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Default Aldi, the German discounter

On 04/01/18 13:22, whisky-dave wrote:
On Thursday, 4 January 2018 13:05:30 UTC, jim wrote:
Huge Wrote in message:
On 2018-01-04, Andy Burns wrote:
whisky-dave wrote:

The best tills I;ve seen are those where you have a seprators so if someone is slow at picking up their staff then you juts sent the next customers stuff to the other side.

Sainsbury's seemed to give up on those by the late 70's ... and the
automatic coin dispensing chutes for your change.

Does anyone pay with cash any more?



only plebs?
Hence all the new banknotes...
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Jim K


I still use both methods, but cards are prefered by the shops as people keep less track on what they are spending.


+1.

The whole premise behind modern financial transactions, whether retail
or service, is to make as sure as possible that the "spendee" has a
little knowledge or control as possible over his/her money. And it works...

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Jeff