Word: cashiering
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Under the honor system, shoppers select their groceries, tot up their tab on an adding machine, then pay a cashier. The sum is never questioned. "From time to time," says Migros Sales Chief Rolf Frieden, "we have customers who come back saying they underpaid us, but it happens just as often the other way. We always make up the difference, no questions asked." At the test store, sales went up, overhead went down, and pilferage amounted to only 0.3% of sales, just about what it had been before...
...Department Store. It is Dec. 24 at the Galeries Lafayette department store in Paris. Into the throng of late shoppers come two colossally inept hoods (Jean-Claude Brialy, Albert Remy), intent on hijacking 100 million francs from the cashier's office. Straight off, they discover that they have forgotten to bring tools. Detouring to "basement hardware," they lose more time through a plumbing mishap, Santa's payday and a jammed elevator-then, none too brilliantly, bring off the heist. A couple of minutes later, they lose the cash to a teen gang that has been holding...
...turn, have been loudly crying for Garcia-Godoy to fire Rivera Caminero and the rest of the service chiefs for their so-called "genocide" early in the civil war. At one point, Garcia-Godoy came out of a four-hour Cabinet meeting ready to bow to the rebels and cashier the generals-which would have meant an almost certain bloodbath...
...nothing less than the 22,300-mile synchronous orbit conceived by Clarke back in 1945. They were sure they could lick its formidable problems, but they could not convince the Hughes management. "One day," says Hughes Vice President Lawrence A. Hyland, "Williams walked into my office and laid a cashier's check for $10,000-his entire savings-on my desk. 'Here's what I want to contribute to the program,' he said. 'I'm sorry it's all I can do.'" It was enough. Williams' check was returned...
...also the beginning of Passover. It should have been double cyanide for the grosses. Instead, the first customers lined up at 2 a.m., and by 8, when the doors opened, the crowd was so thick that people were getting sick. The crush broke the glass on the cashier's box, and the money came in so hand-over-fist that it had to be carted off repeatedly in cardboard boxes...