Buying garlic is complicated

So today I went into checkers to buy some garlic and other ingredients for dinner. But when I placed the garlic on the scale to be weighed for that sticker, the guy said it was too small. I could see the R6.45 on the machine but it wouldn't print a sticker. He said I needed to add more and that its too cheap to print a sticker.

This has happened to me before and I left it because then it was R3 something for some chillis. But today it has really gotten on my nerves. So besides everything being super expensive I cant even buy small quantities of something that will go off since I don't use it that often. Can we actually buy anything anymore thats under R10? Cause what the fuck?

So I left without any garlic and will now have a much less flavourful dinner and a sour mood. Scams everywhere mxm.