Yeah. Fallout 3 was set 200 years after the bombs fell.

I think it’s *very* telling that they didn’t show outside at all.

Yeah. Someone in this thread pointed out that it looks like they moved back the unsealing date by 5 years, but even still, 25 years after the bombs hit, and we saw how bad DC was. Gonna be interesting to see what this is going to be come E3.

Check the D/T on the PipBoy: Oct. 27, 2102 @ 6:34am. Almost 25 years exactly

I’d be surprised if your character makes it 100 ft outside the Vault without immediately dying from radiation poisoning.

You built both your sanctuaries on the same island?

Vault 76 was a control vault with 500 residents, set to open two decades after the bombs fell, so do with that information what you will.

Like, quite literally, the total cash in the machines is $3-600 less per count (in our case, in the mid-00s, twice a day) than the computer says it should be. Say the machines record $5400 of sales; total CC plus cash would equal out to be like $5000. This is mostly because of false refunds from the currency scanners.…

It’s probably not often that your insider knowledge of grocery self-scan machines drops a jaw, but it def just did.

I have no actual statistical evidence (other than once being a male aged 16-24), but yeah, I believe that the number of condoms and pregnancy tests stilted decreased. However, condom sales are a much smaller percentage of total sales than, say, bakery or meat.

That’s your answer for everything.

NOT FOR LACK OF TRYING

I recently bought three items I needed for a quick meal, green beans, a garlic bulb, and some tomatoes. The young kid at the checkout had to ask me what each of them were. He didn’t know any of them. Very sad.

YOU WOULDN’T DOWNLOAD AN AVOCADO!

Well-trained being the operative term here. I find one of those for every 3 grocery stores I go to. The rest are old ladies who scan items at the speed of smell.

As a former bag boy (at an A&P, thank you very much), I disagree. Most cashiers are so slow and sloppy that I always am able to scan and bag faster, without mixing my colds and room temp items or putting cans on top of eggs.
I would think that this would be a generic life-skill, like making an omelet or folding a…

Totally agree on all of this. Individually cashiers are faster, but stores don’t want to hire enough to ensure that there are no lines. So they put in (sometimes literally *dozens* of) self-scanning machines which alleviates the lines for just about everyone. If you still need a cashier they’re there, but for people…

Former grocery manager here. Actually, a well-trained cashier is both faster and costs less than the self-scan, even at a $10-15/hr salary (which is still low, but it’s the standard rate). Self-scans are seen as a convienence to the customer and always have been marketed that way. There’s less presumed waiting time…

I’m here personally for the quadratic equation.

Ah, the market decided!