“Supermarket Cashier Attempts to Defraud Employer, Pays Only 30€ for 2900€ Worth of Groceries”

The Carrefour supermarket in Thionville had hired her as a cashier for a period of four months. A 23-year-old young woman was then prosecuted for having tried to defraud her employer. Buzzly tells you everything.

A supermarket cashier dared an incredible scam!

The Carrefour supermarket in Thionville (Moselle) has, indeed, prosecuted one of its cashiers for attempted fraud.

This young woman had indeed taken advantage of her position to charge a sum far less than the actual value of her sisters’ purchases, on December 31, 2020.

So on December 31, 2020, his two sisters walk into the supermarket, each pushing a shopping cart.

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Using a scanner, a portable barcode reader used to scan products as they go, they generously fill the carts.

While making each her cart overflow, they only scan the cheapest products. Then they go to the cash register of their elder sister, accomplice.

The latter then bills them the sum of more or less 30 euros instead of the 2,900.75 euros of products that the two carts contain.

Products they intended to stock in the trunk of the supermarket cashier’s car, parked in the parking lot.

“At first I didn’t want to. Then I finally gave in.”

The 23-year-old cashier, who had been hired by the supermarket for a four-month term, told the court that she was not the source of this idea of ​​​​massive theft.

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“My sisters came up with the idea. At first I didn’t want to. Then I ended up giving in for food products only.« , she told the court.

But their plan couldn’t work thanks to the watchful eye of a supermarket security guard. The very overflowing trolleys of these two women who only had one scanner challenged the latter.

The two young women were then the subject ofan arrest at the exit of the supermarket. And the stolen goods were obviously recovered.

“A family that is in a situation of great financial difficulty”

“This is a family that is in a situation of great financial difficulty. His contract was ending. She let herself be dragged into this situation that she was not able to stop”pleads the defense lawyer.

However, “out of the 2,900.75 euros of goods, there were only 300 euros of foodstuffs”then underlines Eric Lambert, the president of the court.

The supermarket cashier’s clean criminal record allowed him to receive a light sentence.

In fact, she got 70 hours of community service within 18 months or, failing that, to a sentence of two months in prison, according to the Lorraine Republican.

Otherwise, she will serve a two-month prison sentence.