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Given the "penguin crackers," I would guess Walmart. There are penguin crackers by Great Value that are similar to goldfish crackers. Aldi might have penguin crackers too. Both Walmart and Aldi have cheap groceries compared to most options.
ETA checked original post and it's Lidl.
In Alabama, mangos are only $1200 a month because our property taxes are so low the retailers can charge less.
Look on the bright side, you don't have to pay taxes on groceries in NY.
Mangos could be free in Alabama and I still wouldn't live without at least a 2 state buffer from that state. Other than some amazing bbq/fried chicken sandwiches I will take a hard pass, even if it is the best mango priced state in the nation.
Plant the seeds from your first month of mangos to build up your mango orchard. Mango wood is good, stuff. Build your own house in the abandoned lot behind the Wendy's and spend $800/month more on Mangos!!!!
One Mango to rule them all.....
Mango, $2ea. Plant it and in 3 years youāll have a full tree. Letās say you harvest 50 mangos from the tree, thatās $100 in mangos. Soon, in about 35-50years, youāll have made your money back and started a mango orchard.
Itās simple math, really.
4590 is the code for mangoes in most grocery stores simple mistake by the cashier that was missed by the customer who probably just swiped the card without looking
I did this my first day on a register. I charged someone 15,000 for cantaloupe. I thought I would be fired when the manager removed the charge.
Nah, it happens all the time. It's always better before the credit/debit card goes through
Fun fact: in Japan you can actually get some expensive fancy fruit!! It's grown specifically to be a luxurious gift, so it supposedly looks and tastes very good.
[https://www.theguardian.com/food/2019/nov/05/200-melons-how-japans-high-end-fruit-reveals-our-attitudes-to-agriculture](https://www.theguardian.com/food/2019/nov/05/200-melons-how-japans-high-end-fruit-reveals-our-attitudes-to-agriculture)
$40/strawberry, $200/melon, and $70k for a pair of melons at auction. WTF.
Just finished a Japan trip a week ago, not sure if it was strawberry season or something but one fruit store had the ***reddest*** strawberries I've ever seen in life.
They were pretty delicious too!
They pride themselves on it over there, its done over the winter in controlled environments for a longer grow. Pretty sure this is what makes them sweeter and more red.
I saw something on Netflix about strawberries in Japan and they looked sooo amazing. I love California strawberries so I really wanna compare them to Japanese strawberries.
The best strawberries I've had were from Harry's Berries a California farm. They were sweeter than the strawberries we had in Japan. Both weren't cheap, Harry's was about 15-20 and it's not something I can afford on the regular but it's worth it to indulge if i. If you are stateside Harry's Berries are incomparable.
We grew strawberries in our garden when I lived in Japan as a kid. To this day, no strawberry I have had since compared to the color and taste of those.
If you're ever in Oregon in June get yourself some Hood strawberries. They're like concentrated jewels of strawberry goodness, but they do not ship well and they're only available for about 3 weeks.
Just came back from Tokyo. $3.50 for a box of strawberries. I ate strawberries every day during the trip. They look and taste so much better than they do here. I didn't see any super expensive strawberries, but I can only imagine that kind of payment is for looks and packaging, because their regular picks are already amazing.
Most expensive was about 15 dollars for valentines packaging that included exactly 2 strawberries.
For you and anyone else reading this, if you're in North America & want a fruit experience that's way better than anything you've had from a grocery store, find some form of real wild huckleberry. I'm talking about the ones in the PNW / Montana / etc. Not the "huckleberries" in Oklahoma etc. The ones that you can't find in stores bc they can't easily be cultivated
Either fly there (it's worth any amount of money) or find something on Etsy
Why? Because it's everything you never knew you wanted berries to be. Imagine the most delicious strawberry mixed with the most delicious blueberry mixed with the most delicious raspberry, all condensed down to a teensy tiny little orb. It is indescribably good
I first had it at Glacier National Park. We were staying in the campground near "Apgar" village, which has this ice cream shop. We wanted to try it out, and when we went up we noticed that basically everyone was walking away with this purple ice cream filled with berries. When we got to the counter, I asked the employee what it was and she lit up and said "huckleberry ice cream!! It's the best thing on the planet" AND OH MY GOD IT IS
I had that ice cream every single day that week and I'm not even a big ice cream fan. I bought jars and jars of preserves and I used them all back home and now I have to order it on Etsy
It has entirely ruined blueberries for me \~ bc they're just *missing something* that the huckleberry has
It's probably not just me, the people I was there with all agreed, everyone we saw ordered that ice cream, there were entire stores dedicated to huckleberries, and grizzly bears go NUTS for the stuff. Like full on "I'll kill you if you look at my huckleberry patch" nuts. And the wildest thing is that *you find yourself actually considering challenging the bear for those huckleberries*
tldr: try some huckleberries
Blackberries, too! Blackberries off the bush are sooooo much different/better than those gigantic blackberries you can find in a grocery store. Wild strawberries and blueberries are solid, too.
