{"id":335638,"date":"2025-12-07T20:02:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T20:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/335638\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T20:02:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T20:02:22","slug":"wealthy-americans-are-more-likely-to-steal-from-self-serve-checkouts-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/335638\/","title":{"rendered":"Wealthy Americans are more likely to steal from self-serve checkouts: report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rich people, poor behavior.<\/p>\n

Americans who live in households making upwards of $100,000 a year are twice as likely as poverty-stricken shoppers to steal from self-checkouts, a new survey has found.<\/p>\n

A sizable 40% of six-figure earners admitted to deliberately not scanning an item at a store, according to a recent LendingTree report<\/a> \u2014 more than double the 17% of people making $30,000 and under who say they have done the same thing.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, 27% of people in households earning between $50,000 and $99,999 reported that they had purposefully taken something without scanning it.<\/p>\n

The survey also broke down the stats by sex, with men far more likely to steal at the self-checkout than women (38% vs 16%).<\/p>\n

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However, self-checkout theft is rising across all categories, per the report, despite retailers employing AI and more sophisticated weight and scale verifications to clamp down on the scamming shoppers.<\/p>\n

Many of those surveyed say they feel justified in stealing some minor items, with 29% saying stores are large and profitable, so the harm of petty theft feels minimal.<\/p>\n

A further 35% said self-scanning is unpaid labor, and taking small items is compensation.<\/p>\n

\"Many<\/p>\n

Many of those surveyed say they feel justified in stealing some minor items, with 29% saying stores are large and profitable, so the harm of petty theft feels minimal. woff \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n

However, the most common reason for theft is rising prices, with 47% claiming the current financial climate is making essentials unaffordable.<\/p>\n

This stat suggests that even high-income Americans are feeling the squeeze when it comes to shopping, due to inflation and the impact of tariffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rich people, poor behavior. Americans who live in households making upwards of $100,000 a year are twice as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101,169523],"class_list":{"0":"post-335638","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-self-checkout"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}