Chase Wave News Reporter: Xiao Xiao
Correspondent: Liu Chengrui
Editor-in-charge: Dabai
Editor: Sun Wen
In the supermarket, the goods are weighed by "stealing beams and changing pillars", and the high-priced goods are "exchanged" at low prices. On December 21, 2023, the court sentenced He to seven months in prison, suspended for one year, and fined RMB 2,000 for theft.
Ms. Zhong, who works at a supermarket in the city, found that there was an error in the amount when she took inventory of the accounts in May 2023. "How can such a big durian be only 13 yuan!" Ms. Zhong checked the payment list and surveillance video and found that at 10 a.m. on May 15, a woman put a potato on the self-service scale to weigh the durian at the unit price, and then put the printed price tag on the durian in her hand......
On June 29, when the woman came to the supermarket again to shop, she was found by the staff and sent to the public security organs. According to He, at the beginning of March 2023, when she visited the supermarket, she found that the supermarket had added several self-service weighing and self-service cash register equipment.
After investigation, from March to June 2023, He used 10 times to buy goods that exceeded the paid price by means of false weighing by substituting light for heavy, adding after weighing, and omitting scanning in the self-service checkout area, with a total amount of more than 2,000 yuan. After He was arrested and brought into the case, his relatives have compensated the victim's losses and obtained forgiveness on his behalf.
After review by the Hongshan District People's Procuratorate of Wuhan City, it was determined that He had secretly stolen other people's property many times for the purpose of illegal possession, and the amount was relatively large, and his conduct had constituted the crime of theft. Because he truthfully confessed the facts of the crime after being brought into the case, actively made restitution and obtained the victim's forgiveness, and voluntarily admitted guilt and accepted punishment, it was decided to give him a lighter punishment in accordance with law. After hearing, the court rendered the above judgment.
The prosecutor in charge of the case reminded that the self-service shopping mode of unsupervised settlement has brought consumers a convenient and fast shopping environment, and at the same time, it has also put consumers' personal credit to the test. It is suggested that supermarkets should strengthen supervision to prevent petty theft from taking advantage of it, and for the general public, do not be smart and greedy for small profits.