Man fined $320K over self-service checkout habit you may be guilty of too
If you've ever accidentally - or intentionally - swiped an item as a less expensive one at the self-service checkout, you may want to be more careful.
A German man recently copped a $320,000 fine after he put through more than $70 worth of veal as considerably less expensive fruit.
Think that's a bit excessive?
The Munich district court worked out how much the 58-year-old businessman should be fined according to his salary of $37,500 per month, according to ABC News.
Not only was the man fined, but he had been held in jail since December and was only released after his court appearance this month.
Despite his impressive salary the checkout cheat, who has not been named, had been caught doing the same thing three times before.
He also had prior convictions for theft and tax evasion.
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In Australia, Coles is cracking down on supermarket theft, which costs the company more than $1.1 billion per year.
In February 2017 Queensland mother Kylie Milner faced court for an elaborate checkout scam at Coles and Woolworths, for which she received a suspended sentence.
Milner spent months preparing a stash of fake barcodes for 65c and 72c packets of fried noodles, then attached the printed sticky labels to more expensive products and defrauded the two supermarket giants of $4500 worth of products.
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