Joe Handley

Eh, not always faster and more efficent, I've run into issues with self checkouts that I wouldn't have if I was operating a cashier run machine instead.......then there's people that make Leroy Jethro Gibbs look like a computer savant or idiots like the one in my old store today...................

And it still requires humans to maintain and fill the machines when they break and run out of reciept tape and/or money, as well as design and then write updated programming for the following generations.

Technically...........no, humans are still involved, but now they're just relying on customers to their own scanning and some of the cashiering. Only thing the machine is replacing is the dispencing of cash if that's how the product is paid for.

While I can't say for sure in other stores, the self checkout at my old store only took away one potential cashier job and some sales floor space, as it replaced 2 typical registers with 4 and still has 1 cashier to basically babysit these 4 and the assist/babysit the customers using them.

My Sister and I stopped by the Jewel-Osco Mom and I used to work at and as we were cashing out at self check out, another self checkout user ent her kid to bring to the attention of the girl observing the registers that the hot dog buns that were supposed to be 2 for $4 were instead ringing up at $2 a bag.........it took the cashier and me both to convince her that was right!

Looks like Purple-licious will be the right color to use.

For as close as you live to us Harry, don't be surprised if you actually see her cruising around in it!

Got a new one to add to mine, pay off the loan on my Sister's new Challenger!

It's official, she's now the proud owner of a Plum Crazy Challenger R/T Classic!

Just most of what's there wasn't when the car was originally built!

Sounds like they found a car in Indiana and are going to pick it up and bring into the area! Only thing I see as a true downside, it has a sunroof........not a fan of having a giant hole in the roof.

They are nice to have Harry! Gotta pull my front ones and hose them off now that the weather appears that it's going to be decent. I'd still like to get the trunk liner and the in channel window vents for the car too, but they don't make them for the 200 and told Dad when he got the mats that the '08-'10 Sebring ones don't fit, even though the doors appear to be structurally identical and have since seen one with those installed on it...........

Exactly Harry, comparing just the body to my Cherokee, it has over 160k on itnand is 16 years old, but the rust holes have just now started to open in the rockers, many of the non consumable parts that car had to have replaced in it's first 160k have yet to be replaced on my Jeep too. I will say that some of the stuff I have had issues with didn't even exist on that car or when that car was built. In some ways it goes to show how much better modern cars are and in some cases how regulations and consumer demands have improved cars. Just looking at the first 25k of that car vs the now first 25k on my 200 (just rolled over that going to work yesterday ), all it's needed since I bought it were oil changes, tire rotations, the computers have been updated through the OBD2 port by the dealership, the headlights have been re-aimed, then I've put in a drop in K&N filter and need to replace the cabin air filter. Only thing I've spent a lot of money on for the car is fuel, payments, and insurance, and my parents bought me the Weathertech floor liners for it for my birthday that first year I had it!

Well Charlie, this.one appears to have required a ton of work to keep.it around this long, half the body has been replaced......twice, the frame isn't factory, ect. I don't think this was good initial build quality so much as it was constant rebuilding once the owner took it home.

Oh, here's the MM Plum Crazy vs the Testors Purple-licious, I'm thinking the latter is closer to the right shade of purple.

We probably should be just given some, from at least both pairs of grandparents on, that's most of what we've bought since at least WW2

Honestly Skip, I was wondering those same things as I started this thread. Oh, she called our insurance agent and found out that it's only going to cost her $532 every 6 months to insure that car, I was expecting more than that and it's less than $200/yr more than the Charger is!

Lol, I just noticed I caught my 200 and Dad's Town and Country on the far top left of the shot!

I was giving her a bad time about it, both on now having to own a car that's quicker than her big brother's (the 200's with the Pentastar are good for 6 something 0-60 runs and mid 14 second in the quarter.............stock) and that she will probably have to find herself another Cherokee for a winter beater........mine will be in use already

I'll have to see one in better light, especially if Bob can find her one of the remaining Plum Crazy cars still in inventory (apparently the color is no more.) We got to the dealer late enough that the light was both very harsh and low in the sky and made the color hard to tell until the sun went down.........and the dark didn't help that any either.......... BTW, here's the SRT-8 she drove parked next to her Charger.

More like curiousity, My kid sister is looking to trade her 3.5l '06 Charger SE on a new Challenger R/T Classic in either Plum Crazy or Header Orange. The salesman that sold me my 200 Touring a couple years back took her out in the Plum Crazy SRT-8 off the lot for a test drive, then encouraged her to unleash it

Is it me, or is the modern Plum Crazy a lighter shade than the original? I was looking at the newer Plum Crazy Challenger while at the dealership today and it almost looks like it's closer to the Testors' Purplicous than the Model Master Plum Crazy. I'm I seeing things or is that the case?

I was in Westmont after work tonight and had to fill up on the way home so I stopped at a Speedway in Downers Grove that carried E85 and it started pouring while I was filling the car and the amount lightening was incredable, I all but got soaked standing under under the canopy while filling the car and then walking to and from the building!

The customer count can change quickly during the week, we can go from just being myself and the owners in the store to all of us trying to help customers and run the registers and phones within moments and carry on for much of the afternoon.......usually right as there is a BIG order to try and price then stock.

I know of a few people that bought some of the remaining R/C vehicles they had, one I think was owed money for special orders that were prepaid but never filled, so that could have been some of it.