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    Re: Super Duper Huge Awesome Sale!! —Calum Tsang
   (...) While I often would like to think it's the cashier being stupid, I suspect it's actually a management problem-they're not giving their cashier employees enough responsibility to make a call on whether or not something is within the sale terms. (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.loc.ca)
   
        Re: Super Duper Huge Awesome Sale!! —Adam Murtha
     Seeing as how I currently do work in the service industry, I know that there are "stupid cashiers" but there is some blame to be laid on manange for not keeping their employees informed. But there are difficulties in doing that for large companies (...) (23 years ago, 13-Jun-01, to lugnet.loc.ca)
    
         Re: Super Duper Huge Awesome Sale!! —Calum Tsang
     (...) No, it's very much a valid concern. I used to work in labour management for a large retailer and spent a good part of my time in stores doing studies and convincing my coworkers to listen to store personnel. The cashiers get a lot of pressure (...) (23 years ago, 14-Jun-01, to lugnet.loc.ca)
   
        Re: Super Duper Huge Awesome Sale!! —Kyle D. Jackson
     (...) Agreed. I'm not griping about the cashiers, I'm griping about the system. In this day and age when the price pops into the cash register by just swiping a bar code, there is no reason sales shouldn't be automatic. Many times it doesn't seem to (...) (23 years ago, 14-Jun-01, to lugnet.loc.ca)
   
        Re: Super Duper Huge Awesome Sale!! —Matthias Jetleb
   (...) When and where were these? Matthias Jetleb VA3-MWJ (23 years ago, 15-Jun-01, to lugnet.loc.ca)
   
        Re: Super Duper Huge Awesome Sale!! —Calum Tsang
   (...) The $149 RIS1.5 package was a Boxing Day sale run by Future Shop. Thanks to Kevin Stone (who emailed me a copy of a newspaper), a number of us also got $30 extra off from the web site too (it was $117 in the store if you brought the ad-Kevin (...) (23 years ago, 15-Jun-01, to lugnet.loc.ca)
 

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