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On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 17:07:10 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

>
>"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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>> On 6/24/2014 12:17 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>>
>>> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>> On 6/23/2014 8:58 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>>>> On 2014-06-23 19:41, Julie Bove wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I don't know who wrote that. I never had a career as a checkout
>>>>>> clerk.
>>>>>> I did work for I Mart for 17 years. I was the garden shop manager,
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> layaway manager, a checkout supervisor, a fill in manager, but just
>>>>>> briefly but mostly I did POS and Merchandising.
>>>>>
>>>>> Point of Sale..... cash register???
>>>>
>>>> That's what it means in my world. "Merchandising" means
>>>> restocking/marking down/adding new items/stock as needed. I got to
>>>> dress mannequins and arrange displays when I worked in retail. That
>>>> was also considered merchandising.
>>>
>>> POS means being in charge of pricing.

>>
>> Bullshit. POS stands for Point of Sale. According to Wiki:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_of_sale
>>
>> "A retail point of sale system typically includes a cash register (which
>> in recent times comprises a computer, monitor, cash drawer, receipt
>> printer, customer display and a barcode scanner) and the majority of
>> retail POS systems also include a debit/credit card reader."
>>
>> In other words, a cash register.

>
>That is indeed what it stands for. However, the job that I had entailed
>quite a bit of things.


Fvck... she's in extra good form today