TFM® > wrote:

> "Jean B." > wrote in message
> ...
>> Nancy Young wrote:
>>> For a time my supermarket had calculators mounted on the handle of the
>>> shopping cart. I didn't use them much
>>> at all, and after a time they just disappeared.
>>>
>>> nancy
>>
>> Wow! I have never seen that.
>
> They were quite popular 5 or 6 years ago. Then the moronic patrons either
> stole them or jammed up the buttons with boogers.
> Never underestimate the stupidity of the populace.

They probably got all sorts of complaints at the register by people
that can't use calculators that the total didn't match their
calculator total.

-sw (sock puppet)