Whole-bean coffee follies

The Canandaigua Weggers has a display for selling whole-bean coffee.
Giant see-through plastic tube-bins dispense whole-bean coffee into bags, which you weigh, and a printed label is dispensed the checkout clerk can scan.
You can grind the whole-bean coffee at home, or right there at the display.
Since our coffee grinder tanked a while ago, I use the store grinders.
Okay, dispense “Seattle Dark” into one-pound bag, and pour into grinder.
Walk away. Grinding takes about five minutes; enough time to shop other parts of the store.
Lately I’ve had to help the grinder.
The whole-bean coffee is not feeding.
I don’t like doing it. It involves putting your hand in the chute, and shoving the coffee-beans toward the grinder.
Buy bananas and milk and oranges, and walk back to grinder. —It’s only ground about one-tenth of the coffee.
Okay, we’re looking at a long and arduous process here; shoving remaining coffee at grinder.
I almost gave up. Nine-tenths of what I poured in has to be shoved toward the grinder.
“I always hafta help this thing,” I say to a pimply young store employee.
Didn’t register. Keep shoving.
Finally after ten long minutes of helping, it’s ground it all.
Remove bag, and place on scale.
“9-8-5-2-2” or whatever it is.
“PLU not found,” it says.
Oh yeah, the scale.
“Beep-beep-beep-beep-beep!”
“PLU not found.”
Well, of course not. It reads “9-8-8-5-2.” (The number displays on a screen.)
The “eight” button registered twice — musta breathed on it.
Watch carefully. Attempt 9-8-5-2-2.
“9-?” “PLU not found.”
CLEAR!
Try again. 9-8-5-2-2.
“9-8-?” “PLU not found.”
CLEAR!
Concentrate. Got it this time.
“Print label.”
NOTHING!
Okay, try again.
“9-?” “PLU not found.”
9-8-5-2-2.
Print.
NOTHING!
I give up!
The checkout clerk looks for my label.
“I tried to price that, but your vaunted machine refused to do it.”

• “Canandaigua” (“cannon-DAY-gwuh”) is a small city nearby where we live in Western NY. The city is also within a rural town called “Canandaigua.” The name is Indian, and means “Chosen Spot.” —It’s about 15 miles away.
• “Weggers” is Wegmans, a large supermarket-chain based in Rochester we often buy groceries at. They have a store in Canandaigua.
• I don’t know what “PLU” stands for, but apparently “9-8-5-2-2” is a valid product code.