To be clear, we're not talking about a high-school dropout minding a cash register.
To be clear, we're not talking about a high school dropout minding a cash register.
But occasionally you bump into something different, such as a tablet instead of a cash register.
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The fact is that a cash register costs about as much as an Android tablet.
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The shopper pays on the spot, with no need to locate and wait at a cash register.
After searching fruitlessly for something in his field, he decided working a cash register was better than not working at all.
With the right app, an iPhone could track the sun, sync shopping lists, be a drum machine, take restaurant reservations, be a cash register.
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The front desk at the hotel said that in May, the Government ruled that all shops and vendors had to use a cash register and issue a receipt.
Of the 25 million small businesses in the United States, only a small percentage are in retail with a brick-and-mortar presence and therefore equipped with a cash register and credit-card machine.
Inside its own retail stores Apple has changed the POS experience from visiting a cash register to simply having your credit card swiped on an i-device and the receipt emailed to you via your Apple ID.
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It catches investors when their guard is low but their trust is high, and once a co-worker or colleague confirms its working for them, the sounds of a cash register ringing can silence more rationale thoughts.
Still, some predict that by 2009, the ability to swipe everything from a pair of pants to a bar of soap under a scanner will mean that shoppers will spend less time in a cash register line.
Online users grew from a few hundred thousand in 1996, when they had their idea, to 3m in November 1999, when Dangdang something of an onomatopoeia, representing the sound of a cash register opening and closing, but also a derivation of the Chinese adjective for worthy went live.
Just in case you missed it the first time around, or fell off your chair and forgot what you were reading about: Sony will lose the equivalent (or more) to the retail price of a competing console every time a cash register rings up a PS3 sale this holiday.
What is clear is that the pace of reform in Greece is behind the curve and the reduction of the deficit is proving hard to enforce as so much tax revenue vanishes because transactions are not booked through a cash register or special prices are established for cash based i.e. no trail transactions.
The merchants who treat e-commerce as more than a digital cash register will do the best.
Paypal started using the service in March when it launched Here - a product allowing businesses to accept customers' credit-card payments via smartphones as an alternative to installing a cash-register system.
My father, Steve, encouraged his five daughters to learn about business and entrepreneurship and allowed me to take over a closet at home for a store, complete with inventory and a working cash register.
But Mr. Angelastri had decades of experience with computers after converting to a computer-based cash register in 1990.
Hilton sat in a booth near the cash register and appeared agitated at times while he talked, though no one overheard the conversation, Barkley said.
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Cash is tucked in or taken out from a shoebox under the counter so the cash register is not even touched except for one or two transactions to create an illusion of activity.
Embedding such products exacts a premium both at the cash register and in terms of battery life.
She punched a few buttons on the computer display of her cash register, electronically communicating our special order to the kitchen, and gave me a table stand with a number on it to identify us to the waiter responsible for serving the tables.
The cash register has been a bedrock of American retail for years and years.
Entertaining ads don't always make the cash register ring, a Madison Avenue paradox that is easily forgotten in the battle for eyeballs and creative awards.
The program could be used by anyone who knew the password, and he had picked an especially weak one: "pos, " a common nickname for the cash-register software that was also the system's user name.
Whitehead says she was unable to vote for prom king and queen without the badge and is segregated in the lunch line presumably because she has to go to a different register to pay in cash rather than by flashing her Beast mark.
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