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Nancy Young[_1_] Nancy Young[_1_] is offline
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Default Check bottom of cart!


"biig" > wrote

>> Two questions come up, why does it only rarely notice I
>> have stuff down there and how the heck can it tell? With all
>> the legs and carts going by, a detector would be going off all
>> the time.
>>
>> Perhaps the eye in the sky is spying on the customers?


> There must be sensors on the product. Our Sobeys cashiers have to
> pass meat packages over a de-activator so we don't set off alarms when
> we leave the store.


Huh, interesting. It's just odd to me that it almost never happens.
I could see that, but when I tell them, they don't make me drag
them up and put them on the belt.

> Also, I was leaving the parking lot of a new No
> Frills store the other day and there was a sign that said their shopping
> carts lock if you try to take them from the perimeter of the parking
> lot.....


That's a good idea, annoying that people steal them, for any number
of reasons.

nancy