On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:57:34 +0000, Peter Parry
wrote:
>On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:47:48 +0000, Alex Heney
>wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:59:13 +0000, Peter Parry
>>wrote:
>
>>I don't understand why you have persistently interpreted my comments
>>as only applying to computerised tills.
>
>Your comments on "inertia selling" and the customer being pressured to
>pay a different price only at the till can really only apply to tills
>where the price is determined independently from the displayed price
>and where the price is not on a human readable price labels on the
>item.
>
I am sure there were cases before computerised tills where the
shopkeeper would "know" all his prices, and would not label the
individual items, but only label the shelf.
And in the days before computerised tills, there were also relatively
few self service shops, so the customer would not be seeing the price
label stuck to the item.
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