I have been in department stores, though not recently by a long shot, that did not use cash registers. The sales person wrote up the sale and put the sales slip and the cash in either a basket or a tube (like at the drive-in window at the bank) and it was whisked away to the upstairs office. I doubt that was ever common, though. I also remember one "corner store" that had a little box on the side of the cash register where she put the sales tax when there was a sale. None of the sales were very big but the store had a big candy counter.
I also remember when they would put dust covers over the merchandise on the counters at nighttime. Relatively few things were packaged the way they are now. Likewise, I remember sweeping compound being spread on what I believe were oiled wood floors, which was in turned swept up and reused again the next day. Even as a little boy, that didn't seem to make a lot of sense to me, not that it worried me or anything.
There was also an abundance everywhere of small specialty shops, although some would be found more in smaller towns and others in larger towns, curiously. There were men's shops and lady's shops and in college towns there were the same sorts of shops that catered to the university set. There were hat shops, too, probably more for women than for men and I believe they were found more in larger towns. There were none in my home town, although there were two or three men's shops and probably as many lady's shops. I was never in any of them.
Lest we imagine that on-line shopping is something really new and different, there was also mail-order from three or four well-known companies which also had big department stores but never in a small town. There were sometimes so-called catalog stores, however, and there was one of those in my hometown. I don't remember if it was a Sears or a Montgomery Wards. Spiegel was another one and it's still around. I used to think you could buy anything imaginable from Sears.
“The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.”I remember when people spent more time talking to each other (in person!) than they spent talking to their pets.
I remember when people spent more time talking to each other (in person!) than they spent talking to their pets.
Did other countries have those cellophane sun guards?
I remember when people spent more time talking to each other (in person!) than they spent talking to their pets.
They can be extremely deceitful too.Cats are refreshingly candid in expressing their views.
You know you're getting old when the only reason something doesn't hurt is because it's numb. And everything itches!
That's true, when asked the secret of the longevity of their sixty year marriage, the husband replied: "Simple, you've got to keep breathing."I'm serious but not dead. And good luck is essential to every human endeavor.
“The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.”
Mark Twain.
and are not qualified to do a diagnosis via internet,
You're taking this whole thing much too seriously
. You have no idea how I look,.