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Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

caddie de complaisance

English translation:

sweethearting

Added to glossary by Stephanie Mitchel
Oct 26, 2016 14:37
7 yrs ago
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French term

caddie de complaisance

French to English Bus/Financial Human Resources corporate ethics
Hello! This is a passage about different kinds of retail employee fraud, one being collusion between a cashier and a customer where the customer does not pay for the purchase in full. I'm having a hard time finding an equivalent in English ('shopping cart forgiveness' doesn't quite do the trick). Here's the phrase as it appears:

"Collusion employé de caisse/client visant à ne pas faire payer à ce dernier la totalité de ses achats (Caddie de complaisance)"

Thanks for any help you can provide.
Proposed translations (English)
1 +5 sweethearting cashiers
3 Theft by non-charging collusion
Change log

Nov 6, 2016 16:48: Stephanie Mitchel changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/10744">Stephanie Mitchel's</a> old entry - "caddie de complaisance"" to ""sweethearting cashiers""

Discussion

Daryo Oct 26, 2016:
@ Didier Fourcot the link is in the content of the said caddy/caddie which is referred to by association i.e. it refers to the shopping that gets to bypass the scanner; that way the check-out operator gives a "sweetheart deal" to the shopper;

that might sound unusual in French, but "shopping cart" is mostly used to refer in fact to the content of the shopping cart, not the shopping cart itself. Similar to "le panier de la ménagère".
Didier Fourcot Oct 26, 2016:
In case anybody wonders "caddie" is the French brand of shopping carts
http://www.caddie.fr/produits/?cat=Distribution_1
I can't see however how to link it with the sweeathearting technique
philgoddard Oct 26, 2016:
Nice to see you're making your usual polite and constructive contribution to the debate, Daryo.
I was merely pointing out that it's probably not necessary to restate the problem in different terms as the French does. Good translation is about knowing when to add text, and when to leave it out.
Daryo Oct 26, 2016:
basics of the methodology of translating texts "Why do you need to translate it?"

Just 'cos it's there? That should be a good enough reason??

Or is there some latest "improvement" to the methodology of translating that I'm not aware of?
philgoddard Oct 26, 2016:
Why do you need to translate it? The sentence makes just as much sense when you leave it out.

Proposed translations

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sweethearting cashiers

Sweethearting Detection - StopLift Checkout Vision Systems
stoplift.com/products/sweetheart-detection/
Refund/Return Fraud Detection ... StopLift's computer vision algorithms analyze how a cashier handles merchandise, detecting attempts to ... with your existing security cameras to sucessfully detect the 20-40% of your sweethearting cashiers.

Sweethearting" Not Romantic for Retailers | Point of Sale News | POS ...
https://pointofsale.com/.../Sweethearting-Not-Roman...
16 nov. 2013 - Valentine's Feature on "sweethearting" - a special kind of shoplifting at the POS. ... It occurs when cashiers pretend to scan merchandise but ... during each and every transaction to immediately identify fraud at the checkout.

A Way to Stop Sweethearting? - Genetec
https://www.genetec.com/.../POS-and-Video-Integrat...
“Sweethearting” ScamS. One of the most common forms of fraud involving employees is. “sweethearting,” in which the cashier passes items without scanning ...

Internal Fraud in a Retail Environment - International Foundation for ...
www.ifpo.org/.../internal-fraud-in-a-retail-environm...
Internal Retail Fraud [IRF] usually involves a cash register transaction. ... and not the cashier practically eliminates the problem of refund fraud caused by the ... Sweethearting occurs when an employee rings in a sale at a lower amount than ...

5 top tactics in retail theft today | CSO Online
www.csoonline.com/article/592374
30 abr. 2010 - Also see retail fraud -- investigative tactics and strategies for practical tests of ... Self-checkout is relatively new; sweethearting is as old as retail itself, ... A common way for a cashier to make lots of money with this trick is to put ...

Are you vulnerable to sweethearting? – Tensator Group
www.tensatorgroup.com/are-you-vulnerable-to-swee... -
It's named sweethearting because it most often occurs between a cashier and his or ... as so many large retailers use closed-circuit cameras to detect such fraud.

Analytics at the till: A loss-prevention use case | SAS
www.sas.com/en_ca/.../analytics-at-the-till.html
Cashier fraud and “sweethearting”—collusion between cashier and customer—is responsible for significant shrinkage in retail. Identifying at-risk staff before it ...
Peer comment(s):
agree Daryo : or just simply "sweethearting"
25 mins
thanks
agree philgoddard : If you had to find a term, for example if it's mentioned again later in the text, this would be a good choice.
1 hr
thanks
agree B D Finch
2 hrs
thanks
agree James A. Walsh
18 hrs
thanks
agree Alison MacG : Ce phénomène s’appelle le « sweethearting » (que l’on peut traduire par « complaisance »).http://www.sudinfo.be/1231379/article/2015-03-08/un-commerce...
1 day 54 mins
merci
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks Andres!"
43 mins

Theft by non-charging collusion

I gather it's not specific as to whether the cashier or the customer would be assumed as more the origin of the idea to do it.

The answer probably works, but maybe there's a better idea.
Peer comment(s):
neutral Daryo : the ST talks of "fraud" not "theft"
27 mins
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