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...problem is not in us, it's in our computers. And I am fed up. I don't want to have to deal with software conflicts and bugs and crashes anymore. I don't want to waste another second waiting at the checkout counter of the grocery store because the cash-machine network is down. I want to be online, not on line. Most of all, I want to read my E-mail without having to sacrifice a tethered goat...
Several weeks ago, Price says, he was waiting in the checkout line to purchase spanikopita, a spinach pie. The cashier told him the pie cost $2.62, but Price had only $2.15 in his wallet, he says...
...store's computer checkout system, which keeps track of the purchases customers make in each department, allows patrons to make one single payment for all their purchases when they finish shopping, Bougas says...
...checkout system was designed to facilitate one-stop shopping by eliminating the hassle of paying five separate companies for the purchases people make in each area," he says...
...government commodities. Much of the decline in giving is explained by tighter efficiency in the food industry, which provides a good part of the food-bank inventory. Imperfect goods -- underbaked cornflakes, dented cans -- that food processors once donated are now sold to new "secondary" retailers like Pick 'n' Save. Checkout scanners help retailers keep better track of inventories, which means the nation's millers, bakers and canners overproduce less. Organizers also sense a grudging mood among private donors. The attitude, says Joyce Ruthermel, executive director of Pittsburgh's food bank, is "not only do we not want our tax dollars...