On Tue, 09 May 2006 22:34:50 -0400, Roy Smith wrote:

Went to the local HD yesterday to pick up a bunch of sandpaper and a few
5/16" and 3/8" bolts I needed. Found what I wanted and decided to speed
things up by going to the self-checkout line. Bad move.

The sandpaper scanned fine, but I was at a loss how to deal with the bolts.
4 @ $0.13 and 4 @ $.14, IIRC. No bar code, no obvious way to enter them
into the system. I futzed around a bit while several sales droid types
hung out and observed the chaos.

Eventually, I found a screen that said something like "press here to summon
help", which I did. Still no assistance from the droids was forthcomming.
Finally, in desperation, I just dropped the bolts into my bag, which
immediately generated a message that the weight of my bag didn't match what
I had scanned, and that I should remove the extra items from the bag.
Still no assistance-droids.

Some more futzing, and the machine prompted me to swipe my credit card. A
droid came over, helpfully showed me how to swipe it, and watched me
complete the transaction.

Sigh. I walked out the door with my $11 or so worth of paid-for sandpaper,
plus (by my calculations), $1.08 worth of hex-head bolts, shamelessly
absconded with. What's a customer to do?


The lags have a code ---usually 3 letters like....AAG....on the head.
That code needs to be entered into the system X the count.

If I were you I would just go back and pay. I once bought a bunch of
pipes and fittings. When I got home I realized that I had screwed one
piece to another and left it that way at checkout. The lady just
scanned one item. The next time I went back I just brought the item
with me and told the the story and paid for it.
If you don't pay for it you're a thief. If I'm going to be a thief it
should be BIG money..not some lags, etc