+283 Unless you work as a cashier at a supermarket, you always wondered how the moving conveyer belt you set your groceries on knows when to stop. Is there a button? A sensor at the bottom? amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Are you kidding? There is a (invisable) laser at the end of the belt, when the beam gets blocked ie stuff got to the end of the belt, the belt deactivates. I thought everyone knew that.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

*invisible

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Haha, you've never played with the laser to make the belt start and stop?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It's obviously magic. Goddamn tooth fairy was out of work because kids don't put their teeth under their pillows anymore, so all the stores pay her in synthetic teeth to sit under the belts and stop them when your shit gets to the cashier. Just don't tell anyone I told you, because she doesn't like people knowing.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

noobs don't know

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I noticed the little laser that detected objects near the end of the conveyor belt a few weeks ago, I got super excited. It's like the ones people have in their garages so the door doesn't crush someone.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It's so much fun jumping the garage sensor and pretending to be Indiana Jones

by Anonymous 13 years ago

There's a big button on the side of the counter that the cashier hits with their hip or hand. I think... that's how it is in some stores over here.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

both? yes...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

There is a pedal , and only a pedal

by Anonymous 13 years ago

There is a pedal , last time I've seenl and there's an ad about conveyors

by Anonymous 13 years ago

the ones in my area use a button. . .

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I've seen a button, or the worker just touches the conveyor belt and it moves to them.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

When I was a kid I'd go and secretly mess with the sensor, so it would keep moving after all the groceries were gone. Nobody ever discovered me.. (:

by Anonymous 13 years ago

that's what its supposed to do... it only stops when the groceries reach the end.

by Anonymous 13 years ago