Tesco changing Wording at express checkouts.

Zinger549

Alot of people on here have said that the express (basket) checkouts at Tesco should say 10 item or fewer instead of 10 items or less. Their now changing the signs to "up to 10 items".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7590440.stm

Ivan_Konstantinov

never used it,but do they stop scanning after 10 items, if there are another 3 or 4 small items left?

thumbelina

Tesco may have made a boo-boo here. See this post
http://virtuallinguist.typepad.com/the_virtual_linguist/2008/08/tesco-and-10-it.html

AmyGroovy3

so should it be up to and including 10 items?

Halloway

thumbelina wrote: »

Tesco may have made a boo-boo here. See this post
http://virtuallinguist.typepad.com/the_virtual_linguist/2008/08/tesco-and-10-it.html

Partially. I disagree with the article insofar that the correct grammar is '10 items or fewer' and the example cannot be compared with the 'six weeks or less' example because the former refers to 10 discrete items and the latter to a continuous period of time. But it is correct in saying that 'up to 10 items' is even worse than '...or less' because whilst it is grammatically correct, it introduces an ambiguity, namely whether the 'up to' includes or excludes 10 or more items.

What, I wonder, is wrong with 'No more than 10 items'? I expect it's too negative for mouthbreathing marketing types.

[Deleted User]

This is news?!?!?

adamhodg

Has been changed overnight at my tesco.

Debt_Free_Dreamer

What a waste of money!! Changing all those signs.

DCFC79

To be honest i didnt see a problem with the old wording, i undersdtood it,

Princess_Coupon

Grammatically correct and unambiguous.[EMAIL="dimitri@bethere.co.uk"][/EMAIL]