What edge cases trip up point-of-sale systems in general merchandise and big-box stores, think of catalogue of 50,000 or more items?

In general merchandise and big-box stores watch for: catalogue of 50,000 or more items; recall of one batch; price-match disputes; serialised electronics returns. A system that cannot handle these will frustrate the business; the catalog's failsafe items address some generic cases.

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