The grocery in my neighborhood lost its credit card swipers on the morning of January 1st and had to resort to manual checkout causing long lines. The manager said the problem had to do with a satellite problem. No mention of y2k.

-- Nell Levin (nellrose@earthlink.net), January 02, 2000

Answers

Nell - Was it a chain store? Is it possible to run it down - ask questions of local management? We may be able to document more of these if we can discern the exact nature of this failure.

-- Jennifer Bunker (Salt Lake City, Utah) (jen@bunkergroup.com), January 03, 2000.

It is an independently owned store, not a chain store. I suspect it is y2k-related, but have no evidence. When I talked with the manager, I got the impression he did not know a whole lot about how the satellite system operates. I was just contacted by Barnaby Feder of the New York Times. He is going to follow up. Because of the timing of the incident, it makes a good human interest story.

-- Nell Levin (nellrose@earthlink.net), January 03, 2000.

Sounds like what happened in Brittain

-- Cyndi Crowder (cyncrowder@aol.com), January 03, 2000.