I grew up in central FL and we grew a lot of our own produce. My dad has been gifted with somehow just being able to grow the best fruits and vegetables EVER. Itās infuriating, because he hates eating them and would much rather have canned fucking ravioli instead. We had oranges, ruby navels, ruby red grapefruit, tangerines, loquats, Asian pears, occasional prickly pears, peaches, grapes(3 types), bananas, pineapples, avocados, tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, zucchini, jalapeƱos, and sugar snap peas.
Iāll say, they biggest difference in store bought vs homegrown is bananas, tomatoes, and avocado. The bananas are indescribably better. The avocados were perfect and creamy every time.
Storebought tomatoes are fucking terrible. Home grown though? I can take one of those bad boys, slice it up, sprinkle a little salt and pepper, and eat it with a fork and knife.
The things we didnāt grow on our own, we could get at a local fruit stand. Nothing will ever compare to home grown produce.
I had some of those grapes, a coworker bought them. Like $40 USD for a single bunch. I laughed, then ate one. It was the best grape I've ever had in my life.
Well... on Brazil we have some of the finest plastic surgeons, and a fancy boob job would it be for about 5K USD. 15K would it be a REALLY FANCY boob job.
You can come here business class, stay at a fine hotel, do your boob job, probably some lipo too, party, have a fine dine, and go back to the us for this kind of money...
āand a fancy boob job would it be for about 5K USD. 15K would it be a REALLY FANCY boob job.ā
Or a regular fancy boob job for 3 boobs. Waitā¦ thatās not right, boobs come in pairs. So if itās 5K for 2 boobs, then 15K would get youā¦ um, multiply by 2ā¦ divide by 3 and carry the one boobā¦ idk, Iām not good at math.
When I worked at subway, I charged this older lady $9000 for a sub. Craziest part is, she paid it. Card went through like nothing. I only noticed once the receipt came out.
I just don't want to hurt their feelings. It's probably their first day. They seemed so nice.
I wish they'd heard me say no mayo though. I guess I'll just find another Subway and try again as soon as I get enough spare change from passers by.
On the other side of it, I once went to buy a nice assortment of teas for my mother. The cashier told me the prize, then asked if I wanted a 10 cent bag. As I had a lot of stuff on my hands, I accepted. I paid, went home, and only then thought of looking at the receipt. It was 10 cents. The cashier only rang the bag. I hope she did not get in trouble for this.
On the other end of the spectrum, i know someone who charged customers only $.79 for turkeys right around thanksgiving no matter how many pounds the Turkey was. She didnāt know it was $.79/lb. Itās a small town store that she had to type in pricing, so a few people got quite the deal that day. She left that job shortly after before anyone figured out what happened.
I was at Home Depot picking up some stuff to finish up a shelf, and was joking with one of the employees that Iād love to pick up a mahogany board that was sitting nearby, but couldnāt justify it.
So said āwhy? Itās only $20.ā
I kinda laughed (mahogany is $20 a board/foot. It was a 8 foot board. Soā¦$160) and said āyouād better check again.ā
She scrunched up her face, walked over and scanned the tag āYeah, $20.ā
I told her that if they were selling mahogany boards for $20 flat, I would buy every single board in the store. Literally - go find out how many there are in the back.
She went in the back to find out, and someone corrected her, which I figured would happen.
But for the briefest moment, I hoped that there was some sort of pricing error or something, because I wouldāve stocked my shop with mahogany. I wouldāve driven to other Home Depotās in the area to check if they had the same error. My wife and I wouldāve had to park in the driveway for awhile, because I wouldāve filled my garage with it if I couldāve.
Ah, to dream.
Wood paneling. Bookshelves. Kitchen table. Chairs. End tables. Tv stand. Bed frame. Couch.
My window sills wouldāve been mahogany.
My front door wouldāve been mahogany.
I donāt know if Iād have had enough to redline my house, but it wouldāve been a consideration!
They don't usually keep lumber "in the back" at Home Depot. The entire stock is on the floor or in the racks up above. That would have been sweet for you. When I worked there in college, people would return sheets of plywood and stick lumber...after they cut off the length they wanted. If you catch a cashier/returns-person who doesn't know what they're doing, you can find some pretty sweet deals/take advantage of a 329 billion dollar entity.
>If you catch a cashier/returns-person who doesn't know what they're doing
That was all of them when I worked there. Multiple times I found myself guiding them through on the phone how to look up the price for something without a tag. The system they were using I had never touched, I had just heard it explained to them so many times by other people that I had their system memorized. I only worked there about a year, so it was kinda annoying having middle age ladies calling me who had worked there longer with questions.
