(11-30-2020, 11:12 PM)Sneakers Wrote:

(11-27-2020, 09:15 AM)mikesez Wrote: Yes, point of sale systems are regularly modified.  Most often because an item is "on sale" one week but not the next week.  They also modify them for the regularly scheduled tax holidays.  But they get months to prepare for both of those.  These emergency orders have them only a day or two to prepare, typically.

Some here find my statements to be less than credible because I sometimes speak against the Gospel according to Thomas Sowell.  People don't like it when you go at their religion and it causes them to hate everything you say.

But in this specific case it's silly. I have a vague idea that some states or cities tried to force walmart to partially shut down, and it didn't last very long.  It would be nice if I could tell you places and dates, but not having them doesn't make my memory wrong.  You could prove me wrong if you looked at every jurisdiction that tried this, and showed that they are still enforcing it.  But if one of them tried and quit, I'm right.

And why are we arguing about this anyways? Do you think this partial shutdown of walmart is a good idea that should be done throughout the US? I don't.

Only a day or two to change availability codes.....oh my!   Where will Walmart ever find the resources?  Plus you said it was impractical.  But wait!  It some states it was done.  How can this be?   

LOL.  Your credibility (or more accurately, lack thereof) has nothing to do with Sowell and everything to do with your statements that are frequently unsupported by factual evidence.

So in this discussion you've gone from stating it happened, to saying you don't know if it happened and now to a "vague idea" that some states may have tried to make it happen.  Why would anyone still be enforcing it now after non-essential stores have been allowed to re-open?

Have you already forgotten what the thread is all about?  The discussion was about the rich getting richer during the pandemic.
The partial shutdown of Walmart, Target, etc. was a great idea.  Why should corporate giants be allowed to prosper while the lesser suffer?  All jurisdictions that required stores selling non-essential merchandise to temporarily close, should have prevented other stores from selling similar items during the same time period.  If the furniture store can't open, then Walmart shouldn't be allowed to sell furniture, simply because they also sell groceries.

Your last paragraph is solid truth. Here at my local walmart, the only store of its kind in my county, there were several areas blocked off to consumers due to being considered nonessential. One example is seeds for gardens being blocked for purchase raised the alarm for annual gardeners and had people trying to start gardens in panic mode because they couldn't find produce in the stores. Forget about riots over blm, people here were going to riot because they couldn't buy seeds and other essential items.

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