On Sun, 2006-12-10 at 00:28 -0800, Jason wrote:
> That less than a second figure is meaningless.  People aren't going to just 
> blindly pay the total shown without checking down the list to make sure 
> there's no extra items because the scanner picked up a stray tag.  

You're kidding, right? MOST people never even look at receipts, they
just pay whatever the cashier says to pay.

> Also, 
> don't you watch the prices as the cashier scans your items to make sure 
> everything is right?  

Yes, I do, but observing most of my fellow shoppers, they don't. They
spend their time putting the items they JUST took out of their carts
back into their carts, and only stop when the cashier says "please pay
this amount".

Just my observations. TTYL

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