Shop workers have revealed the top secret (and underhand) tactics that bargain cheats use to get the biggest supermarket discounts.
Whether your favourite coffee is reduced or multi-packs on sale, none of us are immune to the lure of a bargain.
But some people use questionable tactics since the birth of self-service checkouts and go to extreme lengths to cheat the system - and here are just a few of their methods.
One supermarket saw a sharp rise in people ripping off stalks from broccoli in a desperate bid to reduce the weight and save cash, reports the Mirror.
Clamping down on the practice, the supermarket warned that it would charge double if workers caught the cheeky customers having a go at this.
But if you think that's bad, then prepare yourself because it gets a whole lot worse, as workers shared other experiences with crafty customers.
Mike, who was previously the manager of a supermarket in Oz, said some of the worst bargain cheats' attempts were essentially stealing - so don't do it or you could find yourself in trouble.
He said one of the most common scams was customers pulling discount stickers off one item and placing it on another, as reported by News.com.au.
The store had a policy that meant they had to honour the discounted rate, making it the perfect cheat.
To combat the problem, they started adding product codes to discount stickers to be able to track which item it was originally attached to.
But customers then started simply tearing those details off the sticker too and Mike said it was a "constant game of cat and mouse".
Another trick people would do is intentional make holes in packaging, like cereal boxed, and then try to claim a discount on the item when they got to the till.
The former manager said they would be able to identify serial offenders using CCTV footage.
Elsewhere, a manager of another store said the bottom of tomato crates were always full of tomato trusses as customers ripped off the stalks to make them cheaper.
They "hadn't just fallen off spontaneously", he blasted.
He also the store used bags with a plastic insert at the bottom to maintain the structure - which happened to be ideal for hiding chocolate bar underneath.
Customers who were caught, could fend off accusations by saying it slipped under there accidentally.
One of Mike's worst peeves was when customers would eat fruit on the way round the shop and had the cheek to just weigh the peel when it came time to paying.
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He said some shoppers would grab the largest pieces of fruit they could find, eat it, and then dig out the smallest piece of fruit as a substitute for staff to weigh instead.
While the incidents may seem insignificant in isolation, Mike said the costs adds up.
He said: "Over a course of a year some of these people were getting away with hundreds of dollars through their cheap little tricks. It’s essentially stealing."
