[dennisw]

The convenience store biz is EXCELLENT in Lackawanna, eh? He likely was ringing up a lot of transactions on a phony cash register that didn't tally up for the taxing authorities of New York State. Way this scam works is you use an honest cash register some of the time and the scam register at other times. By now there are probably ways of hacking an electronic cash register so you can just flip a switch so some transactions get recorded and some don't.

Haven't you ever wondered why immigrants tend to gravitate towards "cash businesses"?

[thinking]

Yes, I have wondered about this...the Koreans at the 7-11 and the Indians with run down Motels....

Years ago my wife worked at a bank...one day she said to me, why do the Indians (eastern types) visit their safety deposit boxes 4 to 5 times a day?...

[FITZ]

Pretty interesting. I know some hotels being run by immigrants only want cash too.