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Old 01-20-2023, 11:41 AM   #35679
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Originally Posted by issybird View Post
What truly shocks me is how cashiers can’t do mental arithmetic. Once a transaction goes beyond swiping the bar code and reading out the total they’re at a loss. Bad enough when it’s just simple addition or subtraction; percents are the realm of higher mathematics.
Or the person years back when I took my daughter for a kid's happy meal at a fast food place. Paid with a $10 bill. The math challenged cashier accidentally hit an extra zero when inputting the payment and was happily trying to give me $95 in change.
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