ARWadsworth
wibbled on Monday 26 October 2009 18:19

Has anyone got any idea how these Devil's scrotums work?

In theory you scan the item and place it on the scales.

The scales reject the item. You try again. The ******* thing then allows 4
items through before rejecting the 5th item and freezes up. And never try
to buy dowel using one unless you want large dowel and intend to shove it
up the managers arse when the machine goes wrong.

My local's got these recently.

Yep - buying a pack of grommets buggers the whole system up. The answer is
to wait for it to whine, then lean heavily on the scales - it doesn't seem
to care that a pack of grommets weighs in at 20kg for 5 seconds. Have to do
it twice sometimes.

Unlike Tescos' it doesn't seem to whine when the weight is removed again.

Perhaps the elegant solution is to process the heavy item first, then keep
throwing that on...

Still beats queuing behind the old bloke with 27 paving slabs and the five
items without a barcode...



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Tim Watts

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