That's not a happy number.

[Golden Phoenix]

An old story from my days as a checkout girl, no suck so i put it here, move if needed ^_^

I was ringing out this regular customer and she'd picked up her usual family-size bag of frozen prawns, i scanned them as normal then glanced at the screen, then did a double take.

The prawns had rung up at £43,500 oO wtf?

Actual price £4.35, someone in pricing had royally messed up the system. The customer saw the funny side of it and started joking about tkaing out a loan to have dinner.

The prawns were pulled from sale and the error fixed in under an hour. Nearly gave me a heart attack though.

[JPD]

I used to work at an outlet store. There were a handful of items that would occasional mis-scan to 999.99.

Now I work at a grocery store. I had one person buying a roast, and the scanner read the barcode wrong, and added an extra hundred dollars to the price.

Also, until it was fixed a couple of weeks ago, we had a loaf of bread that had two bar codes. The one that was on the plastic package, and the one the bakeshop stuck on the loaf. The one on the package would wring up for a lot more then the price of the bread, and it was enough to have to have a supervisor come over and approve the void.

[SG15Z]

lol that happened last month. Something that was suppose to be $10 wrung up over $100. And no one noticed till after the transaction was completed. The person in charge of the department the product was in was all when I informed her of the error.

ETA:

BTW Golden Pheonix, I love the avatar!!

[Golden Phoenix]

Thank you ^_^

I't s alittle reminder that as far as mamangment are concerned i may as well be a zombie, but i'm still cute ^_^

[Rapscallion]

Actual price £4.35, someone in pricing had royally messed up the system. The customer saw the funny side of it and started joking about tkaing out a loan to have dinner.

"The attractive female escort is paid for, the meal's on HP!"

Rapscallion

[cattaur]

An old story from my days as a checkout girl, no suck so i put it here, move if needed ^_^

I was ringing out this regular customer and she'd picked up her usual family-size bag of frozen prawns, i scanned them as normal then glanced at the screen, then did a double take.

The prawns had rung up at £43,500 oO wtf?

Actual price £4.35, someone in pricing had royally messed up the system. The customer saw the funny side of it and started joking about tkaing out a loan to have dinner.

The prawns were pulled from sale and the error fixed in under an hour. Nearly gave me a heart attack though.

(was that a sale price or the regular retail?)
Obviously, whoever entered it into system missed the decimal.

I don't remember specifics, but when I was working store support, a price change slipped through the system with a similar problem. Also had one going the other way also... $35.49 ringing up for $.35.
We sent out email to all stores when we learned about it, telling them to manually change it in their system, as we couldn't get a batch processed to the stores for several hours.
(What I really loved was hearing from a store about a week later, saying that product X is scanning $43,500. Dialed in to their system, and saw that they had JUST applied their batches, and applied them out of order.... »headdesk«)