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So first people want choices...now they want it si
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one-key patent
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It boils down to companies not spending money on P
"No no, push F8.. Back up. Ok, now enter code 'G'.. Then F6.. Then 4.. Now enter."
"Ohhhhh"
When I was managing a tiny retail store I looked into several POS offerings and none of them really impressed me.
POS should be a horrific monstrosity to configure initially, and then be a breeze once it's deployed. We're still doing this all wrong.
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Probably very little. An intuitive system might save a few hours per clerk in training costs, but after the first day, the clerk would be up to speed, and there would be no more benefit.
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Of course some retailers have the opposite problem - fewer stores but many more registers - the largest store I implemented a POS at had 168 registers in one store and several more with 80+.
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It's not always about speed. In some retail environments, like grocery - yes, absolutely - but then a grocery POS is thusly optimized and has many less functions than a specialty store POS.
In a more specialty store - the emphasis is on reasonable speed with high accuracy and lots of functionality like layaways, inventory lookups, returns etc.
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No computer, no sale
The worst part of this is somewhere along the line, consumers started to accept it. I was behind someone trying to buy something with a bar code the scanner couldn't read. The cashier tried about 1,000 times, then called a supervisor who just kept rescanning, too. I moved to another line and about 10 minutes later when I left the store, they were still standing there trying to scan the stupid code.
I was leaving Wal-Mart once and the "stop thief!" alarm went off because the tag on my package of CD-R's hadn't been deactivated. They checked the slip to see I wasn't a shoplifter then said they had to deactivate the tag.
I told them they were my CD-R's now and my security tag and left.
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My Supermarket is very good
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Can anyone actually give me an example of where these systems really fall down and why? Preferrably an example from the UK.
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