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[–] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    A couple years ago, I accidentally walked out without paying. I did slide my credit card but didn’t pay attention to what happened. I thought I was done and left, but apparently it didn’t actually work. A minute later they chased me down, but they just let me come back and pay. No big deal.

    I don’t know if it was because I was cooperative, or claimed innocence or was white

    It’s also helpful that I have notification on for that card. I proved to myself immediately that the charge didn’t work and it was just me not getting paying attention

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