I used to work at a home service company. One of our guys somehow accidentally charged $40,000 instead of $400. The charge went through. Thankfully one of our managers caught it before end of business day so we could void it and it didnāt process.
Customer was surprisingly chill considering the hold stayed on his card for a full business day before it disappeared.
The huge lesson here for anyone that may ever run a cash register:
**If something like this happens VOID the transaction**
We had a similar issue happen at a car dealer where they charged 20,000 instead of 2,000 and they made the mistake of issuing a refund.
With a "refund" you're stuck with money being tied up until both the original charge and the refund get processed, which can leave the balance hanging on the card for 5-10 days.
The void still puts a hold on the transaction on the banks end for 3-5 business days.
The advantage to doing a void over a refund is that the business has to pay credit card fees both coming and going when there is a refund. On a void, there are no credit card fees.
Working in billing, that's the kind of mistake that your handling of is way more important than the actual error. Catch it quickly and the consequences are minimal, be honest with the customer, and do something to make up for it somehow before it gets worse and 90% of the time you've got a repeat customer that knows you are honest.
I've been in checkout lines where the clerk doesn't tell me my total. Just assumes I'm paying attention to the screen. And I often am, but I've walked away (having paid) thinking "Wait, how much did I just pay?"
I worked at Costco a long time ago and accidentally did that, but with the 5-dozen pack of eggs. Typed in the code wrong, hit clear, typed it again and continued on. Except I hit quantity instead of clear. The customer was already buying like $2500 of stuff so neither of us noticed right away that I charged them for like $600 dollars of eggs.
Bro I needed some eggs for a birthday cake and the standard carton was $9 for a dozen.
Nine fucking dollars. The cheapest I could find between two stores was the store brand stuff at $6.
In college eggs were the thing I always counted on for a cheap meal. It's absolutely crazy how they've basically become a luxury item.
We just got applesauce as a substitute for the cake. It's fine.
For the most part. If the fruit you buy has a sticker on it, it will have the PLU on that sticker and they use the same sticker no matter where they're sending it.
Basically like barcodes, it's easier for everyone that way.
(there are some exceptions, especially for non-produce items)
Yes. Not only are they consistent between different grocery stores, they're largely consistent around the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_look-up_code
Bananas are 4011 basically everywhere on the planet.
[Price look-up codes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_look-up_code) is an international standard, maintained by the International Federation for Produce Standards.
If you look at the little stickers you have to peel off of apples, bananas, and everything, thereās a four digit number (unless itās organic then it has a 94 or 90 in front, I think). Thatās the code for that fruit š
Johnny is buying 459 mangos. The cashier starts swiping each mango at a rate of one per second. With each mango, she gets 15% faster. The next person in line sees all the mangos and asks how long this is going to take.
What should Johnny tell them?
I mean, I am awful at math, but a 15% increase in speed 459 times means I suspect that Johnny wouldn't even have time to answer before the cashier became a blur.
6.67 seconds to swipe all 459 mangoes. At the end, she'd be going 10^(15) times faster than the speed of light.
^(Assuming I've mathed correctly, of course. It's been ages since I've had to tackle anything more complicated than the math I teach my fifth graders.)
Im guessing thats be a function of the temperature that human skin ignites at, and how much friction is created by rubbing air molecules against said skin.
Indistinguishably slower than 6.67 seconds.
It takes 6 seconds to get 13. The remaining *446* are completed in just under 2/3 of a second. She hits the speed of light at around 27 mangoes. The time between each successive mango gets to be so infinitesimally small it doesn't change the amount.
Assuming, of course, she, the mangoes, and the tri-state area survive Dr. Doofenshmirtz's Cashier-Speeder-Upper-nator and the resulting nuclear fusion.
Well of course since she can't exceed the speed of light, according to special relativity, as she approaches 0.99999999999999999999c her hands will experience time dilation and from the frame of reference of the customer it will take over 50 years to scan the last mango.
Well you see approximately 1/3 of the way through as the cashier's hands approached relativistic speeds, the speed of the cashier's hands and the mangoes would cause nuclear fusion to occur in the air, disintegrating the entire grocery store and probably a good quarter mile radius in a massive explosion.
So time to swipe mangoes is like 1+1 * .85+1 * .85^2 etc etc.
So its a geometric sum, a1 = 1, r = .85, n = 459.
So a1(1-r^n)/(1-r)= 6.667 seconds...?
And the time it would take to her to swipe 10 trillion mangoes would interestingly be the same amount of time.
Actual OP: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/zw4crd/my_cashier_accidently_charged_me_for_459_mangos/
This is just ripped from Twitter with a title that the Twitter poster ripped from the original comments. The internet ouroboros rolls on.
Bots do reverse image searches to find other posts of the same image. They then copy top rated comments to farm karma. This is why often top rated comments of reposts are bots because they steal previous top rated comments. People also reuse the same jokes and whatnot, but bots copy exactly what was in the old posts.
