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u/digitlikeaworm Feb 07 '23
At least you saved $5.76
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u/GetsMeEveryTimeBot Feb 07 '23
Actually, aside from the glitch with the mangos, the rest of the prices are pretty low. Where is this place?
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u/Aeronaut91 Feb 07 '23
He bought 459 mangos at $1.19 each. What's the usual process 459 mangos
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u/Fuzzy_Inevitable9748 Feb 08 '23 •
Damn and it was buy 460 mangos and get 1 free day.
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u/444unsure Feb 08 '23
That's what they call a loss leader. They were losing money up until that 460th mango
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u/accentadroite_bitch Feb 07 '23
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.
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u/t-antony
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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
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u/NH16550 Feb 07 '23 •
Sheeesh I live in New York and that’s nothing. $4800/month for mangos, minimum.
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u/_Alabama_Man Feb 08 '23
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.
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u/Shart_InTheDark Feb 08 '23
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.
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u/sarcasticbaldguy Feb 07 '23
You may have to sacrifice data for mangos. It's a hard decision, we've all been there.
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u/elvis8mybaby Feb 07 '23
Could always buy candles.
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u/Doogleyboogley Feb 07 '23
NO! candles are no substitute for mangos, they taste waxy!
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u/613663141 Feb 07 '23
Bold of you to assume the mangos are for eating and not for some... nefarious purpose.
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u/seppukucoconuts Feb 07 '23
Are you referring to my mango catapult?
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u/greenslam Feb 08 '23
What aren't you investing in trebuchets? They are the superior siege weapon.
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u/kcasper Feb 08 '23
Oh please, my mango air canon can hit targets twice as far away.
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u/arandom_person- Feb 08 '23
psh, a mere air cannon? the superior use of mangos are via orbital bombardment.
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u/Doogleyboogley Feb 07 '23
Again...NO! candles are no substitute for mangos, they taste waxy!
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u/captainbruisin Feb 07 '23
So wait....you're telling me lip smackers aren't edible? Well, I never.
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u/TreeHugger_Guy Feb 07 '23
Mangoes are edible as well, so just dont get food and you'll have 200 more for mangoes.
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u/Fellow--Felon Feb 07 '23
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
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u/incarnuim Feb 07 '23 •
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.....
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u/heycanwediscuss Feb 07 '23 edited Feb 07 '23
That's literally how a lot of business coaches "entrepreneurs " sound
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u/Senior_Mittens Feb 07 '23
Mango, $2ea. Plant it and in 3 years you’ll have a full tree. Let’s say you harvest 50 mangos from the tree, that’s $100 in mangos. Soon, in about 35-50years, you’ll have made your money back and started a mango orchard.
It’s simple math, really.
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u/asciimo71 Feb 07 '23
with that amount of mango seeds you can pile them up to build a mango core cave
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u/ProDigit Feb 07 '23
Or plant the seed and in 4 to 7 years you'll have mangoes that don't cost $2k with inflation.
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u/Fauster Feb 07 '23
It's good to have a truck with towing capacity to transport your mangos, until you realize how many magos you can buy if you sell it.
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u/hippiecamper313 Feb 07 '23
Mangos are food just buy an extra 200$ worth of mangos and go on a all mango diet
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u/Milotorou Feb 07 '23
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.
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u/Marcilliaa Feb 07 '23
spend less on mangoes
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u/aggravated_patty Feb 07 '23
no
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u/blitzwig Feb 07 '23
Stop paying rent - buy a mango big enough to live inside.
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u/rustle_branch Feb 07 '23
Guess im gonna go read dril tweets for an hour thanks
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u/horse_renoir13 Feb 07 '23
If anything we need to allocate more expenses to the mango budget
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u/NeilDeCrash Feb 07 '23
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.
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u/Vero_Goudreau Feb 07 '23
LPT Save the pits and build yourself a new house with them. Bam! Return on investment THROUGH THE LITERAL ROOF!
