Self-service Checkouts Spreading Across Japanese Supermarkets

More Japanese supermarkets are being equipped with self-service checkouts, so that customers can scan and pay for goods themselves.

The checkouts work by using bar code information to get product weight as well as price. Customers scan the items and place them in a shopping bag mounted on a set of scales, which checks that the [...]

16 Melons Got Knifed Outside Supermarket

Its summer time and eating juicy melons is a good way to cool off. But someone seems to really hate the fruit because someone slashed 16 melons outside a supermarket in Yamanashi Prefecture.

Here’s a video of the incident being reported on Asahi News:

Source: Japan Probe
Asahi news must have seriously ran out of news reports to [...]

Seppuku In The Supermarket

Here’s a scary and yet interesting piece of news: Of all the places you can think of, a lady decided that she would commit suicide via seppuku in the supermarket.

She had stuck the knife in her belly and while being carried away by the paramedics, she confessed that she did it to herself.
And guess where [...]

Egg-citing Discovery: An Egg Inside An Egg!

What is the chance of you finding an egg inside another egg? Apparently one in several million eggs, and one lucky housewive actually came across such an “egg-citing” discovery.

This egg within another egg was bought from a normal supermarket in Kyoto recently.
According to a spokeperson from the poultry research division at the Gifu Prefectural Livestock [...]