On Sat, 14 Dec 2013 23:34:13 -0800, SMS
wrote:

This morning I was in Harbor Freight Tools. The line seemed abnormally
long and one register had a "Cash Only" sign on it. It was also very quiet.

The Point of Sale system was down. They said it was down at all stores
and it had been down since Friday. They were writing up bills of sale by
hand, and using a calculator to calculate 25% discounts, sales tax, and
totals. I wanted to tell the cashier that she could multiply by 0.75 and
that she didn't have to multiply the price by 0.25 and then store that
and then subtract that amount from the full price, but the last time I
tried to explain that to a cashier at CVS she insisted that it wouldn't
be right.

A couple of months ago, HF was hacked and they lost many thousands of
CC numbers. My debit card was one. The perps only used the number
once before we could shut it down. My wife watches our accounts like
a hawk and I was out of town on business the day they hit a Marshalls
(we don't shop there, anyway). Visa only had to eat $50 on mine but
I'm sure they took the hammer. I stopped using the PIN on my debit
card after that.