Moneymaker

~ Clarissa

I found a way to trick the self-checkout register at our grocery store into charging between 2 and 5 cents for any amount of any type of produce.

Obviously, I’m not going to use it and I alerted the staff. Then I alerted them again a week later. They look unwilling to do anything, and I’m wondering if everybody hates me for spoiling a good little moneymaker.

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6 thoughts on “Moneymaker”

  1. Generally retail staff can’t do much about stuff like this except alert people who can fix it. And the people who can fix it never get around to it. I speak from personal experience working in retail.

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  2. They’d probably rather you kept quiet about it. Think about all the machines they’d need to fix. It probably costs them less to just have a few people get free groceries than to fix the whole thing.

    You’d be surprised how much inertia and apathy there is in a lot of industries.

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    1. I was at the grocery store with the new Ukrainian instructor who arrived yesterday. I’d talked her ear off about the inflation, and then we go to the store and she says, very calmly, “The prices don’t seem that bad” when the register showed us that 3 lbs of peaches cost 2 cents.

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  3. Found a very interesting article – “Blueprint, I Shrunk the Kids: The Top Issues and Concerns For Young Voters In 2024” :

    Contrary to conventional wisdom and current narratives, roughly equal shares of young voters identify as moderate (31​​%), liberal (36%), or conservative (33%). 

    The most frequently prioritized issues by young voters are inflation (chosen 73% of the time), healthcare (71%), jobs and the economy (70%), government spending and the federal deficit (63%), corruption (63%), and Social Security and Medicare (62%).

    The lowest priority issues are China (27%), college (37%), LGBTQ issues (38%), student loans (38%), and Ukraine (39%). Israel-Palestine stands in the middle of the pack, at 52%.

    On the Economy, Young Voters Want Lower Prices and Trust Trump More to Make It Happen

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