Posted on 06/15/2019 1:16:22 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Hey Dad was a great customer! The best!
Should be CONSUMER outrage. Not computer outage.
“Stores getting their own brand on merchandize REALLY sucks. Esp. foods/ OTC medicine. We don’t know where it’s coming from.”
Think: China
And that means, Think low quality control.
Wife Swap had a family on where Dad gave the kids an allowance, then took out 20% for the Lord (double what the Lord requires), income tax, and enforced savings. Needless to say, the kids ended up with very little. And Dad was proud of himself.
Especially seeing as how I had ignored his good advice in the first place, as to business location.
You see, we lived about 100 yards from the end of the paved road in a small town.... On a busy day maybe eight vehicles passed by (and it was the same four, coming and going). And the five other kids that lived in the neighborhood and would walk or ride by on bicycles a few times a day rarely had any money.
I suppose though that I learned a useful thing from both parents with that failed venture.
[Needless to say, the kids ended up with very little]
My guess is now they won’t grow up to be “let’s raise taxes!!” Democrats.
Good parents are a gift from the Lord.
Mine weren’t perfect; but then neither am I.
But they always had my back. Always.
They check the HVAC system? That’s how the last attack happened at Target.
I’m finding that show to be addictive.
The way some parents parent is shocking.
Looking back, the only reason I didn’t
grow up a serial killer was laziness.
My Dad was nicer. He ‘tricked’ me into saving.
My first car that I bought when I was in the Army, he financed; made sure I made regular payments, with interest; even issued me a payment book, with a slip to be included with each payment.
Then when I got out and went back to college, he gave it all back to me, the Principal, the Interest I paid, and the interest the bank paid to the savings account that he put the money in.
Pretty good guy, pretty smart guy, even though we didn’t always get along.
Yep. Mine too. Even during the times that I really didn't deserve it.
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...
Point of Sale. Literally a POS.
I’m actually shocked that they allowed things to be done ‘manually’. Every time in the last 20 years that I’ve been to a business with ‘the system down’, they have refused to make any sales until the system was back up. Even if it takes days.
The town I lived in until recently, about twenty years ago was surrounded by forest fires that blocked the highways that lead in or out of town, and burned down the electrical system and the telephone and cable (internet)system. The only businesses that would do business were the mom & pop places that did business the old way. Everyone else refused to sell anything, with food spoiling in the refrigerators and freezers; they would rather let it rot than take cash and screw up their computerized inventory. And forget about buying gasoline to try to escape on the ‘secret’ back roads that only a few people know about.
And emergency services were unprepared too; I actually loaned the emergency dispatcher for the Police Department and Fire Department a generator and a couple of ‘jerrycans’ of gas to run the base station radios. And a contractor business with gravity fed gasoline and diesel fuel tanks kept the cop cars and fire engines running so that they could get around and use their mobile radios.
It was then that I realized how fragile our modern computerized society was, even though I had been a sort of casual ‘prepper’for years.
It was a nervous six days before they got the fires under some control and restored electricity and wired communications. I couldn’t leave myself despite being capable of it, because I was taking care of two elderly and partially disabled parents who weren’t able to travel the back roads to get out of there.
Oh, and after three days, the town water system was dry. Once the gravity tanks on the hills ran dry, there was no way to refill them, without splicing in industrial grade three-phase 480V Generators... Of which none existed in town. I had to ration the 20 gallons of water I just happend to have had stored in the garage to wash hands and flush toilets once or twice a day.
/Grist from the rumor mill>
Re: More quality H1B IT engineering & support from India.
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Quite likely
Haven’t shopped there since they started letting perverted men into the ladies restrooms and dressing rooms.
Who started this effin’ China crap? Bill Clinton?
Only idiots require the Internet to run their cash registers.
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