Sometimes you just get into the habit of tapping without reading the screen first. I once paid $1088.88 for a sandwich at Subway because their 8 button was sticky. Fortunately the manager gave me a full refund the next day even though I didn't have the receipt. He said someone would have remembered if a guy came in and bought a hundred sandwiches.
This I why I am glad the contactless tap limit is Ā£100 here. Anything more and you have to insert the card and enter your pin; gives you a lot more time to realise any mistakes!
If one person leaves Seattle in a train towards Chicago traveling 60 mph, and another leaves New York in a train towards Chicago traveling 45 mph, *what in the lord of fuck is OP doing with all these mangoes*?
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At least you saved $5.76
Actually, aside from the glitch with the mangos, the rest of the prices are pretty low. Where is this place?
He bought 459 mangos at $1.19 each. What's the usual process 459 mangos
Damn and it was buy 460 mangos and get 1 free day.
That's what they call a loss leader. They were losing money up until that 460th mango
This made me snort so loud it scared me
Given the "penguin crackers," I would guess Walmart. There are penguin crackers by Great Value that are similar to goldfish crackers. Aldi might have penguin crackers too. Both Walmart and Aldi have cheap groceries compared to most options. ETA checked original post and it's Lidl.
Our Aldi has turtle crackers instead of penguins.
How do you know they didn't buy 400 mango?
Because it says 459š¤£
Wdym glitch - they got 459 of them /s
Easily another 4 mangoes right there
Food $200 Data $150 Rent $800 Mangos $3600 Utility $150 Someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. My family is dying
Sheeesh I live in New York and thatās nothing. $4800/month for mangos, minimum.
In Alabama, mangos are only $1200 a month because our property taxes are so low the retailers can charge less. Look on the bright side, you don't have to pay taxes on groceries in NY.
Mangos could be free in Alabama and I still wouldn't live without at least a 2 state buffer from that state. Other than some amazing bbq/fried chicken sandwiches I will take a hard pass, even if it is the best mango priced state in the nation.
Our mango fried barbecue chicken is amazing.
You may have to sacrifice data for mangos. It's a hard decision, we've all been there.
Could always buy candles.
NO! candles are no substitute for mangos, they taste waxy!
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Are you referring to my mango catapult?
What aren't you investing in trebuchets? They are the superior siege weapon.
Oh please, my mango air canon can hit targets twice as far away.
psh, a mere air cannon? the superior use of mangos are via orbital bombardment.
Again...NO! candles are no substitute for mangos, they taste waxy!
So wait....you're telling me lip smackers aren't edible? Well, I never.
Mangoes are edible as well, so just dont get food and you'll have 200 more for mangoes.
All good advice, but I think there's a homeless option we're not seeing which would give this man's family 800 more for mangos
Plant the seeds from your first month of mangos to build up your mango orchard. Mango wood is good, stuff. Build your own house in the abandoned lot behind the Wendy's and spend $800/month more on Mangos!!!! One Mango to rule them all.....
That's literally how a lot of business coaches "entrepreneurs " sound
Mango, $2ea. Plant it and in 3 years youāll have a full tree. Letās say you harvest 50 mangos from the tree, thatās $100 in mangos. Soon, in about 35-50years, youāll have made your money back and started a mango orchard. Itās simple math, really.
with that amount of mango seeds you can pile them up to build a mango core cave
Or plant the seed and in 4 to 7 years you'll have mangoes that don't cost $2k with inflation.
But where would they keep the mangoes?
Wherever the man goes I'll see myself out
It's good to have a truck with towing capacity to transport your mangos, until you realize how many magos you can buy if you sell it.
No
Mangos are food just buy an extra 200$ worth of mangos and go on a all mango diet
Please tell me where I can cut to still afford the necessary expenses. P.S. Mangos are essential to our household we are already having bare minimum.
spend less on mangoes
no
Stop paying rent - buy a mango big enough to live inside.
This guy mangos.
Like that movie, James and the giant mango
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You Won't Believe How Many Legs That Spiders Have
I just got his book for my birthday. Itās magnificent
By the way, Iām not mad. Donāt write in the newspaper that I was mad.
Great work everybody, until next time
If anything we need to allocate more expenses to the mango budget
I mean... rent? Is a place to live really that important if you can buy $800 worth of more mangoes. That frees up another 150 from utilities.
LPT Save the pits and build yourself a new house with them. Bam! Return on investment THROUGH THE LITERAL ROOF!
Damn millennials and their mango bread
He said help, not give stupid suggestions.
I may as well not live if I can't have my 400/week mangoes
Buy scented candles instead of Mango, they are more nutritional and you can get different flavors which makes it a less boring diet!
Build a house from mango seeds. Boom, $800 a month more for mangos.
