By the way, Valentines Day and Easy-Scan do not mix very well.
All of the balloons, and a lot of the flowers, have little tags the Floral Shoppe has written on, instead of the usual bar codes.
The tags include a PLU number and a price.
The poor customers try to scan the tags, instead of putting in the PLU number.
And even if they do put in the PLU number, it still doesn't work correctly with the Easy Scan registers, because the price has to be put in by the attendant.
That's how I spent most of my red-shirt day yesterday.
Today, I'm wearing standard register lincoln green.
I wonder if it would be correct to ask some of those hapless guys, who will come to my register bearing flowers, balloons, cards and candy - "Does she really put out for chocolate?"
Because if she doesn't, that's a lot of money being spent on what, exactly?
Valentine's Day brings out the cynic in me.