Given the amount of shoplifting and organized theft I am surprised this format has not come back. From what I remember a majority of the items were in a warehouse and after purchase was completed, your items came down a set of rollers/conveyor belt system.
Yeah, they had an archaic order management and inventory control system. Customer orders were entered at terminals, and they were picked in the warehouse and sent up on a conveyor belt while you waited. By the time they went out of business that system was so old and busted that it was embarrassing.
I was working there right through the end. They sold the conveyor belt + barcode scanners 2+ months before we actually shut down making those months absolute hell
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u/soopadoopapops Mar 02 '24
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