[Magdalen] I hate Wal-Mart

[Scott Knitter]

On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <ichthys89 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Lynn, who uses self check at 'my Kroger' often, and has noticed that it has
> become so fine tuned that people who 'cheat' are now being caught... yep...
> a lot of cheaters seem to use self check - subbing fruit/veggie codes that
> are cheap for the food they're buying that is more expensive.  When I first
> saw self weigh and self check in Scotland in '93 I thought that this would
> never make it in the US because people would find it hard to be honest.

I always assume it'd be hard to get away with cheating because of the
machine's scale that "knows" what each item should weigh and the
monitoring by the human person behind the little desk, but of course
that person is sometimes busy, gone, or distracted, and as you said,
the machine can't "know" if a wrong code is being used fraudulently.

Now here's a place without any bags at all...in Portlandia, of course:

http://youtu.be/d545PS_AkOw



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Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA