Back in the day, telephone exchanges (xxx-XXX-xxxx) we’re assigned by area of a city and we’re not transportable. They used a computer to direct your call into the main number (613-737-1111) to the nearest location. It was quite innovative in it’s day, but would not work now, as phone numbers belong to the individual, not the ‘phone company.
Yeah, that worked quite well at times, but when I ordered a pizza to pick up on the way to work, the store that got the order wasn’t the store I stopped in to get the pizza from.
The entire chain then refused to take my order after that because I was a no-show at one store and a dissatisfied customer at the other, simultaneously.
Good times, good times.