sorry, mistyping, bad = bag of course :-)

On 12/11/06, Tamas Rudnai <tamas.rudnai@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Having to press two buttons at the same time which are a bit away so that
> both hands needed for pressing them... but you can still apply tricks like
> two people work together. Maybe to continue measuring until weight settles
> so that nobody could support exact amount of energy for more than couple of
> millisecs? So if weight is there for at least 10 secs then that is the exact
> measurements. But you cant avoid to leave the bad open and put one more
> apple into it :-)
>
> Tamas
>
> On 12/11/06, Peter Bindels <dascandy@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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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