Asda shopper baffled as 'world's priciest' cabbage scans as £700 on self-service till

An Asda shopper was shocked after a self-service till priced a red cabbage at £700.

Michael Wright was at a self-service checkout in the West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire store when a till valued a red cabbage at hundreds of pounds on Tuesday, November 15.

Mr Wright, would-be owner of the world's most expensive cabbage, explained the team's barcode had been crumpled up, and as a result, would not scan properly.

But when a helpful Asda worker manually typed in the barcode's numbers a price of £700.92 came up, reports Nottinghamshire Live.

"The Asda employee had to type in the numbers under the barcode which generated the price on the screen as £700.92," Mr Wright said.

The red cabbage would have set the shopper back more than £700 if he'd gone on to pay (Getty Images)

He added the episode provided a moment of levity for surrounding shoppers. In the end, the only option was pick up another cabbage, at a "more reasonable" 74p price tag.

Mr Wright added: "After much toing and froing and giggles from fellow shoppers, I had to get another one which would scan at the much more reasonable 74p. It provided a talking point in the store."

Earlier this year, a Tesco self-service glitch saw one customer scan £500 worth of food scan for under £100.

Several customers reported having the same issue.

One shopper took to Facebook to share that their totals were in minus figures, due to the system error. This meant that the shopper ended up with a total of -£150.75 on just seven items.

When a helpful Asda worker manually typed in the barcode's numbers a price of £700.92 came up (Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Despite the clear error, the customer claims they were able to check out, BirminghamLive reports. They said: "I didn’t think it would work - I was sure it would autocorrect at checkout. Massive glitch on self-serve."

In response to the post, other users said they have had similar experiences - but said the calculation corrected itself. One Tesco shopper said: "This happened to me on a shop. Got over £500 worth in the trolley but came up at just under £100, corrected at self-scan, and I asked why, but they had no idea as to why it was scanning that way.

"They scanned everything again on a different scanner and it still came up cheap but they said they couldn't let me have it. So I just said I no longer wanted it."

Mirror.co.uk has approached Asda for comment.