Co-op cashier's breasts overcharged for fruit and veg The Co-op in Jersey has launched an investigation into recent fruit and veg sales after it emerged that a customer had been overcharged by a sales assistant's breasts. A customer at the unnamed branch raised the alarm after she was charged almost £2 for a pepper that should have cost 79 pence, the Daily Mail reports. A …
If the scales are anything like the ones at the co-op down our way the 'scales' are part of the counter and have an edge round them which would support the rhubarb, thus reducing the pressure on the scales.
Like you though, I did a double take when I first read it.
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"The assistant concerned was "mortified" by the incident, he said, and is currently receiving support from the Co-op's HR department."
I thought for a moment that "he" here referred to "the assistant concerned". That would indeed be mortifying -- mega-massive-man-melons...!
...that the posters who "corrected" the manager about weighing rhubarb have all of their meals out of cardboard boxes delivered to their caves and haven't actually stepped foot in a grocery checkout line in the last five years, or so? Otherwise they might have noticed that these days the scale is built flush with the counter to minimize cashier motion/save time/squeeze that extra penny onto the store's bottom line. This set-up, of course, means that overlong rhubarbs ARE, in fact, resting part of their weight on the counter.
there was a bit of a rhubarb over the pepper, caused by melons [ and possibly jealousy ] , but solved by the store putting their best foot forward and uplifting the [ certainly non-offending ] rounded body parts in question?
the only unsorted items appear to be :
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1:playmobil.
2:pictures and diagrams if appropriate [ pg.3].
3:the attempt to remove the mental picture of a pre-operative simona halep wearing a skimpy tesco-ish uniform from popping into our heads for the rest of the day.
4:having several pints to discuss the relative merits of weights and measures and how they apply to common interests.
5:the possible banning of most of us by the moderatrix for life after having risen to the challenge, which is surely a trap.
6: trollkin, because this post really is across the yellow line...
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