Hum -
I do that all the time - Bought 6" 3/4" bolts - nuts and two washer types screwed together.
Tin Barn. Counter - and had all part numbers and prices on a paper.
The lady went down the bolt and coast accounted each out. My prices and numbers
were a waste of time.

I think the first issue was the lady. The second was the poor moral person
that let here make the mistake. Some checkers do that for people anyway -
that is one of the things that managers look for - presents to dad - or to
friends... ring up this and not that.


Martin Eastburn
@ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net
NRA LOH, NRA Life
NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder



Harold and Susan Vordos wrote:
Today I was in Home Depot, standing in line to pay for a couple rolls of
hardware cloth. In front of me was a gentleman, and I use that term
loosely, that had placed on the counter six one inch electrical PVC ells,
along with six couplings, each of which was attached to the ells. The
ells had their UPC stamped on them, but the connectors had a stick-on label.
To a woman clerk, that may or may not be wise to how such things look and
are used, it was very easy for the items to be scanned by the label only,
considering the UPC on the ells blended well with the other data printed
thereon.

That's what happened. The buyer paid with a credit card, the total coming
to under $3. It was obvious to me that he had placed the connectors on the
ells intentionally, likely thinking they would get scanned just as they did.
I did more than nothing, but I'm interested in hearing what others might
think would have been a good course of action to take. When I've heard
various opinions, I'll describe what I did, and why I did it.

Comments?

Harold



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