On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 12:57 PM Björn Helgason <[email protected]> wrote: > We do not need many outlets with cashiers anymore.
And, yet, the cashiers at local franchises I visit frequently are so often having to work around failures in their register system... (These are the sort who tend to deal in fresh food - products where I'm not seeing serious competition from online systems.) So... is this "We do not need" statement a copy of some lame excuse for shoddy register systems? Or are shoddy register systems instead a consequence of people investing based on that idea? Or, are both happening and this is a self-reinforcing idea? My training suggests that stuff like this doesn't happen unless someone sets out to make it happen. But that doesn't mean I understand the goals of the people who would be responsible... Mind you - the registers *usually* work. So we can presumably mostly rely on them. But they also exhibit characteristics which suggest that there's people responsible for building them out who -- at best -- are sloppy and/or clueless. Anyways.. I should probably appreciate the optimism, but I am disturbed that we do not seem to be able to grapple with the difficulties. Thanks, -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
