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Pete C. Pete C. is offline
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Default High tech supermarket shopping.

BOB wrote:
>
> Are you getting a discount for doing their work? You are eliminating
> a job, so are you getting the financial benefit from this lost job?
> Or is the store just making more profit from you, like in the "self
> serve check out" (which never works correctly).
>
> BOB


The more appropriate question is "are you postponing a price increase?".
Costs on everything keep increasing, why would you expect to see a
discount for something that saves the store money vs. just not seeing a
price increase if they don't save money?

Pete C.