Of course the important takeaway is that they could have lowered the beeps the WHOLE TIME.

So I caught a clip of John Oliver talking to Seth Meyers about the queen running down the bloody curtain and joining the Choir Invisible, etc, and in it he talks about a supermarket chain making the beeps of the registers quieter out of respect for the dead lady and how ridiculous that was, and I thought, "No disrespect, but you have clearly never worked retail."

See, here's the thing. ( The thing is... )