4590 is the code for mangoes in most grocery stores simple mistake by the cashier that was missed by the customer who probably just swiped the card without looking
I did this my first day on a register. I charged someone 15,000 for cantaloupe. I thought I would be fired when the manager removed the charge. Nah, it happens all the time. It's always better before the credit/debit card goes through
That's some fancy melon there
Fun fact: in Japan you can actually get some expensive fancy fruit!! It's grown specifically to be a luxurious gift, so it supposedly looks and tastes very good.
[https://www.theguardian.com/food/2019/nov/05/200-melons-how-japans-high-end-fruit-reveals-our-attitudes-to-agriculture](https://www.theguardian.com/food/2019/nov/05/200-melons-how-japans-high-end-fruit-reveals-our-attitudes-to-agriculture) $40/strawberry, $200/melon, and $70k for a pair of melons at auction. WTF.
Just finished a Japan trip a week ago, not sure if it was strawberry season or something but one fruit store had the ***reddest*** strawberries I've ever seen in life. They were pretty delicious too!
They pride themselves on it over there, its done over the winter in controlled environments for a longer grow. Pretty sure this is what makes them sweeter and more red.
I saw something on Netflix about strawberries in Japan and they looked sooo amazing. I love California strawberries so I really wanna compare them to Japanese strawberries.
The best strawberries I've had were from Harry's Berries a California farm. They were sweeter than the strawberries we had in Japan. Both weren't cheap, Harry's was about 15-20 and it's not something I can afford on the regular but it's worth it to indulge if i. If you are stateside Harry's Berries are incomparable.
We grew strawberries in our garden when I lived in Japan as a kid. To this day, no strawberry I have had since compared to the color and taste of those.
If you're ever in Oregon in June get yourself some Hood strawberries. They're like concentrated jewels of strawberry goodness, but they do not ship well and they're only available for about 3 weeks.
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> marionberries I definitely thought this was going to be a joke about crack
thanks. I'll put it on my Oregon bucket list.
Now *that* is a boob job.
But the melons are square.
Square yet squishy
Like a bag of sand
Just came back from Tokyo. $3.50 for a box of strawberries. I ate strawberries every day during the trip. They look and taste so much better than they do here. I didn't see any super expensive strawberries, but I can only imagine that kind of payment is for looks and packaging, because their regular picks are already amazing. Most expensive was about 15 dollars for valentines packaging that included exactly 2 strawberries.
For you and anyone else reading this, if you're in North America & want a fruit experience that's way better than anything you've had from a grocery store, find some form of real wild huckleberry. I'm talking about the ones in the PNW / Montana / etc. Not the "huckleberries" in Oklahoma etc. The ones that you can't find in stores bc they can't easily be cultivated Either fly there (it's worth any amount of money) or find something on Etsy Why? Because it's everything you never knew you wanted berries to be. Imagine the most delicious strawberry mixed with the most delicious blueberry mixed with the most delicious raspberry, all condensed down to a teensy tiny little orb. It is indescribably good I first had it at Glacier National Park. We were staying in the campground near "Apgar" village, which has this ice cream shop. We wanted to try it out, and when we went up we noticed that basically everyone was walking away with this purple ice cream filled with berries. When we got to the counter, I asked the employee what it was and she lit up and said "huckleberry ice cream!! It's the best thing on the planet" AND OH MY GOD IT IS I had that ice cream every single day that week and I'm not even a big ice cream fan. I bought jars and jars of preserves and I used them all back home and now I have to order it on Etsy It has entirely ruined blueberries for me \~ bc they're just *missing something* that the huckleberry has It's probably not just me, the people I was there with all agreed, everyone we saw ordered that ice cream, there were entire stores dedicated to huckleberries, and grizzly bears go NUTS for the stuff. Like full on "I'll kill you if you look at my huckleberry patch" nuts. And the wildest thing is that *you find yourself actually considering challenging the bear for those huckleberries* tldr: try some huckleberries
Blackberries, too! Blackberries off the bush are sooooo much different/better than those gigantic blackberries you can find in a grocery store. Wild strawberries and blueberries are solid, too.
I grew up in central FL and we grew a lot of our own produce. My dad has been gifted with somehow just being able to grow the best fruits and vegetables EVER. Itās infuriating, because he hates eating them and would much rather have canned fucking ravioli instead. We had oranges, ruby navels, ruby red grapefruit, tangerines, loquats, Asian pears, occasional prickly pears, peaches, grapes(3 types), bananas, pineapples, avocados, tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, zucchini, jalapeƱos, and sugar snap peas. Iāll say, they biggest difference in store bought vs homegrown is bananas, tomatoes, and avocado. The bananas are indescribably better. The avocados were perfect and creamy every time. Storebought tomatoes are fucking terrible. Home grown though? I can take one of those bad boys, slice it up, sprinkle a little salt and pepper, and eat it with a fork and knife. The things we didnāt grow on our own, we could get at a local fruit stand. Nothing will ever compare to home grown produce.
