
H.I. #104: Fruitbooting
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The Conflict Between Employers and Employees
Brady Harren started his career as a copy boy. His job was to buy sandwiches and place bets on horses for the boss. He says he has confidence in his mathematical ability, but something's going wrong here. The big story that is being used as a really good case study for this gaming of the self-checkout system is I think it was a woman somewhere in England who photocopied loads and loads of bar codes for pot noodles. She finally got caught at a self-check out because she was scanning this really expensive coffee machine maker with a 60-pence pot noodle bar code on it. Clever girl bringing her own bar codes. Go big or go home.
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