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Originally Posted by tophcfa
And then there is stuff like fresh fruit and veggies where you are charged by the weight of your purchase. Or how about a place like Lowel’s where you can buy individual nuts and bolts that don’t have a bar code? What really gets me is they claim self checkout helps with their labor costs, but they have workers lurking around the self checkout area to help customers. Keep the full service registers open!
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Those nuts and bolts may not have a bar code but they DO have a numerical code incised on the piece itself. If the employee puts the items in a bag, he writes the code on the bag. When you enter the code at checkout it asks you how many pieces and the price pops up.