Why Martha Saved Five Hundred Paper Receipts From Her Weekly Grocery Trips

for the missing inventory,” I said.

“Exactly,” Gerald said. “The software registers that an item left the store without being properly scanned, and the manual override lays the blame on whoever was logged into that till.”

He rubbed his eyes, looking at the sheer volume of paper spread across the yellow formica.

“The system uses an algorithm to detect continue reading …