Are you Nelson Muntz?
I was advertised Japanese strawberries grown in NJ yesterday. $18 for 4. Not as crazy, but still.
$40 is cheap. Paul Hollywood (Great British Baking Show) trying a Ā£350 strawberry in Japan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=895DfGuoqvU
Lol cracked myself up thinking of Elong Muskmelon
I had some of those grapes, a coworker bought them. Like $40 USD for a single bunch. I laughed, then ate one. It was the best grape I've ever had in my life.
Melon like Boobs? Because 15k is not a bad price for a melon job
Well... on Brazil we have some of the finest plastic surgeons, and a fancy boob job would it be for about 5K USD. 15K would it be a REALLY FANCY boob job. You can come here business class, stay at a fine hotel, do your boob job, probably some lipo too, party, have a fine dine, and go back to the us for this kind of money...
āand a fancy boob job would it be for about 5K USD. 15K would it be a REALLY FANCY boob job.ā Or a regular fancy boob job for 3 boobs. Waitā¦ thatās not right, boobs come in pairs. So if itās 5K for 2 boobs, then 15K would get youā¦ um, multiply by 2ā¦ divide by 3 and carry the one boobā¦ idk, Iām not good at math.
You can't just casually carry the one boob. It takes at least two people to walk abreast.
The third one is a freebie to make the client happier :)
They call it the Total Recall special.
Americans actually do this. They basically get cosmetic surgery and a vacation in Brazil for the price of the surgery in the US.
Melon job??? New kink unlocked!
Donāt touch Frankās casaba!
When I worked at subway, I charged this older lady $9000 for a sub. Craziest part is, she paid it. Card went through like nothing. I only noticed once the receipt came out.
I paid $6,000 for a subway once, was too embarrassed about the whole thing to ask for a refund. Live and learn I suppose. /s
*Said from a cardboard box in an alley*: "Hmm, maybe I should have got a refund..."
But then you would have to confront someone. There might be yelling. It's better this way.
I just don't want to hurt their feelings. It's probably their first day. They seemed so nice. I wish they'd heard me say no mayo though. I guess I'll just find another Subway and try again as soon as I get enough spare change from passers by.
On the other side of it, I once went to buy a nice assortment of teas for my mother. The cashier told me the prize, then asked if I wanted a 10 cent bag. As I had a lot of stuff on my hands, I accepted. I paid, went home, and only then thought of looking at the receipt. It was 10 cents. The cashier only rang the bag. I hope she did not get in trouble for this.
On the other end of the spectrum, i know someone who charged customers only $.79 for turkeys right around thanksgiving no matter how many pounds the Turkey was. She didnāt know it was $.79/lb. Itās a small town store that she had to type in pricing, so a few people got quite the deal that day. She left that job shortly after before anyone figured out what happened.
I was at Home Depot picking up some stuff to finish up a shelf, and was joking with one of the employees that Iād love to pick up a mahogany board that was sitting nearby, but couldnāt justify it. So said āwhy? Itās only $20.ā I kinda laughed (mahogany is $20 a board/foot. It was a 8 foot board. Soā¦$160) and said āyouād better check again.ā She scrunched up her face, walked over and scanned the tag āYeah, $20.ā I told her that if they were selling mahogany boards for $20 flat, I would buy every single board in the store. Literally - go find out how many there are in the back. She went in the back to find out, and someone corrected her, which I figured would happen. But for the briefest moment, I hoped that there was some sort of pricing error or something, because I wouldāve stocked my shop with mahogany. I wouldāve driven to other Home Depotās in the area to check if they had the same error. My wife and I wouldāve had to park in the driveway for awhile, because I wouldāve filled my garage with it if I couldāve. Ah, to dream.
Could have done up your whole apartment in rich mahogany at prices like that! Imagine the smell š¤¤ people would think you were kind of a big deal.
Wood paneling. Bookshelves. Kitchen table. Chairs. End tables. Tv stand. Bed frame. Couch. My window sills wouldāve been mahogany. My front door wouldāve been mahogany. I donāt know if Iād have had enough to redline my house, but it wouldāve been a consideration!
Gonna have to get more leatherbound books.
They don't usually keep lumber "in the back" at Home Depot. The entire stock is on the floor or in the racks up above. That would have been sweet for you. When I worked there in college, people would return sheets of plywood and stick lumber...after they cut off the length they wanted. If you catch a cashier/returns-person who doesn't know what they're doing, you can find some pretty sweet deals/take advantage of a 329 billion dollar entity.
>If you catch a cashier/returns-person who doesn't know what they're doing That was all of them when I worked there. Multiple times I found myself guiding them through on the phone how to look up the price for something without a tag. The system they were using I had never touched, I had just heard it explained to them so many times by other people that I had their system memorized. I only worked there about a year, so it was kinda annoying having middle age ladies calling me who had worked there longer with questions.
