Greg Egan on Nostr: Today in the supermarket I scanned 2 packs of flour … and one of them was listed on ...
Today in the supermarket I scanned 2 packs of flour … and one of them was listed on the receipt as frozen raspberries. So that must have been a genuine barcode misread, rather than just incorrect data in a product database. The barcodes looked fine, so maybe the reader glitched.
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