Total items purchased on your cash register receipt is a good thing

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When in a retail store, you purchase so many items that even you do not remember how many and the good thing about the checkout process in a retail store is, for the most part, they usually print the exact number of items you paid for so that you can do inventory on your purchase later and make sure you did not pay for something that was not your intention, like that bag of chips the first customer left behind and you ended up paying for it along with 100 or more other items. The list however, even though it does in fact count the exact number of items scanned, does it know how to collate the items that are the exact bar code? for instance, if I bought 10 cans of biscuits but they were scanned in the mix so that 5 were scanned at one time but the other 5 were intermittently scanned as they were mixed in with several other random items on the counter because they were not all scanned one by one together by the checker. The thing is, I do not think the system will give you an exact count of a specific product, but there may be a system that eventually does this. Would this improve the process and make the customer happier knowing that although she or he can not find their 10th can of biscuits but one is hiding under a pie shell in another bag, that the listing could print out that in fact canned biscuit no. 10 is listed as item 105 to make a complete count of ten cans of biscuits scanned? This sounds a bit petty I know but it is just a thought I had. I imagine the system is not that exact but below is a somewhat relevant article about how purchases at the retail end are processed to keep inventory levels and learn what the consumer wants on some level: The article is not exactly relevant to my post but is interesting to read.