On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 19:46:38 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

> On 2016-01-03 7:38 PM, sf wrote:
>
> >> We should be able to give them a whack in the back of the head to
> >> smarten them up, or at least to express our displeasure at the stupidity
> >> that wastes the time of the people behind them.
> >>
> > In the olden days, you could watch the cash register as entries were
> > made and catch mistakes. Not so anymore, but you can't teach an old
> > dog new tricks.
> >
>
>
> Are you serious? In the old days cashiers rang things up by hand and
> they were usually so fast that you really had to keep an eye on the
> register to catch mistakes. Now they have a fair sized screen that
> shows the item, weight and cost per unit if applicable, and the price,
> and there is room on the screen for about a dozen items, so it is much
> easier to catch mistakes.

Maybe you couldn't keep up, but I could and if they entered the sale
price I could remember if it was correct or not. I could keep track
of it even after scanners - before they started ringing up the full
price and subtracting at the end to give us a mysterious total.

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sf