This is so it. If I make a mistake, I'd be sorry, I'd pay for it and that's it.

A friend of mine who works at the headquarters of a large local retailer keeps getting stopped by shop detectives of the same shop chain, even though he didn't do anything suspicious. Well, anything apart from being the son of parents from Afghanistan.

In the US almost all things that are tried in a criminal court require the concept of "mens rea" which means "guilty mind." That requires the proof of intent. Not everything does and I'm not sure about retail theft.

Is it EVER lower? Every time in recent history that a price has been wrong for me, it's been wrong because they "forgot" to put a sale into the system. But you better be sure the old sales are wiped immediately. I imagine this is because they expire automatically, but there's a reason the system is made that way.

Hanlon's razor is reversed when dealing with multi-billion dollar corporations.

It very much depends on your skin colour. Me, as a white guy in Austria, no, they wouldn't report me. I'd be very sorry about the mistake and I'd pay for it, and of course it would just be a mistake.

A friend of mine who's parents are from Afghanistan, he gets stopped all the time by store detectives, even though he works as a software developer for the same company. He's never made a scanning mistake, but if he would, there would be no doubt they'd report him. They stop him even though he did nothing suspicious apart from having slightly darker skin and a beard.

Lol, in Finland you definitely will get reported for forgetting to scan a 0,50€ yoghurt. And it will go to court.

That's a decision made about you by other people who don't know you, and aren't inclined to give you the benefit of the doubt.

They even call the security and police. Yes, they call it thief.

I almost exclusively use self checkout because it is quicker, and I felt rushed exactly once because a line was forming. Funny thing is, because I felt rushed I literally forgot to pay and just walked out with a free load of groceries. I did come back the next day and told them, and asked to pay because I didn't want to risk getting banned from that store, as it is the closest one to me. They said nobody ever comes back to do that lmao