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u/LabanTwissell Feb 07 '23
Buy scented candles instead of Mango, they are more nutritional and you can get different flavors which makes it a less boring diet!
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u/gargeug Feb 07 '23
Build a house from mango seeds. Boom, $800 a month more for mangos.
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u/WelcomingOutpost
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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
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u/princessarielle6 Feb 07 '23
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
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u/Fetlocks_Glistening Feb 07 '23
That's some fancy melon there
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u/littlebitofsuffering Feb 07 '23
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.
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u/dcux Feb 07 '23
$40/strawberry, $200/melon, and $70k for a pair of melons at auction. WTF.
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u/Master_Jason Feb 07 '23
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!
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u/winterworldx Feb 07 '23
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.
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u/kittyinasweater Feb 07 '23
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.
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u/646blahblahblah Feb 07 '23
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.
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u/AuxiliaryPriest Feb 07 '23
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.
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u/aldenhg Feb 07 '23
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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u/DizzySignificance491 Feb 07 '23
marionberries
I definitely thought this was going to be a joke about crack
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u/malenkylizards Feb 07 '23
Now that is a boob job.
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u/PanJaszczurka Feb 07 '23
But the melons are square.
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u/quick1brahim Feb 07 '23
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.
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u/relefos Feb 07 '23
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
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u/grantrules Feb 07 '23
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.
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u/TAforScranton Feb 07 '23
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. It’s 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, jalapeños, and sugar snap peas.
I’ll 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 didn’t grow on our own, we could get at a local fruit stand. Nothing will ever compare to home grown produce.
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u/HendrixChord12 Feb 07 '23
I was advertised Japanese strawberries grown in NJ yesterday. $18 for 4. Not as crazy, but still.
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u/the4thbelcherchild Feb 07 '23
$40 is cheap.
Paul Hollywood (Great British Baking Show) trying a £350 strawberry in Japan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=895DfGuoqvU
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u/mpegfour Feb 07 '23
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.
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u/phollox Feb 07 '23
Melon like Boobs? Because 15k is not a bad price for a melon job
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u/Specialist_totembag Feb 07 '23
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...
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u/DadsRGR8 Feb 07 '23
“and a fancy boob job would it be for about 5K USD. 15K would it be a REALLY FANCY boob job.”
Or a regular fancy boob job for 3 boobs. Wait… that’s not right, boobs come in pairs. So if it’s 5K for 2 boobs, then 15K would get you… um, multiply by 2… divide by 3 and carry the one boob… idk, I’m not good at math.
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u/ataxi_a Feb 07 '23
You can't just casually carry the one boob. It takes at least two people to walk abreast.
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u/frotc914 Feb 07 '23
Americans actually do this. They basically get cosmetic surgery and a vacation in Brazil for the price of the surgery in the US.
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u/Square_Picture_659 Feb 07 '23
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.
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u/TheRealHowardStern Feb 07 '23
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
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u/GODDESS_OF_CRINGE__ Feb 07 '23
Said from a cardboard box in an alley: "Hmm, maybe I should have got a refund..."
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u/Sohgin Feb 07 '23
But then you would have to confront someone. There might be yelling. It's better this way.
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u/bloodfist Feb 07 '23
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.
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u/Express_Bath Feb 07 '23
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.
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u/jmoney-56 Feb 07 '23
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 didn’t know it was $.79/lb. It’s 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.
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u/Sparowl Feb 07 '23
I was at Home Depot picking up some stuff to finish up a shelf, and was joking with one of the employees that I’d love to pick up a mahogany board that was sitting nearby, but couldn’t justify it.
So said “why? It’s only $20.”
I kinda laughed (mahogany is $20 a board/foot. It was a 8 foot board. So…$160) and said “you’d better check again.”
She scrunched up her face, walked over and scanned the tag “Yeah, $20.”
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 would’ve stocked my shop with mahogany. I would’ve driven to other Home Depot’s in the area to check if they had the same error. My wife and I would’ve had to park in the driveway for awhile, because I would’ve filled my garage with it if I could’ve.
