In the last week both Jo and I have been significantly undercharged in shops. I bought a book in Smiths that should have been £12.99 which rang up as 1p and Jo bought a roll of material from an un-named housewares store that scanned as 90p (the cost of 1m) as oppose to the £35.10 it should have been for the 36m on the roll. I didn’t feel at all guilty for my good-fortune however Jo did. The only reason she didn’t take it back was because she thought that there was 16m on the roll and she had been prepared to pay for that. When she realised this evening that there was actually 36m she felt terrible about it.

Anywhoo, that’s a minor digression as this wasn’t intentionally a moral debate. My point was in my case I was buying several items and paying by card this means all the cashier needs to do is scan the items, swipe my card and check my signature. There is no need for them to ever look at the amount. In Jo’s case she paid in cash, she was buying two items, a desk and the material. The cashier scanned the items, took the money, the till told her how much change to give and we left. Still it seems the cashier never registers (unintentional pun) the actual amount. I wonder how much money companies loose per year from reliance on fancy tills?

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