On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:18:12 -0800, sf wrote:

> On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 05:17:00 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
> > wrote:
>
>>It really is a shame. Not only did they buy and use them up,
>
> and threw them away... they just don't exist anymore.
>
>>but the unique
>>quality of each of the stores dissolved.
>
> Completely gone. We had a wonderful high end store called I Magnin's
> that didn't have cash registers on the floor. They used pneumatic
> tubes.

Just the other day I noticed that the checkouts at my local supermarket
have pneumatic tubes. I doubt they're still used though.


> Your item was whisked away and *wrapped*.

Not by pneumatic tube, of course...