{"id":13898,"date":"2016-04-11T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T13:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=13898"},"modified":"2016-04-11T00:09:13","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T04:09:13","slug":"why-cant-i-find-the-cash-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/why-cant-i-find-the-cash-register\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Can\u2019t I Find The Cash Register?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/041116_0406_WhyCantIFin1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ray A. Smith wrote that stores are increasingly doing away with cash registers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>High end stores feel that cash registers look ugly and don&#8217;t fit in with the overall aesthetic.<\/li>\n<li>Instead sales associates walk around with tablets and help customers pay and check out on the spot.<\/li>\n<li>After the merchandise is paid for, customers can relax on a plush couch, perhaps with a cup of tea, while their items are taken away to be bagged in a hidden room.<\/li>\n<li>Doing so makes customers feel special and gets them away from the cattle like feeling of waiting in line.<\/li>\n<li>Forcing customers to interact with sales associates can also increase sales as they seek to upsell or talk customers into buying additional things.<\/li>\n<li>Getting rid of cash registers also frees up more real estate to display a store&#8217;s wares.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read about why this could make some customers feel uncomfortable, and how this all ties into big data over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/find-the-missing-cash-register-1457472672\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/find-the-missing-cash-register-1457472672\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2016\/03\/why-is-it-so-hard-to-find-the-cash-register.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ray A. Smith wrote that stores are increasingly doing away with cash registers: High end stores feel that cash registers look ugly and don&#8217;t fit in with the overall aesthetic. Instead sales associates walk around with tablets and help customers pay and check out on the spot. After the merchandise is paid for, customers can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/041116_0406_WhyCantIFin1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13898"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13902,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13898\/revisions\/13902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}