In message , Owain
writes
"Andy Hall" wrote
| Andrew Gabriel wrote:
| Do they have one of those systems with wires across the ceiling
| with little pots carrying the money to the cashier?
| No -- there's too much merchandise hanging from the ceiling
| for one of those to work.
| I haven't seen one for years. When I was a kid, all the shoe
| shops had them.

I can remember the shoe shop used when I was little having a cuckoo-clock,
which fascinated me greatly and meant that shoe-buying trips had to be
synchronised to the hour :-)

| They do add up the cost of the items
| using paper and pencil though -- I can't recall there being a
| till in the shop, or at least if there is, it isn't used for
| adding up the totals.

They'll have problems recruiting staff under 40 with that skill. I expect
they have to convert to decimal every time they find a really old box of
something in t'back still priced at £4 19s 6d. (Paying cash sir? We'll drop
the odd farthing then.)

I bet you had some Wayfarers (?) too

.... with the compass in the heel and animal tracks on the soles

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geoff