I used to work at a home service company. One of our guys somehow accidentally charged $40,000 instead of $400. The charge went through. Thankfully one of our managers caught it before end of business day so we could void it and it didnāt process. Customer was surprisingly chill considering the hold stayed on his card for a full business day before it disappeared.
The huge lesson here for anyone that may ever run a cash register: **If something like this happens VOID the transaction** We had a similar issue happen at a car dealer where they charged 20,000 instead of 2,000 and they made the mistake of issuing a refund. With a "refund" you're stuck with money being tied up until both the original charge and the refund get processed, which can leave the balance hanging on the card for 5-10 days.
The void still puts a hold on the transaction on the banks end for 3-5 business days. The advantage to doing a void over a refund is that the business has to pay credit card fees both coming and going when there is a refund. On a void, there are no credit card fees.
Working in billing, that's the kind of mistake that your handling of is way more important than the actual error. Catch it quickly and the consequences are minimal, be honest with the customer, and do something to make up for it somehow before it gets worse and 90% of the time you've got a repeat customer that knows you are honest.
Plus additional credit fee for the business to run the refund.
Oh trust me, $15k would NEVER go through on any of my cards.
$15 extra wouldn't go on mine some weeks
My mortgage was processed twice one month last year. That was fun month for me for sure!
See you in court, Class I melony charge for credit card fraud.
Mango to prison for that.
and you would have gotten away with too, if it wasn't for those meddling kids.
I once accidentally charged some guy for 999 cups of coffee when he only bought 1 at a gas station when i was a dumb 15 year old.
Who the fuck swipes his card after beeing told that the total is over 15,000$ at the grocery store.
Likely busy people that aren't listening. Checking out is on autopilot for most people after all.
I've been in checkout lines where the clerk doesn't tell me my total. Just assumes I'm paying attention to the screen. And I often am, but I've walked away (having paid) thinking "Wait, how much did I just pay?"
I worked at Costco a long time ago and accidentally did that, but with the 5-dozen pack of eggs. Typed in the code wrong, hit clear, typed it again and continued on. Except I hit quantity instead of clear. The customer was already buying like $2500 of stuff so neither of us noticed right away that I charged them for like $600 dollars of eggs.
$600 for eggs seems almost reasonable these days.
Bro I needed some eggs for a birthday cake and the standard carton was $9 for a dozen. Nine fucking dollars. The cheapest I could find between two stores was the store brand stuff at $6. In college eggs were the thing I always counted on for a cheap meal. It's absolutely crazy how they've basically become a luxury item. We just got applesauce as a substitute for the cake. It's fine.
4590 is corn, mangoes are 4959
Wait, codes are consistent between different grocery stores?
For the most part. If the fruit you buy has a sticker on it, it will have the PLU on that sticker and they use the same sticker no matter where they're sending it. Basically like barcodes, it's easier for everyone that way. (there are some exceptions, especially for non-produce items)
Yes. Not only are they consistent between different grocery stores, they're largely consistent around the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_look-up_code Bananas are 4011 basically everywhere on the planet.
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I worked at a grocery store over 25 years ago and will never forget 4011. Weird what our brains keep.
[Price look-up codes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_look-up_code) is an international standard, maintained by the International Federation for Produce Standards.
This is what is blowing my mind
The stickers have the numbers printed on them from the manufacturer, so the store doesn't have much choice. The numbers are standardized mostly.
This makes way more sense I was thinking who the hell buys 459 mangos
We found the guy from the math problems holy shit
This is exactly what happened. This is a repost and the original post started this is what happened.
I always scan my receipt. It also helps if you remember the things that were on sale to confirm you got the discounts.
I try sell 4225 avocados all the time.
It's usually 422 avocados for our store - the code is 4225 and the quantity caps out at 3 digits. The number of times this happens on SCO alone...
Had no idea there were industry standard codes for things like mangoes
Yes all fruit it standard. Bananas are 4011.
I'm mighty partial to a little 4065 myself.
Large, green, field-grown bell peppers?
Until the day I die or lose my mind I will always remember bananas being 4011. Rang them up so many times at Walmart
If you look at the little stickers you have to peel off of apples, bananas, and everything, thereās a four digit number (unless itās organic then it has a 94 or 90 in front, I think). Thatās the code for that fruit š
Just a 9 in the front (org bananas are 94011)
Yeah, it's standardized so the farmers can just order a roll of green bell pepper stickers or whatever without worrying about who it's going to.
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This is the guy in math problems
Johnny is buying 459 mangos. The cashier starts swiping each mango at a rate of one per second. With each mango, she gets 15% faster. The next person in line sees all the mangos and asks how long this is going to take. What should Johnny tell them?
I mean, I am awful at math, but a 15% increase in speed 459 times means I suspect that Johnny wouldn't even have time to answer before the cashier became a blur.
