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"If you made it to age 50, you recall department stores where clerks placed a sales slip and cash in a cylindrical container that they then inserted into a stee
by moocowduckquack 13y ago
"If you made it to age 50, you recall department stores where clerks placed a sales slip and cash in a cylindrical container that they then inserted into a steel tube at the point of sale, with the container then transported by compressed air and partial vacuum, through the maze of tubing, to cashiers elsewhere in the store."
Many supermarkets in the UK have these at the till.
- justincormack 13y agoI have never seen one in the UK... where?
- moocowduckquack 13y agolots of the bigger ones - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1554632/Thief-stole-90000-from-supermarket-tubes.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1554632/Thief-stole-9...
- justincormack 13y agoAh interesting, makes sense I suppose to get cash away from tills.