I heard this one lately.
I saw a sign at a check out that read NO CHECKS ACCEPTED, I casually said next thing you know there will be one saying NO CASH ACCEPTED, the checker said there were already places that if your bill came to $18.10 and you gave them a twenty dollar bill then they would charge you a full $19.00 for the item since they didn't keep any change.

How does one count BOGO items, buy two get one or 6 limes for a dollar?

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Originally posted by PHPaul:

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Originally posted by V-Tail:

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Originally posted by PHPaul:
Curious: How does one count items?

Bread, milk, yogurt. 3 Items, right?

One loaf of bread, 1 quart of milk, a dozen individual servings of yogurt. 3 items or 14?

Carton of eggs = 12 items. No fast lane for you.

Good God! No WONDER I got such dirty looks checking out with a bag of Reeses Pieces!

Heyyyyy...was that bread one loaf or sliced? That's a lot of items, right there!

Busted!

The line in Cambridge checkouts when miscreants went astray into the express lines went like this - pointing at the sign, the cashiers would say 'Are you from MIT and can't read, or from Harvard and can't count?"

When I was a checker, I'd get pissed while working the express lane watching someone unloading more than the limit. But the reality was that it would always be faster for me to ring the person up and get them out with a mild admonishment at the end than force them to repack all their stuff in the cart and move it.

I was in a regular checkout line at the grocery store on a Friday evening that was packed. There were several people in each line.

A guy in front of me was checking out and handed the checker a coupon. The coupon was for $10.00 off of $50.00 or more. His total came to around $46.00. He argued with the checker that it was close enough. The checker kept telling him he couldn't override the computer.

The guy then says he will go find something to reach $50.00. As he brushes past me I said, "Really?". He took two or three minutes to find an item to put him over the limit.

On the way back through the line, he bumped me hard. I just smiled at him, remembering the 1911 on my hip. He used his outside voice to finish checking out. Too bad it is against the law to kill people.

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Originally posted by LimaCharlie:
Too bad it is against the law to kill people.

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Originally posted by PHPaul:
Curious: How does one count items?

Bread, milk, yogurt. 3 Items, right?

One loaf of bread, 1 quart of milk, a dozen individual servings of yogurt. 3 items or 14?

Hah, but I only had 2 items. My cash cart and my EBT cart!

I wouldn't be irritated by someone with 12 items, but someone with 20 or 25 would hear some grumbling.

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Originally posted by jhe888:
I wouldn't be irritated by someone with 12 items, but someone with 20 or 25 would hear some grumbling.

I only had eight. I asked the cashier if I had to go back and get two more items.

In Walmart yesterday, I'm in line with about $20 of goods. Woman in front of me decides to pay with check.....

She peers at total price on screen.

Digs into her purse for check book.

Digs into her purse for pen.

Opens check book. Book upside down. turns Book right side up.

Begins to write on check. Pen dry, won't write.

Digs into purse for another pen.

Opens check book and writes check. Peers at total charge and fills in check.

Hands check to Clerk who says: "Wrong date on check".

Woman begins to dig in purse for check book.

I said:"Fuck this shit". Grabbed my stuff and moved to another line. Paid with CC and quickly moved on.

Woman was still trying to pay with check as I was leaving.

Take some solace that they captured the quad of bank robbers last Thursday. Cops were tipped and waiting. Thugs find bank doors locked, voila, officers announce party is over. They even caught Coolio!

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Originally posted by Jager:
Take some solace that they captured the quad of bank robbers last Thursday. Cops were tipped and waiting. Thugs find bank doors locked, voila, officers announce party is over. They even caught Coolio!

I think I'm missing something here. I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.

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Originally posted by V-Tail:

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Originally posted by jhe888:
I wouldn't be irritated by someone with 12 items, but someone with 20 or 25 would hear some grumbling.

I only had eight. I asked the cashier if I had to go back and get two more items.

Maff, again... ruining your life.

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Originally posted by sigmonkey:

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Originally posted by V-Tail:

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Originally posted by jhe888:
I wouldn't be irritated by someone with 12 items, but someone with 20 or 25 would hear some grumbling.

I only had eight. I asked the cashier if I had to go back and get two more items.

Maff, again... ruining your life.

Yup. Can't get away from it, like most people can.

Wait untill you get the old lady with 150+ unsorted and out of date coupons in her purse for about 60 dollars worth of stuff. I kid you not it happened to me two times within a year at a safeway years ago. I have not been to safeway since. The 2nd time I left the stuff there and walked out.

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Originally posted by PHPaul:
Curious: How does one count items?

Bread, milk, yogurt. 3 Items, right?

One loaf of bread, 1 quart of milk, a dozen individual servings of yogurt. 3 items or 14?

Easy. If the yogurts were priced by the individual container, then 14 items. If they were on special @ 12 for $1.00, then 3 items.
 

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Originally posted by PHPaul:
Curious: How does one count items?

Bread, milk, yogurt. 3 Items, right?

One loaf of bread, 1 quart of milk, a dozen individual servings of yogurt. 3 items or 14?

Is the bread sliced? If not, the loaf is only one item.