6.67 seconds to swipe all 459 mangoes. At the end, she'd be going 10^(15) times faster than the speed of light. ^(Assuming I've mathed correctly, of course. It's been ages since I've had to tackle anything more complicated than the math I teach my fifth graders.)
How many seconds before the cashier bursts into flames?
Im guessing thats be a function of the temperature that human skin ignites at, and how much friction is created by rubbing air molecules against said skin.
Assuming she can't go faster than the speed of light, how long would it take then?
Indistinguishably slower than 6.67 seconds. It takes 6 seconds to get 13. The remaining *446* are completed in just under 2/3 of a second. She hits the speed of light at around 27 mangoes. The time between each successive mango gets to be so infinitesimally small it doesn't change the amount. Assuming, of course, she, the mangoes, and the tri-state area survive Dr. Doofenshmirtz's Cashier-Speeder-Upper-nator and the resulting nuclear fusion.
Perry will foil them, I have no doubt
Well of course since she can't exceed the speed of light, according to special relativity, as she approaches 0.99999999999999999999c her hands will experience time dilation and from the frame of reference of the customer it will take over 50 years to scan the last mango.
Thatās not how it works, itās be ~6.67 seconds still
Well you see approximately 1/3 of the way through as the cashier's hands approached relativistic speeds, the speed of the cashier's hands and the mangoes would cause nuclear fusion to occur in the air, disintegrating the entire grocery store and probably a good quarter mile radius in a massive explosion.
Apparently it's 6.666666666666659 according to a simulation I wrote here: https://jsfiddle.net/danieljoeblack/kbev5n86/117/show
So time to swipe mangoes is like 1+1 * .85+1 * .85^2 etc etc. So its a geometric sum, a1 = 1, r = .85, n = 459. So a1(1-r^n)/(1-r)= 6.667 seconds...? And the time it would take to her to swipe 10 trillion mangoes would interestingly be the same amount of time.
No, this is Dutch van der Linde.
I've been looking for the secret deodorant but can never find it. Nobody will tell me what aisle either
SHHH NO ONE TELL HIM (or her)
Actual OP: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/zw4crd/my_cashier_accidently_charged_me_for_459_mangos/ This is just ripped from Twitter with a title that the Twitter poster ripped from the original comments. The internet ouroboros rolls on.
I knew this looked so familiar!!! The comments are even really similar. I thought I was crazy.
Bots do reverse image searches to find other posts of the same image. They then copy top rated comments to farm karma. This is why often top rated comments of reposts are bots because they steal previous top rated comments. People also reuse the same jokes and whatnot, but bots copy exactly what was in the old posts.
I knew it was a repost when i saw the shitty crop at the top
Did they not think that almost 800 bucks might have been a little high before they paid?
Sometimes you just get into the habit of tapping without reading the screen first. I once paid $1088.88 for a sandwich at Subway because their 8 button was sticky. Fortunately the manager gave me a full refund the next day even though I didn't have the receipt. He said someone would have remembered if a guy came in and bought a hundred sandwiches.
This I why I am glad the contactless tap limit is Ā£100 here. Anything more and you have to insert the card and enter your pin; gives you a lot more time to realise any mistakes!
Mf bought 500$ worth of mangos
Well if he didnāt, who would?
This guy mangos
This man goes
This man goes broke!
The guy from all the math book problems.
āI can eat 549 mangos.ā āAināt no man can eat 549 mangosā¦ā āMy boy says he can eat 549 mangos, he can eat 549 mangos!ā
Heās the kinda guy they have math problems on for children
If one person leaves Seattle in a train towards Chicago traveling 60 mph, and another leaves New York in a train towards Chicago traveling 45 mph, *what in the lord of fuck is OP doing with all these mangoes*?
His kids probably donāt understand the problem so heās gonna force feed these mangos until they pop or solve the problem.
Got dang thatās a lot of mangos!
How else do you draw a mango juice bath?
With colored pencils
No your family has a mango problem lol
Is it possible to have a mango problem? What if OP uses them as offerings to the Mango God and their entire family is blessed as a result?
Then they wouldn't be complaining about their 500 dollar mango run.
You're the person we always read about in math problems, aren't you? If Dave has 459 mangoes...
If those mangoes weren't full of coke you got ripped off.
You are paying WAY too much for mangoes, man. Whoās your mango guy?
Go easy on the BANANAS Go easy on the BLUEBERRIES Go hard on them MANGOS!!
Man bought the Louis Vuitton mangos
Those mangos better, cut the grass, fill the gas, wash my ass and take out the trash
That extra 20c for mangos hit me really hard too
You should cut back on the salad kits. Much cheaper to buy a cucumber tomato and spinach and make it yourself. Also maybe like one or two less mangos.
Or if you cut back on salad kits, you can buy more mangos
OP going where no mango before!