The other day a friend asked me if I knew how much a large size supermarket made every day. At first I was guessing about $200,000 but apparently I was way off as it was actually in the millions. That seemed kind of crazy to think about. That then brought up the topic of automatic self-check outs and how it\u2019s cheaper for the business. I was then saying there must be a lot of fraud with those things. For example, how can the machine know if you chose the organic apple versus the non organic one? Like there people could easily game the systemto get the cheaper price.<\/p>\n
He then expressed how while that is true the majority of people are honest and the business still ends up saving money. In many ways the business just accepts the loss as a regular expense of sort as the money they bring in from having the system in general more than makes up for it. That definitely wouldn\u2019t go too well for a smaller business of course if you don\u2019t exactly do really large volumes of sale.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s an interesting thought though to not really care too much of the dishonest people as opposed to dumping in a lot of resources to try and stop them. I suppose it\u2019s kind of like a retail store that gives a fussy customer something at a loss just because the time in dealing with them isn\u2019t worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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