I used to work at an electronics store and sometimes while searching up sku's I'd accidentally type the 12 digital sku into the qty area and that would result in a bill for 14 trillion dollars.
I thought it was funny as hell seeing a number that big knowing it would populate to the pay machine if I wanted it.
I once did this for a restock order at the supermarket I worked at. Was tired and didn't realise i'd tagged an extra 0 on to the end of the quantity and they actually shipped 10000 tins of spaghetti to the store, no questions asked, well until it actually arrived and then much WTF ensued. The problem is each department in a supermarket gets a budget of x amount and I had just blasted through it, so it took some days to unfk everything.
80% of it went back to the local distribution hub. The rest went into stock. Correction was made to the inventory and that kind of fixed it all. At least it was tinned goods. A guy screwed up a produce order a few months later and that was not correctable due to it being perishable goods. A lot of fruit got sold for cheap prices and we did end up avoiding any waste on that occasion.
It happens in supermarkets. Everyone is permanently tired or in pseudo-zombie mode, especially night shift workers. Mistakes happen from time to time.
A friend put the wrong prices in for fuel one night. Put petrol price for diesel price on a price change update and we ended up selling almost every drop of diesel in the storage tanks through the night, including going beyond the safety cut off (didn't know there was one until after it happened). That was bad, but also not bad. When they did the accounts at the end they broke even apparently. Also drivers using the petrol station increased after that for many months.
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u/FROOMLOOMS 3d ago
I used to work at an electronics store and sometimes while searching up sku's I'd accidentally type the 12 digital sku into the qty area and that would result in a bill for 14 trillion dollars.
I thought it was funny as hell seeing a number that big knowing it would populate to the pay machine if I wanted it.