What edge cases trip up point-of-sale systems in tobacco, cannabis and other regulated goods, think of regulator api outage?

In tobacco, cannabis and other regulated goods watch for: regulator API outage; customer at the limit; package mis-weighed; recall; employee diversion. A system that cannot handle these will frustrate the business; the catalog's failsafe items address some generic cases.

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