I can tell you worked with them, too. I think you were only scratching the surface, though. Most of the stores I see run on some mainframe apps or something tha

I can tell you worked with them, too. I think you were only scratching the surface, though. Most of the stores I see run on some mainframe apps or something that people use terminals for on buggy handhelds. The checklanes got upgraded recently to what looks like a Fujitsu Linux running Java-based clients. Slow and limited in UI control compared to the concurrent DOS thing from IBM that only slowed down on updates. They had no interest in stuff like QNX when I proposed it for U-Scan to keep robots running despite software failures which they have a lot of. Employees complain the browsers in that company can take several minutes to ten minutes to load on whatever thin client and virtualization solutions they're using. They didn't know. The inventory and Clicklist computers often have different inventory in them or other preventable problems. The digital coupon system constantly screws up to the point that a recent sale required printed barcodes for cashiers at registers in case it screwed up again. They apparently have a social network that few workers use for knowledge sharing since they don't even have time to stock stuff. The list goes on and on. I keep following the situation out of both concern and morbid curiosity. Easily one of the worst I've seen at managing both operations and IT. Their media and legal departments are among the better I've seen, though. I mean, nobody reports this stuff. Can't be an accident with the amount of attention on them.