UK supermarket scales go 404 on shoppers
26-08-2026 12:00 via theregister.com

UK supermarket scales go 404 on shoppers

BORK!BORK!BORK! The scales are empty, and so what else can there be but a 404? Today's entry in the pantheon of bork takes us to the UK city of Coventry, where a set of scales at a Tesco store shows the number 404. Spotted by eagle-eyed Register reader Rowan Archer, the scales have logged off and done the computing equivalent of popping down to the pub. It's an odd number to choose. Hopefully it's a device identifier rather than a message code. After all, netizens have long associated the number
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