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AI self-checkout bills a snack run at $8.5 billion

A Circle K AI self-checkout added an $8.5 billion Red Cross donation to a shopper's Gatorade order.

Ellsworth Toohey
Aug 07, 2026
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AI self-checkout — Harrison Keely / CC BY 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
AI self-checkout — Harrison Keely / CC BY 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)

A Circle K shopper posted a screenshot of an AI self-checkout screen that listed a few flavors of Gatorade at a few dollars apiece, then a line item of $8.5 billion for the American Red Cross, according to the New York Post. At the bottom, the machine offered to take a card or cash. "I jus…

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