On 11/12/06, Tony Smith <ajsmith@rivernet.com.au> wrote:
> When I get my carrots bagged, the next available tag is stuck on it (&
> printed with carrots, $, kg).  The POS system now knows tag #1 is active and
> that it's 12kg of carrots, worth $25.  The checkout picks up the tag, and
> adds $25 to your bill (& print carrots on the receipt).  The tag is marked
> as inactive in the system to reduce double counting, mixups from other
> stores etc.
>
> Yep, that'll work.
>
> Some supermarkets do have staff in the fruit & veg section to do this.  Not
> many in Australia though, they expect the checkout staff to do that.  It's
> not too hard to imagine it happening again.

The stores in the Netherlands have reversed that system to the
supermarket staff checking your vegetable weights, since people would
hold the vegetables slightly off the scale to reduce its weight (and
thus its price). A cashier doesn't notice the difference between 1 kg
and 0.9 kg. How would you avoid that?
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