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The best is when you buy fruit all vegetables and it decides that the Apple that you are buying doesn’t weigh the right amount.

One time I bought the largest potato you’ve ever seen in your life and it decided that it was too big and therefore could not possibly be a potato and must instead be some high value item I was stealing, although nonetheless scanning. But the problem is the alternative is to talk to people.

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Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
scans one potato

Weighs as much as an entire bag of potatoes

“Thief! This guy’s over here tryna steal potatoes!”

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- echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  You pay by weight, so I don’t really understand what its problem was.
  
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  - sqgl@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Potatoes are cheap by weight. Machine saw a single item and didn’t believe it was a potato. Not that anything looks similar; it just flags it for staff to check.
    
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brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
-dictated on an iPhone/iPad/Mac?

:)

Also

alternative is to

Be in the top 5% of customers the cashier had that day! (A little reframing for the next time self checkout is down, understand still not ideal)

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