ARWadsworth wrote
Rod Speed wrote
Nightjar wrote
Tim Streater wrote

Some 40 years ago I was buying as it might be apples in a
greengrocer's in Naples. Change was 400 lire, and he showed me
four 100 lire coins in his hand. Turns his hand over to drop the
coins in my palm, put puts his thumb over one of the coins.
Result: 300 lire in my hand.

Greengrocers everywhere seem to be prone to short changing and other
tricks.

Mine actually makes it completely trivial to rip them off.

They now have self checkouts and with the loose fruit and veg,
you have to tell the system what it is. So there is nothing to stop
you telling it that it's the cheapest say potatoes when you have
actually got the most expensive etc.

And it wouldn't be hard to plead ignorance if the droid catches you
either.

There is not a jury in the world that would convict you with that plea.

We don’t have jurys for that sort of crime here.

Some of the magistrates would have your guts for
garters, but it'd never make it to a magistrate either.