a whole new POS system

Posted November 12, 2004

Lately we’ve been working hard in the Bookstore. We are finally joining the rest of the world with some technology. This week we received a new POS system and now instead of pricing and depricing books and ringin them up manually, we don’t have to price them and can SCAN them at the register! I’m so excited and I know my right hand is too especially knowing I won’t have to write anymore vouchers!!! well…that is if IS can get their acts together and get things working. This means not so long lines, two registers that are fully functional to process credit cards, department charges, cash, checks, gift cards, and vouchers. Now if only the books would bag themselves haha. So, as you can see I’ve been busy with training for the POS system. It is soooooo user friendly. A bit too user friendly. I hope it will be a smooth transition. Also we’ve already received about 80% of our books for the Spring semester. They are all currently checked in and shelved. Just a little reorganizing is necessary.

People never cease to amaze me in their ignorance. Every semester I try my hardest to find new more obvious ways to keep people out of the book section. People just can’t help but get so excited about Spring books so early. They just can’t stay out. We can have hundreds of unpacked boxes everywhere and they will climb over them just to see if their book is here. They will even ask if we can find it for them in the boxes. This semester I got a bright orange posterboard and Erica wrote “DO NOT ENTER Books not available til Dec 1st”….what do you know…they walk right past it. We’ve even tried police tape, packing tape, boxes blocking the aisle ways, chairs, everything and they climb right through it. I just wish I could get an electric fence. That would be fun to watch haha.

Yesterday we were closed all day except from 12-1:30. Right on the outside of the door was a big sign that was at eye level telling the customers that. At 11:30 a woman just walked right in and was so confused when we told her we were closed. The door was closed and the sign was up. Crazy crazy people I tell you! Well…at least I felt smarter by the end of the day ;) haha.

Everyone have a great day and a wonderful weekend!

Posted in General, Work, bookstore

2 Comments so far

  1. CoolB on November 12th, 2004

    Woo! New tech, yay! And I think not being able to read must be a pre-req of college students. I work as a custodian at a local university and the building I used to be in (the library) had signs all over saying no food or drink except in the cafe, so what do people do? They ate and drank everywhere. (Don’t even get me started on why they had a cafe in a building where they didn’t want food.) And if you do get permission to set up an electric fence film some footage so I can see too.. either that or let me know and I’ll come on down :)

  2. Mandy on November 16th, 2004

    Good luck with the new system. Hope it all works out for you and helps make your job easier!!!!