"Like many of us after the excesses of the festive period, this device is in recovery. Perhaps one sprout too many? It's hard to tell, though the error code 0xc0000001 suggests something may have gone wrong with the device's disk. We'd guess a shutdown was attempted and Windows said "nope," opting instead for Recovery. We're sure that every shopper carries around a handy USB recovery disk and keyboard to plug into the afflicted device. However, something like that would certainly qualify as an unexpected item in the bagging area."
"There is also the possibility that the store, in this case a Marks & Spencer in the West Midlands, has Extended Security Updates enabled. We're not sure that equipping stores with self-service Point Of Sale devices or self-printing labels for bags of fruit and vegetables is necessarily a good thing. Powering such a machine with Microsoft Windows is really unnecessary for something that needs to do one job really well, instead of a multitude of tasks ... less well."
Microsoft's flagship OS can run anything from mini PCs to large workstations and servers, but using it for simple grocery-scale tasks is overkill. Weighing fruit and vegetables moved from mechanical scales to digital self-service systems in supermarkets. A Marks & Spencer self-service weighing device displayed error code 0xc0000001, implying a possible disk problem after an attempted shutdown triggered Windows Recovery. The machine likely runs Windows 10 and may rely on Extended Security Updates. Customers do not typically carry USB recovery media or keyboards for in-store devices. Single-purpose, simpler hardware would be more reliable for scale operations.
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