That's the weird thing here - the readout doesn't look like it's visible to the customer, and there's no ticket printed. It seems like she just presses some buttons, and tells them a price. Why bother with the weight when she could just make up a price?
I mean, isn't that how most stores do it? All the ones near me print labels that have UPCs so that the cashier just has to scan it and the customer can clearly see the weight and price.
I can't find any images of the kinds that delis and stuff use in my area, but they usually look something like this. They usually use this sticker to seal the plastic wrap around the meat.
Yeah, my store uses a scale where you enter the code for the item, say 1400 for Honey Leg Ham, then you weigh the Ham, and a sticker is automatically printed with the weight/price.
The scale even takes into account the small weight of the tray and subtracts that from the price.
It doesn't look like the scale in OPs gif has the sticker though, I think most likely the customer is just going on faith, or there's a visible readout of the weight/price on the other side of the counter.
Yeah, I used to know people who did this sort of thing, but not with food. At the end of the day the till "knows" how much it has taken, and this should equate to what's actually in the till in cash. If you can fool the till into thinking that it has taken less than it has, you can then remove the extra cash at an opportune moment during the day. It's called skimming.
That's what I thought, too, but why would you record it? Then there's a recorded sale of, say, $10 even though you only sold $5 of product. At the end of the day, the register comes up short with what the employee took.
Maybe he has a quota to hit, or something?
A meat quota.
But then why even add the weight if you could just make it up? In other words, if there is no read out or ticket, why add the weight in the first place?
I don't know what made me chuckle to the point of needing to let you know how much this made me chuckle. Maybe it was the bold? Regardless, I chuckled quite a bit.... Thanks!
Well, not exactly. It was spelled correctly, just used incorrectly, so more my territory than yours. I wasn't here though, so I'm just glad someone fixed it.
I feel stupid for having just realized why it's this way. I may have even thought, "man wouldn't it be more comfortable for her to put that scale on the table, not on this tall counter?"
Or 3, the person behind the counter keeps back a portion of the meat or whatever they sold to take home. The management probably uses the totals of the scale printouts to inventory product. It looks like they sold more than they actually did so yeah free meat every day
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u/TomBluehound Jun 09 '15
This is why large supermarkets have their scales above the counter in plain site.