"MM" wrote in message
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> 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.
>
>
My supermarket (Waitrose) makes them available to (almost) anyone who wants
one. You scan everything you buy, scan a special code at the end of your
shop and pay the asked for price in a self serve machine.
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