Roche Bros. finds credit-card skimmers on self-serve checkouts at suburban stores

By adamg on Wed, 12/27/2023 - 9:11pm

The Swellesley Report reports the chain found the devices, which can read credit-card information, at five of its suburban locations.

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this shouldn't happen

By anon on Wed, 12/27/2023 - 10:49pm.

They're supposed to check for these things constantly with a device that is inserted to check the tolerances of the credit card machines hasn't changed.

Someone wasn't doing what they're supposed to.

Yeah, well

By SwirlyGrrl on Thu, 12/28/2023 - 4:47pm.

"We're understaffed" (because we don't hire enough people ...)

Maybe…

By Bob Leponge on Thu, 12/28/2023 - 4:48pm.

Someone wasn't doing what they're supposed to.

Or maybe they were, which is how the skimmers were discovered? I can’t tell from the article whether the skimmers had been there for an hour or a month when they were discovered.

I hope the discovery and

By Don't Panic on Thu, 12/28/2023 - 12:50am.

I hope the discovery and removal of the scanners costs the scammers more than they profited from them.

“Some customers who have

By Melissa on Thu, 12/28/2023 - 7:58am.

“Some customers who have shopped at any of these 5 locations on the self-checkouts …”

Funny what happens when you reduce human staff …