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Supermarket responds after Reddit user’s warning about self-checkout overcharge — ‘Was annoyed that the total amount due on my supermarket purchase did not equate to the individual items I purchased.’ (7news.com.au)
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Supermarket responds after Reddit user’s warning about self-checkout overcharge — ‘Was annoyed that the total amount due on my supermarket purchase did not equate to the individual items I purchased.’::‘Was annoyed that the amount due on my Woolies purchase did not equate to the individual items I purchased.’

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[–] mwguy@infosec.pub -3 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Did they call someone over when they saw the discrepancy? Because, you know, mistakes happen.

Not in software. The software is doing exactly what it was programmed to do.

[–] Schmidtster@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 10 months ago (5 children)

So no software has ever glitched before and output a wrong result? What world do you live in?

[–] mwguy@infosec.pub 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

If there're two different items calculations one "real" one and "display" that's an intentional choice made because they know there can be discrepancies.

[–] Schmidtster@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yep rounding errors occur, manual changes need to be inputted sometimes, display errors, sales mistakes. Nothing weird about that. In fact their policy probably has specific points to deal with discrepancies between list, scanned and total prices.

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