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I'm sharing this because any reduction in unnecessary packaging waste is good for the planet - and because I think laser-etching avocados is funny. ๐Ÿ™‚

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[โ€“] knobbysideup 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

How do you scan them at checkout? Yes you could do manual entry/lookup. That could be said about everything though.

[โ€“] SpeakinTelnet 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

4770, most cashiers knows that code by heart

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

This thread seems to be populated by competent people. I would like everyone to step back for a moment however and consider how many incompetent people exist.

Think about self-serve checkouts, and how despite items being clearly labeled and the machines having item lookups, people still struggle constantly. Now imagine how many more people would struggle without the label.

Think about the employee wrangling the self checkout dealing with increased frustrated customers. Think about how fickle customers can be, throwing up their hands at a minor obstacle and deciding to just buy avocados from now on from the store across the street that still uses stickers. You know these people exist. You know they exist in number. So do markets, so the laser etching is mitigating the problems they'll have from removing stickers.

[โ€“] SpeakinTelnet 3 points 6 months ago

I get where you're coming from but I'll just say most fruits and vegetables already don't have any stickers on them here (Canada) and people have been surviving fine. The only time I see a sticker is when it's bundled in a pack.

If someone struggle that much he usually goes to a cashier instead of the self-checkout.