Self-service checkout is frequently attacked by black-handed prosecutors.

　　The new mode of self-service scanning code checkout has now become the "standard" of many supermarkets, and it is also the first choice for many citizens to check out after shopping in supermarkets. However, there have also been cases in which a few people steal supermarket goods for the sake of being cheap, without scanning the commodity code. A related person from the Beijing Municipal People’s Procuratorate said that since 2019, the cases of "supermarket theft" in Beijing using supermarket self-checkout procedures have shown an increasing trend. Procuratorial organs have issued procuratorial suggestions for comprehensive management from the perspective of improving the loss prevention mechanism of self-checkout supermarkets. At the same time, it also provides 32 specific suggestions and measures to standardize the loss prevention work of self-checkout supermarkets.

　　"Supermarket Thief" Stares at Small Snacks

　　Nowadays, many supermarkets have introduced self-checkout machines, where customers scan their own goods and then self-checkout by scanning the code. This way saves customers’ waiting time and has won the support of many consumers. At the same time, this convenient means has also been targeted by a few people who are greedy for petty gains and used to commit theft.

　　The reporter of Beijing Youth Daily combed the relevant legal documents related to "supermarket theft" published by the refereeing document network and China Procuratorate network, and found that the perpetrators in many cases of "supermarket theft" had committed many thefts.

　　A judgment issued by the Chaoyang District People’s Court in Beijing in 2021 shows that a post-90s woman used the supermarket self-checkout equipment from May to September 2020 to steal the box lunch, cakes and other goods sold in the supermarket for more than 30 times, with a total value of more than RMB 1,800.

　　Another verdict issued by the Shijingshan District People’s Court shows that a post-80s man stole goods from a supermarket in Shijingshan District 14 times from September to October 2020 by taking out some goods without checking out at the time of self-checkout.

　　Among the relevant legal documents collected by the reporter of Beiqing Daily, the goods stolen by the perpetrators are mainly food and drinks, and most of the time the amount of stolen goods is not high.

　　In the relevant legal documents, the thieves are both young people after 90 and elderly people over 60. Many of the perpetrators have a university education. One woman who works in a university in Beijing has a doctoral degree, but in March 2020, in a store in Haidian District, Beijing, she repeatedly stole yogurt, beef tendon and other commodities by paying without scanning the code.

　　Many "supermarket thieves" have been sentenced.

　　According to the Beijing Municipal People’s Procuratorate, in response to the phenomenon of "supermarket theft", the Beijing Municipal Procuratorate organized a special class to establish a database for "supermarket theft" cases in 16 districts and counties of the city. Through a comprehensive analysis of the basic situation of the subjects involved, the details of the crime and various sentencing circumstances, the criteria for conviction and the application of compulsory measures were formulated, and the standards for handling cases were unified. At the same time, the procuratorial organs also carried out investigation and research on the traceability of similar cases in combination with the follow-up disposal of administrative punishment and the transfer of illegal and criminal clues, and put forward suggestions for governance.

　　The reporter of Beiqing Daily noticed that many criminal suspects who committed "supermarket theft" have been sentenced by the court. The above-mentioned criminal suspect Li Moumou, who was taken out of a supermarket in Shijingshan District for 14 times without checking out some goods, stole the price of goods totaling RMB 7716.5 through value evaluation. The court ruled that Li was guilty of theft, sentenced to one year’s imprisonment, fined 10,000 yuan, and ordered Li to pay back more than 7,000 yuan from the murdered supermarket.

　　Another woman, Liu Moumou, who used self-checkout equipment in a store in Jiuxianqiao, Beijing, has stolen lunch boxes, cakes and other goods in the supermarket for more than 30 times. The court found that the total value of her stolen goods was more than 1,800 yuan. The court finally convicted Liu of theft, sentenced him to five months’ detention, suspended for five months and fined him 3,000 yuan.

　　The prosecution issued a comprehensive management procuratorial proposal.

