Co-op cashier's breasts overcharged for fruit and veg The Co-op in Jersey has launched an investigation into recent fruit and veg sales after it emerged that a customer had been overcharged by a sales assistant's breasts. A customer at the unnamed branch raised the alarm after she was charged almost £2 for a pepper that should have cost 79 pence, the Daily Mail reports. A …
...that is it now essential that we keep a very close eye on the checkout girl's mammalian protuberances in order to ensure no overcharging.
The story was posted at 14:47 so I reckon, a mere 17 minutes later, at least 17 people have already suggested it - that'll be me and 16 others.
This might be a fun time to let every repetition of a joke through. Then we can collate them at the end and one of you can put them in a graph showing their relative popularity.
I predict an early lead for "you don't get many of them to the pound" or derivations thereof.
....with till designs these days. Tesco (among others) used to have the scales at the side of the checkout operator, but that slowed things down, so now the scales are in front of the laser scanner and hence are easily leant on by mistake. Of course, you would think that the scales not reading zero under this condition would be noticed, but the scales readout is now cunningly hidden so that the customer often doesn't notice it. I like to check the scales show zero with nothing on them, but it's far more difficult to do that these days so many weighed items could be in error and I'd not be aware of it unless the difference made a huge increase in the price.
Nothing to do with increased supermarket profits then, oh no!
I once leant on the partition by the till behind me's scales and was asked to move. Even though I wasn't touching the scales they seemed to get very upset if there was anything within a couple of feet.
Maybe my arse is more of a threat to accurate weight measurements than this lady's breasts were....
The Internet seems to think the average weight of a pepper is between 100g and 200g so lets say 150g at 79p or about 1.9g per pence * 200p = 379.75g added. If I'm wrong all letters of complaint should be addressed to my GCSE maths teacher.
Of course the next question is how much do they weigh over all. I'm led to believe methods that don't involve sharp knives requires the body part in question to be submerged in water and the answer comes from weighing the displaced water.
If the scales are anything like the ones at the co-op down our way the 'scales' are part of the counter and have an edge round them which would support the rhubarb, thus reducing the pressure on the scales.
Like you though, I did a double take when I first read it.
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"The assistant concerned was "mortified" by the incident, he said, and is currently receiving support from the Co-op's HR department."
I thought for a moment that "he" here referred to "the assistant concerned". That would indeed be mortifying -- mega-massive-man-melons...!
...that the posters who "corrected" the manager about weighing rhubarb have all of their meals out of cardboard boxes delivered to their caves and haven't actually stepped foot in a grocery checkout line in the last five years, or so? Otherwise they might have noticed that these days the scale is built flush with the counter to minimize cashier motion/save time/squeeze that extra penny onto the store's bottom line. This set-up, of course, means that overlong rhubarbs ARE, in fact, resting part of their weight on the counter.
there was a bit of a rhubarb over the pepper, caused by melons [ and possibly jealousy ] , but solved by the store putting their best foot forward and uplifting the [ certainly non-offending ] rounded body parts in question?
the only unsorted items appear to be :
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1:playmobil.
2:pictures and diagrams if appropriate [ pg.3].
3:the attempt to remove the mental picture of a pre-operative simona halep wearing a skimpy tesco-ish uniform from popping into our heads for the rest of the day.
4:having several pints to discuss the relative merits of weights and measures and how they apply to common interests.
5:the possible banning of most of us by the moderatrix for life after having risen to the challenge, which is surely a trap.
6: trollkin, because this post really is across the yellow line...
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Strangely, something along these lines but a little more tech-y happened to me a little while back. Looking at my grocery receipt a red capsicum had cost AU$7.00. I returned and queried this and discovered that the ePos scanner had one of its feet on the ( flush-mounted ) scale adding quite a few grammes to anything weighed. Management were most thankful, as Weights and Measures are dynamite here in the antipodes.
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