Ah, to dream.
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u/malenkylizards Feb 07 '23
Could have done up your whole apartment in rich mahogany at prices like that! Imagine the smell 🤤 people would think you were kind of a big deal.
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u/Sparowl Feb 07 '23
Wood paneling. Bookshelves. Kitchen table. Chairs. End tables. Tv stand. Bed frame. Couch.
My window sills would’ve been mahogany.
My front door would’ve been mahogany.
I don’t know if I’d have had enough to redline my house, but it would’ve been a consideration!
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u/pdxscout Feb 07 '23
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.
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u/Neosporinforme Feb 07 '23
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.
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u/walkonstilts Feb 07 '23
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 didn’t process.
Customer was surprisingly chill considering the hold stayed on his card for a full business day before it disappeared.
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u/timtucker_com Feb 07 '23
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.
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u/MFoy Feb 07 '23
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.
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u/Agnostalypse Feb 07 '23
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.
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u/Deedsman Feb 07 '23
Plus additional credit fee for the business to run the refund.
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u/livens Feb 07 '23
Oh trust me, $15k would NEVER go through on any of my cards.
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u/princessarielle6 Feb 07 '23
$15 extra wouldn't go on mine some weeks
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u/Deedsman Feb 07 '23
My mortgage was processed twice one month last year. That was fun month for me for sure!
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u/NorthImpossible8906 Feb 07 '23
and you would have gotten away with too, if it wasn't for those meddling kids.
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u/Drains_1 Feb 07 '23
I once accidentally charged some guy for 999 cups of coffee when he only bought 1 at a gas station when i was a dumb 15 year old.
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u/Le_Faucon Feb 07 '23
Who the fuck swipes his card after beeing told that the total is over 15,000$ at the grocery store.
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u/sergius64 Feb 07 '23
Likely busy people that aren't listening. Checking out is on autopilot for most people after all.
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u/monkeybugs Feb 07 '23
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?"
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u/OmgzPudding Feb 07 '23
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.
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u/InformationKey3816 Feb 07 '23
$600 for eggs seems almost reasonable these days.
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u/sonofaresiii Feb 07 '23
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.
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u/cj_h Feb 07 '23
4590 is corn, mangoes are 4959
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u/AbsolutelyUnlikely Feb 07 '23
Wait, codes are consistent between different grocery stores?
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u/fredbrightfrog Feb 07 '23
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)
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u/chemicalxv Feb 07 '23
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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u/Tricky-Move-2000 Feb 07 '23
I worked at a grocery store over 25 years ago and will never forget 4011. Weird what our brains keep.
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u/elmz Feb 07 '23
Price look-up codes is an international standard, maintained by the International Federation for Produce Standards.
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u/Zeno_Fobya Feb 07 '23
This is what is blowing my mind
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u/diox8tony Feb 07 '23
The stickers have the numbers printed on them from the manufacturer, so the store doesn't have much choice. The numbers are standardized mostly.
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u/javaman131 Feb 07 '23
This makes way more sense I was thinking who the hell buys 459 mangos
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u/tard24 Feb 07 '23
This is exactly what happened. This is a repost and the original post started this is what happened.
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u/meSuPaFly Feb 07 '23
I always scan my receipt. It also helps if you remember the things that were on sale to confirm you got the discounts.
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u/arovercai Feb 07 '23
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...
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u/idiskfla Feb 07 '23
Had no idea there were industry standard codes for things like mangoes
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u/Augustqueen189 Feb 07 '23
Yes all fruit it standard. Bananas are 4011.
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u/Jaxsom12 Feb 07 '23
Until the day I die or lose my mind I will always remember bananas being 4011. Rang them up so many times at Walmart
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u/AWandMaker Feb 07 '23
If you look at the little stickers you have to peel off of apples, bananas, and everything, there’s a four digit number (unless it’s organic then it has a 94 or 90 in front, I think). That’s the code for that fruit 🙂
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u/DaveOTN Feb 07 '23
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
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u/explodingtuna Feb 07 '23
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?
