The method by which one steals items from a store by means of the self-checkout register.
Common practice includes scanning an inexpensive item while bagging a near-identical but more costly one, only partially weighing items, or otherwise misrepresenting the count.
Common practice includes scanning an inexpensive item while bagging a near-identical but more costly one, only partially weighing items, or otherwise misrepresenting the count.
Guy1: "Why pay 99¢ for those gourmet, grocery store bagels when a little sleight of scan can get them for the 59¢ doughnut price?"
Guy2: "Dude, seriously? It's forty cents..."
Guy2: "Dude, seriously? It's forty cents..."
by drive-in couch September 25, 2014
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by SuelTameOresuTeMato February 24, 2025
Skip-scanning is when a customer deliberately decides not to scan an item but still puts it in their checkout bag.
A WALMART shopper has revealed that she was wrongly accused of tricking a self-checkout kiosk with “skip scanning.”
by qalachaki December 28, 2023
That Ford and that Chevy over there have their blinkers going at the same speed. I caught it on my blinker scan!
by Whipnwhap! December 12, 2009
by THE PAYROLL REVIEW December 14, 2019
When someone chronically misses obvious details and words after reading or looking at written material. A sister of Tunnel Vision.
His sister sent him his OWN number and he proceeded to ask her who’s number that was….clear case of scanning syndrome
by Crecinda613 February 07, 2025
by Bucket coach June 26, 2023