At supermarkets in my country they have a system where they will semi-randomly check what you have in your bags the moment before you’d pay.

There’s random things that make it more likely like buying meat but there’s definitely a random element to it.

What i have noticed, however is that at times of financial strife (or just before them), the regularity of me getting checked can go through the roof (25% baseline chance up to 70-80% at peak).

And so I’m beginning to see these signs as a recession indicator. Especially as it’s a massive supermarket chain with access to a lot of customer and market data.

Probably someone smarter than me could use this to make money.