You ever buy the cheap wine, pull off the barcode and bring it back to the store, then buy the fancy expensive stuff with the cheap barcode over the top. They never notice, wine bottles all look the same to them.
Don't feel bad, you earned it. Imagine how it's cheaper for companies to pay god knows how much on anti-theft measures instead of paying a living wage to cashiers.
ps. You should never use self checkout. We've all been tricked into thinking we can do it better/faster ourselves.
the fuckers have cameras and "AI" detection here, if it looks and sees something it doesn't think is a banana the whole thing stops and signals a staff over. doing groceries is seriously more fucked than going through airport security now.
The ones from NCR use the camera-based 7879/7895 scales with computer vision to check that you aren't doing this. It'll take a picture and require an override where it shows that picture to the attendant.
I accidentally bought a bag of avocados for the price of 1 avocado at self checkout. I couldn't find the bag of avocados in the menu so I just selected avocado in the menu.
It turns out the bag of avocados come with a barcode to scan it 🤦