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  • N Nish Nishant

    A customer at the unnamed branch raised the alarm after she was charged almost £2 for a pepper that should have cost 79 pence, the Daily Mail reports.

    Ah, that explains it.

    Regards, Nish


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    BillW33
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    Yes, male customers would have been too busy staring at the cashier’s “attributes” to notice their receipt. :laugh:

    Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.

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    • A AspDotNetDev

      With what I tend to look at, I think I would have caught that mistake right away. :-O

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      Smithers Jones
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      aspdotnetdev wrote:

      With what I tend to look at, I think I would have caught that mistake right away.

      Me too. But probably I wouldn't have complained but bought some more stuff. :)

      "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." (DNA)

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      • A AspDotNetDev

        With what I tend to look at, I think I would have caught that mistake right away. :-O

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        Joe Simes
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        And you'd gladly pay £2 for a pepper that should have cost 79 pence for the peek! :-D

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        • E Ennis Ray Lynch Jr

          Maybe they should just tare the scale with the melons.

          Need custom software developed? I do custom programming based primarily on MS tools with an emphasis on C# development and consulting. I also do Android Programming as I find it a refreshing break from the MS. "And they, since they Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs" -- Robert Frost

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          Roger Wright
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          Perhaps if they'd let her work topless, the offending appendages would simply rest on her knees, safely out of harm's way, far from the scale.

          Will Rogers never met me.

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            A bit of a boob[^]

            Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

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            BRShroyer
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            Pepper: £0.79 Cashier's breasts on the scale: £1.31 Taking them home because you paid for them: Priceless

            Brad Deja Moo - When you feel like you've heard the same bull before.

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              A bit of a boob[^]

              Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

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              jeron1
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              "The overweighing was quickly traced to the cashier's chesticles" Not very often I see that word used!

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              • L Lost User

                A bit of a boob[^]

                Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

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                Mark_Wallace
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                See? If checkout staff were topless, such mistakes would be notice immediately! But no-one signed my petition!

                I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                  See? If checkout staff were topless, such mistakes would be notice immediately! But no-one signed my petition!

                  I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                  Lost User
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                  Ewww - moobs.

                  Join the cool kids - Come fold with us[^]

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                  • L Lost User

                    Ewww - moobs.

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                    Lost User
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                    I feel you maY be the first not to assume that the assistant was a lass.

                    Hassan

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                    • R Richard A Dalton

                      "Rhubarb sticks are quite long and hang off the end of the scale so they were actually underweighing. Now we break them in two before putting them on the scales." Methinks someone doesn't fully grasp how gravity works. Unless there's something near the scales that the protruding Rhubarb was clinging on to this doesn't make a lot of sense. I can see the headlines now. "Rhubarb in boob grabbing shocker". -Richard

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                      kinar
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                      Not necessarily...have you ever stepped on a bathroom scale (or the type of scale used for weighing people in a doctor's office)? Assuming you have, now lean to the far right/left/front/back and notice how the weight changes slightly (even after it settles from the movement)... most scales are innaccurate unless the object being weighed are centered and not moving. I participaged in sports for nearly ~15 years being weighed at least once a week...there are a LOT of ways to cheat a scale.

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                        I feel you maY be the first not to assume that the assistant was a lass.

                        Hassan

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                        You get male assistants as well.

                        Join the cool kids - Come fold with us[^]

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                          A bit of a boob[^]

                          Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

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                          Ravi Sant
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                          the seller cannot deny the good times ;P

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                            You get male assistants as well.

                            Join the cool kids - Come fold with us[^]

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                            Mark_Wallace
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                            Trollslayer wrote:

                            You get male assistants as well.

                            OK, so let's take a wild guess at which checkout queue I won't be standing in...

                            I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                            • B BillW33

                              Yes, I have seen many stores where the scale is built into and level with the counter. The scale is only about 5 inches square, which works well for small items, but wouldn't work properly for larger items.

                              Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.

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                              Richard A Dalton
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                              CIDev wrote:

                              Yes, I have seen many stores where the scale is built into and level with the counter. The scale is only about 5 inches square, which works well for small items, but wouldn't work properly for larger items.

                              Hmmm. I had no idea that there was such a Rhubarb-Scales Impedance Mismatch. As the man said on leaving the chiropractor...."I stand corrected." And their solution is to break the Rhubarb in half? What happens when the customer says.. "I'm not paying full price for that...it's broken"? Perhaps they should arrange for well endowed female cashier's to process Rhubarb sales....to cancel things out. -Richard

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