Remember the old days when a cashier ‘rang things up’ on a manual cash register, (or even with a pad and pencil and made change out a cigar box full of coins and bills), and could make change without a computer telling him / her how much to give?
Yes sir.
Times sure have changed.
On the other hand, it is Target, so I don’t care what happens to them, or the people who still choose to shop there.
We’re talking old old. Back in 89 I went to a McDs in Sunnyside Queens when the registers went out. Such was the skill of the staff that even when the mgr told the staff to round to the nearest zero and forgo sales tax, he still had to go across the street to Radio Shack and buy ten calculators for his staff. So the lack of register skill goes back aways.
.....and could count your change back to you! Now the register tells them how much to give you in change, and they just hand you a wad of money. The only way to assure yourself it’s the correct change is to stand there and count it yourself....which I never do, out of courtesy for whoever is behind me in line.
“could make change without a computer”
A teenager working at a fast food store waited on me when that function of their system went kaflooey. All the other dolts at registers stood there with their mouths hanging open. I was in his line. He checked me out, counting out my change without missing a beat. I asked, “Home schooled?” He said, “Yes.”
Stopped to grab a breakfast a McD’s one morning. Their system was down, but still selling stuff. I asked the counter girl about it, and she said she was doing it mostly from memory with the aid of a calculator.
I said to her, “You do know that the [meals] sales tax is %5?”
“What’s that mean?” she asked.
“Multiply the total by 1.05.”
She looked up behind her to get a price, and worked the calculator. Guess she was so used to hitting item buttons, she didn’t know the prices, just the totals.
“Thanks” she said, recognizing the result.
Obviously, with thousands of “bar-coded” et al POS, it’s a bit different...
D.E. Turner & Company Hardware Store.
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