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This predated Amazon by many years. 😑

Really skilled cashiers never even looked at the keyboard.

Wow, that's one tall warehouse.

Great.

Im in my late 30s, and here in the UK even not too long ago, discount retailers like Aldi and Lidl were still using manual entry registers rather than scanners. Employees had to memorise thousands of items. Technology has come a long way in a short time.

Nice place to b a cashier. Gets to sit there and somebody else "bags".

The year I was born. Lol I'm gonna find every type of video on 1978 I can watch on CZcams .

Ah yes, being timed will never change 😂 I was doing a job designed for 3 people and my shop was still wondering why I wasnt hitting targets 😂😂

Where is the child going? 3:36

Sorry, but I call BS on this. As someone who operated a cash register in the mid / late 80's for a large supermarket chain, I can tell you that the register required the operator to press the price and the department... i.e. fruit / veg, meat, refrigerated, freezer, deli, general grocery. This kept a record of how much money was spent on / was given to each department. At the end of day printout this was reflected. Later on, when barcodes were invented / implemented you'd find that the checkout machines could log a lot more information. They didn't individually do all the work themselves though. They actually communicated with a bigger machine / server upstairs (probably via a serial port) which had access to all the prices (PLU - Price look up). This of course would keep a log of how much money was in the till as well so the office / cash room could tell you do "to a clearance" [i.e. put a bunch of cash into a tube that would suck the tube from each register up to the cash room (reinforced room with cashier behind glass (possibly bullet proof). I know this as one day the machine / server up stairs had a meltdown (got too hot due to the aircon going out [fans were not enough]) so it shut down which in turn somehow blew out the circuit breaker which knocked down the actual registers(no communication with the server) and some of the store lights. Us checkout operators were now getting staff members to run down each aisle getting prices for everything (complete madness). It made everything run at about 10% speed. From memory, this disaster lasted for about 40 minutes. The queues got so long and we got more and more stressed.

Blimey!!!!!

I bet they would rather do the math with pencil and paper. 😉😁

That’s the exact register I used in 1975!!! We had 52 keys and had to ring “by touch” no peeking at your fingers!!

Barcode scanning must've really blown people's minds 😮

The glorious days when you had cashiers.

Who narrated this ? It's the same guy as the 0 range adverts

No round of applause for what those automatic warehouses and stocking have become.

Worked at Macy's in the late 70s and this is the NCR terminal they used.

National Cash Register

A cashier sitting down and taking their time? Now that's science fiction.

Asda ?

Wow. Ancient top of the line technology.

I want to know what was eight cents.

Only store that I know that A cashier can sit down is Aldi I never see nobody sit down

Even in 1978, people were fighting the digital surveillance of staff. Impressive

What was this supermarket located?

Persil has been around for a minute eh?

I remember when supermarket scanners first came in and people didn’t trust them, who’s to say the cashier won’t run something through twice or the price is wrong? We were assured that would never happen. Nowadays almost every time I get back from the grocery store I’ll find several items at minimum were scanned at higher than their shelf price, I won’t even leave the store anymore without checking the receipt for overcharges.

This might be cool, but just try being an American living in the uppity suburbs west of London -- and expecting your supermarket bags to be packed FOR you by the checkout lady. They will stare at you and not do anything. THEN the people behind you in line will start complaining about "the big slow person who is holding the line up". THEN the checkout lady will sit there and glare at you as you tell her to "get her fist out of your face" until you are ready to collect your change. Been there, done that. And they call this progress?

Hooray for the 1970's. We want Billy Beer.

Electric cash registers in grocery stores only got smaller and smaller over the years but the department store ones stayed huge for a long time like at Macy's. No joke. Their NCR machines were huge even in the 2010s. 🤔

1:40 and in a darkened room, a printer works endlessly to churn out pages and pages of babble

This will take away all our jobs. We have to stop this.

And how many jobs were lost.

About 1984 or 85, the grocery store I worked at in rural North Dakota got the UPC scanners. There were a few of us taking turns to enter into the central register each item's description. In other words, scan the item's UPC, then enter a unique ten-letter (maybe 12-letter) abbreviated description (e.g. KELLRAISBRAN, CAMPTOMSOUP). This took weeks and weeks. Seems to me there should have been some way to get this info automatically loaded when they bought the machines.

Her...mistakes.

0:30 Thank god for contactless.

The days when our population was only 50 million, and getting a doctors or dentists appointment was easy.The roads were clear and life much more enjoyable. Mass immigration has changed all that. An incredible 70 million in the UK now.

Computers can now fire you from your jobs 😆

Witch craft. I'm telling you it's the end of times! The work of the devil!

HAHAHA no way.... Walmart is still a dump, nothing is reordered just like TARGET CANADA.. FU-Walcrap

Amazin

If people then could see where we are now in this she. Wow!!😊

It’s now 2023 I work in a warehouse and it’s all done by humans not robots….(Sainsbury’s BTW)

While Kroger still issues a POS system from 2003 😂

That giant dot matrix printer Yikes 🤷🏼‍♂️😂🤦🏼‍♂️

When I started working at age 16 in 1986, I was a bagboy at a Kroger. They had just introduced the swipe and scan system for ringing up items. No more punching in the prices by hand. They also had just introduced the plastic bag for carrying out purchases. We were told to cram as many items into each bag as we could, because "These bags aren't CHEAP!"

I remember in line in an edmonton grocery store. an old lady wanted part of a package of tomato's, not the whole thing. wanted to be charged less, the girl said she couldn't because the price was in here, pointing at the electronic register. the lady got mad....darn those computers. lol. 1980.

The beginnings of an amazon warehouse 😂

They should work at Aldi on the checkouts they are like zombies 😂