By Jesse Peach
An unwatched customer has two options.
To pay at the self service or, since there's no staff on, make a run for it.
Customers turned up to the Hamilton central Pak’n’Save store to find the doors open, the music playing and the lights on. But there was no one home.
There was a technical fault with the store's new security system. Management says it was a random computer glitch, and they're investigating what went wrong.
“I actually believe a lot of these people just came in today innocently to shop,” says security guard Basil Way.
He's been reviewing the footage of the confused shoppers.
“People have the opportunity to be honest, or be dishonest. Or just run for the hills,” he says.
Management says it's highly embarrassed by what's happened and says thanks to a quick police response - they didn't lose too much.
The management says if any of the thieves come in and pay for what they took, the money will be donated to the Red Cross for Christchurch.
And it warns that it already knows who some of them are, because they're regular customers.
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