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Subject: Re: An idea to help avoid pricing errors in supermarkets Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:16:31 GMT

In message <5rhhu3pdq5mlul4ppm7s30scujj0cr82mi@4ax.com>, MM
writes
>Anyone who has bought vegetables or fruit at a major supermarket will
>have noticed the scales provided. I'm not talking about those stores
>that invite customers to print off and apply barcode labels to their
>veg, but where a scales is provided so that customers can tell how
>much in weight they are buying.
>
>If, like the scales in the veg & fruit, there was a barcode scanner in
>every ordinary shopping aisle, then shoppers could always check the
>price of items if there was any doubt, or if the price was missing, as
>is often the case today.
>
>Barcode scanners are dirt cheap, by the way.
>
>MM

My local Tesco has them in several isles and this allows you to check
prices of items as you shop, if you so wish.

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Mike_B