Re: Note to Self: Never Buy Cough Syrup at CVS

Scott in SoCal wrote:
On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:53:38 -0500, David Poole
<dont.email.me@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Scott in SoCal wrote:
[Cc'd to r.a.d in case David Poole has any comments. Followups to
misc.consumers]

My wife is sick with a nasty cold/flu/whatever. So I walked over to
the neighborhood CVS to pick up some NyQuil. When I got up to the
front there was a long line at the regular registers, but the
self-checkout was open, so I walked over to it and started to check
out.

Hope she (and you) are feeling better by now. :-)

Alas, not really. I might have to send her to the doctor.

Sorry to hear this; hope it changes for the better RSN.

During our last conversation on the issue, what did I tell you was the
proper way to pay for your items? <ducking and grinning>

What can I say? I like the cash rebates I get for using the card.

Understandable.

The sad thing is you can expect the ratio of self-checkout stations to
increase, as businesses look to shed even more of that expen$ive labor
component. Seems most are more interested in appeasing the stock
holder than the customer these days.

Hopefully as more of them are deployed they will get more stick time
on them and work out more of the bugs...

That would be nice. Hope their POS vendor does a better job than ours;
those morons seem to be strangely capable of reintroducing bugs that
appeared to be fixed for several versions when new releases come out.

The POS we use is supposedly one of the
better ones, but I still think it's a flaming pile of stuff. We are
pretty much our vendor's alpha site; I believe their philosophy is
that "if it compiles, ship it to those guys and let them find the
problems."

I didn't know Microsoft made POS terminals... :)

I'm expecting them to acquire our vendor any day now. :-) Actually
because of one of the vendor's foul-ups, my trip to SD is to be
postponed most likely. :-/

Actually Mickey$oft does ship a version of Windows XP called "WEPOS",
for Windows Point Of Service. Pretty much a half-breed of Windows XP
Home & Pro, without much (if any) support for media or high-end
graphics. We're (unfortunately) running XP Pro on our terminals and
servers at the unit level, though.

Hope the wife gets to feeling better.


--

People don't confuse me with someone who cares.
.

Relevant Pages
Loading