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Post by Butcher on Feb 11, 2024 14:14:44 GMT -6
Just got back from a trip to our Hy-Vee grocery store in the hood. Not where I like to shop but it is close to home. (half hour one way trip)Just like our last visit to this store the cashier messed up and we had to return all our purchaces from the truck back into the store to get the situation right. (if linda wasnt good at checking register recipts we would've missed the over charge) I will no longer darken the doorway to this store. I much prefer to shop at our local Fareway but they are not open on Sunday so we went to HV and walked the isles with persons of all colors wearing thier pajamas and bedroom slippers and the EBT cards to buy $10 a pound cuts of meat and chittlins. Sorry for this rant but I dont understand why even the simplist of tasks has to become so hard anymore. I blame it on technology. All the bells and whistles to make a human being not have to think about what they are doing. When I was a very young lad I learned to make change and do trade on an old NCR register like this. i.ytimg.com/vi/6Gre4cZ2ils/maxresdefault.jpg Try that today with those phone addicted youths of minds full of mush. Link didnt work. but you know the old ones I am talking about. Looked more lke a Vegus slot machine than a cash registor. |
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Post by kevinj54 on Feb 11, 2024 14:31:12 GMT -6
It is pretty sad about the young & the computers.
Awhile back me & buddy stopped fer coffee & some chow. When we checked out they gave us more change than we gave to pay the bill!!!
What a goat roping to get that explained to the idiot at the register. The idiot finally figgered out she typed in the wrong amount given so she just gave change according to the computer.
It did not even register that she was giving us more change than gave to pay the tab.
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Post by rustyfarmall on Feb 11, 2024 14:41:48 GMT -6
Only thing we get from Hy-Vee is the wife's prescriptions, and that is ONLY because the old pharmacy where we always did business closed their doors due to retirement.
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Post by Butcher on Feb 11, 2024 14:54:20 GMT -6
It is pretty sad about the young & the computers. Awhile back me & buddy stopped fer coffee & some chow. When we checked out they gave us more change than we gave to pay the bill!!! What a goat roping to get that explained to the idiot at the register. The idiot finally figgered out she typed in the wrong amount given so she just gave change according to the computer. It did not even register that she was giving us more change than gave to pay the tab. Yeah. I like buying something small with cash sometimes just to mess with a person. Sir; your bill is 4 bucks and 30 cents. Me; ok, here is a 5 dollar bill and a nickle. Sir; uhmmm wait, I have to go on break now. me; Ok, good luck in life, dipshit. |
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Post by kevinj54 on Feb 11, 2024 15:59:27 GMT -6
It is pretty sad about the young & the computers. Awhile back me & buddy stopped fer coffee & some chow. When we checked out they gave us more change than we gave to pay the bill!!! What a goat roping to get that explained to the idiot at the register. The idiot finally figgered out she typed in the wrong amount given so she just gave change according to the computer. It did not even register that she was giving us more change than gave to pay the tab. Yeah. I like buying something small with cash sometimes just to mess with a person. Sir; your bill is 4 bucks and 30 cents. Me; ok, here is a 5 dollar bill and a nickle. Sir; uhmmm wait, I have to go on break now. me; Ok, good luck in life, dipshit. Ya, that really confuses them!!!! Especially if ya flip the coin after they keyed the register... |
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Post by Erstwhile on Feb 11, 2024 16:27:06 GMT -6
I ain't allowed to participate in financial transactions nowadays. Me and the Bidiot suffer similar deficiencies in such, well, except that I know better.
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Post by diydave on Feb 11, 2024 16:59:17 GMT -6
I ain't allowed to participate in financial transactions nowadays. Me and the Bidiot suffer similar deficiencies in such, well, except that I know better. And you are spending YOUR OWN money...  |
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Post by haywood on Feb 14, 2024 11:06:03 GMT -6
My Wife Really digs the old early American full manual wood framed upright cash registers with the bell.
If we ever find one, we could afford to buy for her we would do it.
Those old machines have a cool factor and carry great childhood memories.
Old Metal ones are cool too! Depends on Era.
These youngsters are missing out on Historically significant Objects and Icons.
Lost in a weird world War.
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Post by billinohio on Feb 14, 2024 18:38:00 GMT -6
National Cash Register was a huge factory up in Dayton, and over the years, many of my family and neighbors worked there. NCR and various GM plants employed a lot of people around here. Those old cash registers were a mechanical marvel, everything was done with little gears. In the 60s the electronics came on hard and fast and NCR was obsolete practically overnight. My one cousin was a couple months away from retiring with a decent pension. He was a WW2 veteran. I still recall seeing him on the 6 o clock news, walking out the front gate after almost everybody was let go. He ended up getting a small pension and delivering newspapers in a Pinto (2 more things that are obsolete and gone and forgotten)
The NCR factory was huge, several blocks of multi-story brick buildings, impressive buildings, most of the buildings were linked together with tunnels under the roads, but, as far as I know, they are all gone now. You woulda thought somebody could have utilized the space.
Another one of my cousins was a maintenance man, and he was kept on to shut the place down. They had a fire and he got blamed for trying to weld a bunch of 2x4s together………I am betting the company went after some insurance money.
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