CRIMINAL?

So, a man goes in to Tescos in Luton and uses the self service till, swipes his voucher and gets extra clubcard points. He then realises that the computer is set up poorly and can swipe his voucher as many times as he wants and accrues 75,000 clubcard points.

He got 120 hours community service.

In either Tescos or Sainsburys last year they had the deal on bananas or carrotts programmed wrong into the till.Some clever customer spotted this and worked it so if he bought so many the till told the cashier to give the customer money, which they did. I can see how there may be a issue with morals and ethics for this man from Luton but I fail to see how the fact someone who exploited a mistake made by Tescos is breaking the law. Serves them bloody right for relying on computers so much. This angers me so. Im not a dishonest person and if self service tills didnt freak me out so much and I spotted the loop hole then I would have done it too. Maybe not to the pisstaking realms of 75,000 but a few times.

It surely is Tescos fault. Self service tills...I mean for frigs sake. I've never liked them, I thought they were designed to check your honesty. They cant be cost effective cos they usually have a few staff watching them incase they break or the customer doesnt scan the item right.

I went to Tescos and bought some flowers. They were £9.99. The price scanned up £4.99. Cos Im a ridiculously honest catholic girl I told the lady and she said that she had to charge what the till told her to do.

Ha, I rest my case.