative comments
jesus fucking christ this is RE, this isnt some goddamn hardcopy book you purchased from amazon.com this is free fucking material so stop being such an uptight whiney bitch and just accept shit for whut it is
pictures woulda been helpful but if i ever go to Britain ill keep this shit in mind. kewl egg. too bad theft eggs are against the rules. i still protest it being dropped
as for the egg I don’t shoplift anymore cos i sucked at i but some of these are relevant, I do the fast track one all the time at my local Asda and it’s so easy i don’t even think of it as shoplifting, I mean, 1 cashier watching 8 tills during a busy period. I could fill a whole bag of unscanned shopping and walk out with it.
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