　　The members of the investigation team of the procuratorate against "supermarket theft" said that the subjective factors of the criminal suspect’s "supermarket theft" include weak legal awareness, luck or revenge. In addition, the weak anti-theft system of supermarket self-checkout and the arbitrariness of self-reconciliation are also important factors leading to the high incidence of "supermarket theft" cases and their derivative crimes.

　　Therefore, on August 25th, the Beijing Municipal People’s Procuratorate issued a comprehensive management procuratorial proposal to the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Commerce from the perspectives of improving the self-checkout supermarket loss prevention mechanism, improving the enthusiasm of supermarket enterprises to enhance their loss prevention ability by using scientific and technological means, and establishing a daily communication and coordination linkage mechanism for supermarket loss prevention. At the same time, it also provides 32 specific suggestions and measures to standardize the loss prevention work of self-checkout supermarkets. "For example, in order to better fix the relevant evidence of self-service settlement disputes, we suggest that Shangchao enterprises record and transmit customer checkout video information in the self-service cashier area according to law. The video storage time of shops is not less than one month, and the video storage time of large supermarkets is not less than three months." Liu Zhe, deputy director of the First Procuratorial Department of the Beijing Municipal Procuratorate, said, "These specific suggestions and measures come from the whole city in the past three years ‘ Supermarket thief ’ The experience in handling such cases, as well as the management experience of the previous hospitals in handling and issuing procuratorial suggestions on individual cases, are closer to the practice of self-checkout operation of Shangchao. "

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　　Supermarket managers: New prevention technologies are being popularized.

　　Mr. Sun, a manager of a large supermarket chain in Beijing, told the reporter of Beiqing Daily that at present, almost all the stores in the supermarket have introduced self-checkout equipment, which saves the labor of the supermarket, shortens the queuing time of customers and reduces the gathering of people. However, there are indeed a few people who commit theft in order to take advantage of small things.

　　Mr. Sun said that in general, the staff of the supermarket will be on duty in the self-checkout equipment area, which is mainly responsible for providing guidance to the elderly and other people who are not familiar with the self-checkout machine. They will also pay attention to which customers have missed the checkout goods and remind them at any time. "A person on duty may be responsible for five or six checkout machines at the same time, and there will be situations that cannot be taken care of." To this end, the mall will also take some technical means to assist in processing. Some problems are often not discovered until the inventory, which is also the reason why some thieves were discovered after they succeeded in stealing many times.

　　Mr. Sun said that there are some new technologies that can ensure that merchants can be reminded at the first time after the "supermarket theft" happens. "New technologies are the future direction and will continue to be popularized in the future."

　　Procuratorial organ: recording special programs to show up

　　A related person from the Beijing Procuratorate said that in order to improve the loss prevention work of the self-checkout system of Shangchao enterprises, the procuratorate participated in the recording of the relevant TV program "Supermarket Theft", combined with the experience of handling cases, conveyed the concept of the rule of law, and enhanced the people’s awareness of knowing the law, understanding the law, abiding by the law and usage.

　　At the same time, the procuratorial organs will take the "punishment" and "governance" of "supermarket theft" as a small incision to promote the construction of misdemeanor governance system and refined management system of megacities, and will promote the construction of big data model and light application of ordinary crime prosecution and misdemeanor prosecution as a whole, providing data support for tracking and paying attention to the changes of procuratorial business data indicators before and after the crime of "supermarket theft" governance, and promoting the overall improvement of traceability governance efficiency.

　　Legal person: petty theft or criminal responsibility.

　　Han Xiao, a lawyer of Beijing Kangda Law Firm, also told the reporter of Beiqing Daily that the self-checkout machine relies on the integrity of all aspects of society. Consumers should fulfill the principle of good faith when self-checkout and consciously scan the code to pay. Taking away the goods without scanning the code is legally a theft, and it will be criminally responsible for stealing for greed and cheapness.

　　This group/reporter Qu Chang