Grocery stores should have either a manual cash registor or auxiliary power in event of a disaster.

Doesn't even mention what they probably lost in theft during the blackout...can you imagine?

Imagine a Walmart, and the power goes out.... You can bet they have backup generators that come back real quick! (of course, their POS system is a POS...). I'll bet they still use UNIX.

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Nothing wrong with unix and its great for these sort of things as quite a lot of terminal stuff can be treated as a dumb terminal meaning that theres less chance of people hacking the system