{"id":71646,"date":"2025-02-06T09:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T09:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=71646"},"modified":"2025-02-06T09:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T09:34:10","slug":"rise-of-the-self-checkout-thieves-more-than-a-third-of-shoppers-admit-to-failing-to-scan-at-least-one-item-with-men-and-people-aged-under-35-the-most-likely-to-steal-survey-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/02\/06\/rise-of-the-self-checkout-thieves-more-than-a-third-of-shoppers-admit-to-failing-to-scan-at-least-one-item-with-men-and-people-aged-under-35-the-most-likely-to-steal-survey-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"Rise of the self-checkout thieves: More than a THIRD of shoppers admit to failing to scan at least one item with men and people aged under 35 the most likely to steal, survey reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/02\/04\/13\/94844367-14358669-But_there_are_concerns_that_frustrated_shoppers_are_occasionally-m-14_1738674301166.jpg\" alt=\"But there are concerns that frustrated shoppers are occasionally helping themselves to items when the tills fail to work properly\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More than a third of Brits openly admit to using self-service checkouts to steal from shops &#8211; amid concerns &#8216;middle-class shoplifters&#8217; are\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12774461\/self-service-tills-rise-middle-class-shoplifters-Marks-Spencer-shoppers-walking-without-paying-scanners-fail-register-items.html\" target=\"_self\">adding fuel to the fire of Britain&#8217;s store theft crisis<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14358669\/rise-self-checkout-thieves-shoppers-admit-failing-scan.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>More than a third of Brits openly admit to using self-service checkouts to steal from shops &#8211; amid concerns &#8216;middle-class shoplifters&#8217; are\u00a0adding&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-71646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cost-of-living-crisis"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/self-check-out.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71647,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71646\/revisions\/71647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}