英國商店自助結賬滋生偷盜行爲

Light-fingered Britons are stealing 3.2 billion pounds of goods through self-service tills each year, with almost one in four people admitting taking at least one item without paying for it.

喜歡順手牽羊的英國人每年通過自助收銀機偷走的商品價值達32億英鎊，近1/4的人承認自己曾在未付賬的情況下拿走至少一樣商品。

Theft from unmanned checkouts has more than doubled over the past four years, according to a study cited by The Times newspaper, raising questions about viability of the devices in some stores in Britain.

《泰晤士報》援引的一項研究顯示，過去4年間，無人收銀臺發生的偷竊翻了不止一倍，引發人們對英國部分商店裏這種設備的可行性的質疑。

The loss equates to five pounds of goods per Briton per month, the newspaper said.

該報稱，這一損失相當於每個英國人每月偷走5英鎊的商品。

"Toiletries, fruit and veg and dairy products are the most common items taken and almost half of people who steal from the checkouts claim to do so regularly," it reported.

《泰晤士報》報道稱：“洗漱用品、果蔬和奶製品是最常被偷的商品，近一半從收銀臺順手牽羊的人稱自己經常這麼做。”

The study also suggested the high theft rate is not entirely because of a collapse in public morals but because the machines do not always work properly.

該研究還稱，盜竊率高不完全是因爲公共道德的崩潰，還因爲這些機器並不總是能正常工作。

There are an estimated 50,000 self-service tills across Britain, according to the newspaper.

《泰晤士報》稱，全英國估計有5萬臺自助收銀機。