Have you ever been in a grocery store where the entire computer system went down?

I was in the grocery store this afternoon and suddenly the computer system went down. None of the cashiers could ring stuff up. We had to stand there in lines and wait for the computer system to come back up. Luckily it was only for a few minutes. The manager made an announcement over the intercom system. Somehow that was still working.

That's one bad thing about technology. Nothing works when it fails.

At least you didn't have to wait long. Once while I was at work our whole computer system went down. We couldn't do any work for 6 hours.

I read once the computers went down at a "Big Box" Store and a riot broke out, people grabbed a cart and proceeded to grab anything they could get their hands on, then ran out to thjir cars. Security was overwhelmed, and when Nearly $3,000,000.00 in Merchandise was stolen. The following week the store offered amnesty to anyone returning stolen merchandise,and the store recovered about $500,000.00. A worker at the store noticed that those who returned merchandise all sad "My Brother, Neighbor, Cousin ... told me to give this stuff back. Nobody admitted they took the merchandise. :lol:

I've been at a store when just the register I need goes down. It's usually in the middle of a transaction so I'd have to wait it out, instead of going to another register.

I've been at a store when just the register I need goes down. It's usually in the middle of a transaction so I'd have to wait it out, instead of going to another register.

Likewise, happened to me twice at Family Dollar.

This happened to me a few years back at D'Agostinos. But the system was down only a few minutes though.

I alway thought in bigger stores, the generators kick in. Probably the little stores don't bother for the cost and the rareity the power conks out.

Totally....at Walgreens and they were ringing people out with calculators....it took forever and people were going crazy screaming and yelling pushing and shoving....just crazy...

and normally the computers go down during my transactions due to many many coupons used....lol....

Yesterday at the store right after my friend scanned my items,her computer locked up so she had to reboot..... Took about 5 mins.......

I remember the days when the debit card machine would always mess up and they'd have to call someone up to fix it and everything is just "STUCK" as they can't ring anyone else up or do any other transactions until it gets fixed.. I remember thinking I will NEVER use a debit card because this new technology is more trouble than it's worth lol of course I use it all the time now

Computers failing really isn’t that new of a thing. I worked at a (crappy) casino/hotel as a front desk agent thirty years ago (next month is the 30th anniversary of losing that job and me leaving Las Vegas), which linked two properties (across the street from each other) and for whatever reason the computer was down which just made us woefully underpaid employees work even harder, running around doing whatever. I forgot why we did, but it was a miserable day because the job was so dependent on computers.

My stepmother who is in her 70’s has complained that there are no more phone books and that the newspaper has dwindled to nothing because of computers and the internet. Doesn’t bother me, not making phone books saves trees and is good for the environment.

Computers failing really isn’t that new of a thing. I worked at a (crappy) casino/hotel as a front desk agent thirty years ago (next month is the 30th anniversary of losing that job and me leaving Las Vegas), which linked two properties (across the street from each other) and for whatever reason the computer was down which just made us woefully underpaid employees work even harder, running around doing whatever. I forgot why we did, but it was a miserable day because the job was so dependent on computers.

My stepmother who is in her 70’s has complained that there are no more phone books and that the newspaper has dwindled to nothing because of computers and the internet. Doesn’t bother me, not making phone books saves trees and is good for the environment.


I find there are still PLENTY of phonebooks, they send me 2 or3 a year lol I have 2 landline phones and keep one at both. My apartment is very 70ish/80ish with of course some technology, It makes me feel more at peace to be surrounded by things of my childhood which was the 1980s. I'm like your stepmom, I still find myself picking up the phone book to search a number instead of the computer, sometimes it just seems easier, I guess more FAMILIAR lol Just as I've always preferred to go into the bank to do my business than drive through same with restaurants

And I too prefer a newspaper, just something about holding something REAL in my hands I like than reading online... I guess, as I said it's just familiar

Have you ever been in a grocery store where the entire computer system went down?

I was in the grocery store this afternoon and suddenly the computer system went down. None of the cashiers could ring stuff up. We had to stand there in lines and wait for the computer system to come back up. Luckily it was only for a few minutes. The manager made an announcement over the intercom system. Somehow that was still working.

That's one bad thing about technology. Nothing works when it fails.


Oh yes! Like when the TV goes off and it takes 30 minutes to reboot :rolleyes: back in the day it would come right back on, and I'd much rather deal with a little fuzz or "snow" than the pic freezing up

In those self-checkout express lanes that get more registers all time, there's always at least two registers that are out of order.

I have been ready to check out in stores that go down and I had to leave all my stuff behind. It's aggravating. It's happened maybe three times so not often. Once I had a nice lady save all my stuff under the counter and she called me when they were back up so I could go back and buy my stuff. But the other two times, they just didn't do anything. I had to leave full carts of stuff.

Sure. Lucky we didn't starve

This was just something she communicated with me a few days ago.

I will probably be looking for a job in a week or so, and really would like to find a job from the newspaper, but jobs advertisements are not in our newspaper anymore. I don’t know about the rest of America, but the internet has decimated our local newspaper which has been a mainstay of the city for well over 100 years. My elderly parents still get the paper, I wouldn’t read one if it was free.

When I worked at Sears on a Sunday, the whole system was down. (Insert joke here I guess.) For a time, we couldn’t ring up ANYTHING. I was working at Package Pickup and we couldn’t scan anything. There was a web order that I couldn’t access. One person came by saying that he ordered a weedwhacker last night but we couldn’t find out for fire and because of that, we couldn’t supply him with one. We also told him that we couldn’t find out because our system was down and we couldn’t ring up anything. After this, he goes to the sales floor, grabs a weedwhakcer and asks the cashier to ring him up. I see this and I’m like “We just told you that our system was down.” Then again, to be fair, he might have thought the system was back up by then.