"Mungo "two sheds" Toadfoot" wrote in message
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Mary Fisher wrote:

I don't understand why they need labels anyway, did we all get
confused before we hd them? No.

But I really don't think many people can eat them, surely ...


They're used so that the apples can be easily identified at the checkout -
they all have a four digit number on them which is typed into the till and
the computer knows what you're buying, or more precisely, what the shop is
selling.

I think I knew that - but a way round that, if the check-out can't identify
them, would be to have peel off stickers on a coil near the apples and stuck
to a bag in which the customer puts the apples.

Mary

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