What you are talking about is theft. Either intentionally or unintentionally. In a previous life I owned several shops trading within a market environment. Our electronic scales were checked daily, before trading, and at regular intervals throughout. We even had mechanical scales as back up in case of power failure. These were also checked.
Trading Standards would visit, unannounced, every few months. Check our scales, labelling, weight of packaged goods etc to ensure we were giving our customers what they were paying for.
If anybody charged me for goods which were under weight then I would contact TS without a seconds hesitation.
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