Automation in retail

[Rod.H]

'beurs' is a somewhat archaic term for a pouch with money

Which appears in English embedded in words like "disbursement" and "reimbursement".

Just a bit of irrelevant trivia from your board admin.

I expect also "bursar."

You ninja'd me as I'd that thought too, though my link to that was from Pratchett with the Unseen University's bursar being mentioned a few times to be known to have said sack on his person & the chancellor asking him to pay the bar tab.

Oh and back to the topic, retail automation is a temperamental thing as most of it is off the shelf hardware being asked to do its thing consistently with no manual fallback if it or another tech it depends on fails as seen down here recently when something took out most of a grocery chain close to a peak time. What the something was I've not found out, though I'm thinking it was telecoms related, which has also taken out banks for a day when the sole coms link failed.