I broke Giant’s handheld scanner system by only buying two things
Found on Ars Technica on Wednesday, 15 January 2020
To cut down on abuse, there's a small, random chance of any given transaction being audited.
This system has a problem. Several, actually, but the key problem for me was that an audit requires seven items. No matter how many you actually buy.
The employee interface verified that my cart contained two (2) items. She scanned both. It verified that those two items were ones I had scanned. And then it told her that she needed to scan five more items to complete the audit, because the audit requires seven items to be scanned.
For some strange reason this sounds like a real life world story written by Monty Python: "Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out."