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What exactly do you think would be costly and huge about this?

• JetSpiegel 7y ago
  Other than changing a core system across hundreds of stores, being held up by scotch tape, prayers and manual processes? Some ungodly mix of obsolete tech like Oracle DB, unsupported Microsoft fad from decades ago, crap hardware? Gargantuan codebases without version control? This is all real-world examples I have personally witnessed in the field, I'm not a greying veteran. I saw a country-wide costumer-facing e-commerce site displaying the wrong prices for days because the ElasticSearch cache was being manually updated daily by someone who was on her probation period, not even a proper employee yet. She ran that job manually daily for months, including weekends, holidays, etc, until her father died and the production site was in stasis for that time. I'm pretty sure this was never ackknowledged oficially and she is still there earning about 1000€ per month.
• lozenge 7y ago
  My local doesn't even print accurate unit prices due to shrinkflation and incorrect information from distributers. And it's a national chain. This feature also ties up customer service time on categorisation corrections (some accurate, some not) and reduces your ability to accept changes to the POS developed by its supplier.