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CHECKOUT COUNTER MERCHANDISE SCANNERS

Always verify you were charged the correct "sale" price since scanners' "sale" prices may not be updated regularly possibly leading to mistakes up to 40% of the time charging customers regular retail prices instead of the advertised sale price!

Remember, if stores were losing money due to scanner errors you can bet scanner problems would be corrected quickly! Also, when you get home you may find the scanner rang up 5 cans of a particular product instead of the 4 you actually bought.

There seems to just as many errors these days using state-of-the-art scanners compared to the old days when merchandise prices were punched into the cash register manually ringing up every purchase by hand!

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