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u/RogueBigfoot Feb 07 '23 •
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.
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u/ccaccus Feb 07 '23
6.67 seconds to swipe all 459 mangoes. At the end, she'd be going 1015 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.
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u/guy_fieri_on_drugs Feb 07 '23
How many seconds before the cashier bursts into flames?
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u/Muddycarpenter Feb 08 '23
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.
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Assuming she can't go faster than the speed of light, how long would it take then?
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u/ccaccus Feb 08 '23 edited Feb 08 '23
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.
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u/ninjase Feb 08 '23
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.
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u/Morthra Feb 08 '23
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.
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u/danieljoeblack Feb 08 '23
Apparently it's 6.666666666666659 according to a simulation I wrote here:
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u/GodzlIIa Feb 07 '23
So time to swipe mangoes is like 1+1 * .85+1 * .852 etc etc. So its a geometric sum, a1 = 1, r = .85, n = 459.
So a1(1-rn)/(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.
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u/BlueTeale Feb 07 '23
I've been looking for the secret deodorant but can never find it. Nobody will tell me what aisle either
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This is just ripped from Twitter with a title that the Twitter poster ripped from the original comments. The internet ouroboros rolls on.
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u/Sarah_withanH Feb 07 '23
I knew this looked so familiar!!! The comments are even really similar. I thought I was crazy.
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u/Octavus Feb 07 '23
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.
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u/TraditionalRecover29 Feb 07 '23
Did they not think that almost 800 bucks might have been a little high before they paid?
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u/Greghole Feb 07 '23
Sometimes you just get into the habit of tapping without reading the screen first. I once paid $1088.88 for a sandwich at Subway because their 8 button was sticky. Fortunately the manager gave me a full refund the next day even though I didn't have the receipt. He said someone would have remembered if a guy came in and bought a hundred sandwiches.
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u/EssayOnAPostcard Feb 07 '23
This I why I am glad the contactless tap limit is £100 here. Anything more and you have to insert the card and enter your pin; gives you a lot more time to realise any mistakes!
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u/ILoveEmeralds Feb 07 '23
Mf bought 500$ worth of mangos
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u/stump2003 Feb 07 '23
Well if he didn’t, who would?
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u/ExperienceHendrix Feb 07 '23
This guy mangos
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u/BDIDude Feb 07 '23
“I can eat 549 mangos.”
“Ain’t no man can eat 549 mangos…”
“My boy says he can eat 549 mangos, he can eat 549 mangos!”
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u/Best_Ad_3595 Feb 07 '23
He’s the kinda guy they have math problems on for children
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u/Beavshak Feb 07 '23
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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u/Best_Ad_3595 Feb 07 '23
His kids probably don’t understand the problem so he’s gonna force feed these mangos until they pop or solve the problem.
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u/Few-Tour9826 Feb 07 '23
Got dang that’s a lot of mangos!
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u/slimjimmy613 Feb 07 '23
No your family has a mango problem lol
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u/blitzlurker Feb 07 '23
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?
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u/Few-Statistician8740 Feb 07 '23
Then they wouldn't be complaining about their 500 dollar mango run.
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u/SpaceRoxy Feb 07 '23
You're the person we always read about in math problems, aren't you? If Dave has 459 mangoes...
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u/OoohItsAMystery Feb 07 '23
If those mangoes weren't full of coke you got ripped off.
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u/SnowRook Feb 07 '23
You are paying WAY too much for mangoes, man. Who’s your mango guy?
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u/MaximumExtension4951 Feb 07 '23
Go easy on the BANANAS Go easy on the BLUEBERRIES Go hard on them MANGOS!!
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u/Quirky-Front5532 Feb 07 '23
Those mangos better, cut the grass, fill the gas, wash my ass and take out the trash
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u/futureislookinstark Feb 07 '23
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.
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