Agree with J Parker it's an item count . might catch a thief but that's store security responsibility.
Some do check and some just give it a quick glance
Agreed number count, I've missed an item once and rang up an item twice, they caught it both times..
It is to make sure everything rang up, they count the number of items on your cart against the number of items on your receipt
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