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There is an interesting article on scanners in the lastest issue of US
News and World Report (dealing with congressional responces to scanner
inaccuracies). (Can't remember exact date. There's a guy sitting in a
bed with the caption "Patient Heal Thyself" or some such thing...)

Anyway, the report found that something like 9% of all scans were 
inaccurate in some way, and either 66% or 88% of those scans resulted
in an error favoring the store.

Meijer, of course (and other stores too--is it the law?) awards people
with extra money if they find an inaccuracy. I forget the actual amount,
but it _is_ significant, as I distictly recall (having worked in the
marking and receiving rooms of a couple Meijer stores) being told to
price everything very carefully (we verified a lot by computer) otherwise
we lose a lot of money.

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