At This Walmart, Three And A Half Pretty Much Equals Five

I thought the idea behind having all of these computers around was that they were supposed to do the math for us. Correctly. A Reddit user snapped this picture of some fuzzy math at the self-checkout. Either the computer thinks that someone buying a pile of Lunchables and gum isn’t very quick on the uptake, or something is very wrong here.

We reached out to Walmart to find out what the actual situation is, and will update this post when we find out.

Walmart Math, How many people could be loosing to walmart on this? [Reddit]

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