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Old 01-11-2013, 09:26 PM
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This is the strangest thing I've experienced in a long time. I went to Aldi's this morning and bought 10 items (all fruit and vegetables of course). I got in line to check out and put all the items on the conveyor belt. The clerk began to ring up the items. I walked around to her left side so I could see the items as they were being rung up. At that point she had only rung up about 1/2 of the items and she was talking to a couple of women who were in line in back of me. They were laughing but I wasn't paying attention to what the conversation was about. Suddenly, the clerk calls out, in a loud voice, $12.57 and I think one woman asked how she knew. And she answered something....not sure what it was. But at that time I didn't think the $12.57 applied to me.

Okay, so she then continued checking out my groceries. When she finished, I waited for the total to appear but it didn't. She noticed me waiting for a total so she hit a key on the register and up came the total of $12.57 .

In order for her to have figured it out in her head before the register had calculated it, she would have had to 1) know the price of every item 2) be able to add it all up in her head while talking and laughing with other customers and 3) calculate the price of a bunch of bananas based on the weight that was marked on the wrapper.

When I asked her how she knew the total price before everything was rung up, she said, "I don't know, I guess I'm just crazy".

How did she do it?
She might well have been guessing the prices.

I don't like it one bit when a server in a restaurant, serving a table of 3-8 people, will NOT use pencil and paper and insists on looking like some kind of genius by remembering it all and then going back to order it all into the computer.....and then there are mistakes and omissions. I'm not impressed by people who won't use pencil and paper and claim to remember everything when they really don't.

People who make no mistakes according to themselves are not trustworthy IMHO.

Do you have your register tape/receipt?