Even if it was a one-time glitch that was resolved in-store, it implies that the prices shown on-screen aren’t necessarily the same prices used internally to compute the total.

That could merit a heads-up post for people to double-check their totals, though not the suggestion of anything more nefarious.

That's still a major software bug. What a POS.

Is this news?

It certainly doesn't belong in /technology, right?

But, what kind of software do they have that uses one price source for the unit pricing display and another source for calculating the total? It seems that it is destined to create more problems like this one.

Seems pretty straightforward and had a good resolution.

Well, except for when the Redditor went home and spread ~~lies~~ technically factual statements presented in a misleading manner and omitting key details with the apparent goal of damaging the reputation of the store despite being treated with kindness and fairness by the manager.

7news is like that for ya. Lots of petty drama news.

Ragebait had become the new tactic to generate engagement for a while now.

Hopefully people will soon catch on and become fed up with it because I am sure this tactic has been one of the biggest contributing factors in polarizing people against each other and making politics so toxic.

The news aggregator communities tend to post the clickbait titles verbatim because it's generally frowned upon to editorialize them. However a few users do put a proper heading or a short summary in the post body which I appreciate.

We have our share of drama llamas here as you know, but we also have pictures of !crows@lemmy.ml, !cat@lemmy.world, !superbowl@lemmy.world.

If you follow !toronto@lemmy.ca and !vancouver@lemmy.ca you will see my picture posts of various cityscapes.

Lastly, beehaw.org is a bit closed off from some instances but their server is a bit more chill outside of their politics community.

Only the US adds sales tax after the original price, everywhere else it's included in the price on the shelf.

Itemized prices should already include tax.

Total will also include tax.

But receipts will outline how much of the total was tax.

Source: am Australian

Doesn't Australia include the tax in the listed price of the item instead of adding it at the end?

Does Australia charge tax on groceries?

According to the article the mangos were on sale for a higher price than what showed up on the screen, it totaled them correct but there was a mistake with it saying .80 cents per mango. They gave them the mangos for free apparently and apologized. Same thing would have happened whether or not it was a self checkout or a person, the item was entered incorrectly into the system.

Always verify what you are buying.

There's 2 mangoes.