Nah, this wasn't an issue with the scanner, it's an issue with the core design of the software. For whatever reason, it uses different value fields when determining the price to display for an item and the price used in the total, that means this problem can occur for any number of items and the only way to detect it is to manually total the receipt. It's a fundamental problem with the software and their pricing change control process and a good PSA, the negative headline draws better attention than the positive, which is that anyone could be charged incorrectly. That the store was able to fix it is also good to include, but it is an expected responsibility of the store to do so, not some positive spin.
Pheonixdown
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Each part of Prime just keeps getting shittier and shittier, this could definitely be a straw that broke the camel's back situation. Shipping stopped being 2-days every time during the pandemic, returns used to allow for pick up at your house are now drop off at a store. Music catalog is being slowly locked behind Unlimited, and now it's all station-ified so you can't even listen to what you want.
They said if you're buying solely based bubble color then it's based on peer pressure, there of course are other valid reasons for someone to choose one and there are also other bad reasons.
Have you considered switching to pickup when you can? pick what you want from the comfort of your home, drive to the store at the designated time, an employee has picked all your goods and it is brought out to you. Same price for you, more labor for the company to pay for.
You're headed towards the Star Trek episode "A Taste of Armageddon". I'd also note, that people losing a war without suffering recognizable losses are less likely to surrender to the victor.
I feel like it's ok to skip to optimizing the autonomous drone-killing drone.
You'll want those either way.
I just checked an Amazon purchase that had the option for a payment plan, my options were to use my Chase card affiliated with Amazon or Affirm which is a 3rd party that is offering the structured payment. Not sure what it looks like for others, but if it's similar, then Amazon wouldn't be doing anything bank-like with those payments.
You could do banner ads, shrink the video, randomly add a banner to top/bottom and a 2nd left/right. If you skip the ads, you skip the content too.
I'm expecting someone smart at Google to figure out how to encode ads as part of the video file as it is delivered, making it literally undifferentiatable in the data we receive, and then there's no way around it. They'll make millions in ads and billions licensing it out.
Your talk of providing estimates just reminds me of this scene from Star Trek TNG.
Geordi La Forge: I told the Captain I'd have this analysis done in an hour.
Scotty: How long will it really take?
Geordi La Forge: An hour!
Scotty: Oh, you didn't tell him how long it would 'really' take, did ya?
Geordi La Forge: Well, of course I did.
Scotty: Oh, laddie. You've got a lot to learn if you want people to think of you as a miracle worker.
It's not a coincidence, nobody wants to live near an airport let alone an international one, the noise level is insane. My grandparent's house is less than a half mile from the edge of one, and even with soundproofing, the dishes still set to rattling far too often. The airport was basically forced to buy out like half the neighborhood because it was so bad.