ARWadsworth wrote:
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.

Not a bad setup.

No tills open and 3 staff watching the 4 self checkout machines. Make
that two staff available when one of them went to find someone that
could allow me to buy my items.

All I need is the correct weight of a nice drill that exactly matches a
large bag of nails, swap the barcode over and I will be even with the
*******s.

Adam

I hate the damn things with a vengeance that is massively over the top
considering what they actually do/are like.

But there is one fundamental issue that will start to crop up with
regularity. That is, what happens when a customer makes a mistake? And
of course, most particularly a mistake that could be interpreted as
trying to gain dishonestly?

Using the conventional tills, mistakes are largely down to the till
operator and the store.

But I confidently predict more and more occasions on which a customer is
accused of some form of theft or dishonesty due to simple careless or
inadvertence or the machine not working properly or something else
basically not criminal. And quite possibly not just accused but actually
prosecuted.

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Rod