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I was wondering the same thing. But its probably for an "is it in stock in a store near me", which might by tied into the inventory/ pos system.
by acomjean 13y ago
I was wondering the same thing.
But its probably for an "is it in stock in a store near me", which might by tied into the inventory/ pos system.
- crazytony 13y agoyou're probably right though it astounds me that this relationship would be bidirectional eg: web servers can make requests to individual stores. Security implications aside if it was engineered that way it would make for highly variable response times and diminished reliability: not only would you have to make 50+ queries but those queries would have to be across a wan instead of being colocated.
- heywire 13y agoI can't imagine that anyone would design a system in such a way. It would be far more likely that transaction data would be uploaded to a central database which tracks store inventory.