What edge cases trip up point-of-sale systems in apparel and footwear retail, think of item scanned with wrong tag?

In apparel and footwear retail watch for: item scanned with wrong tag; return of an item bought at a different price; sale across two salespeople; layaway cancelled. A system that cannot handle these will frustrate the business; the catalog's failsafe items address some generic cases.

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