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Piggly Wiggly: The First Self-Service Grocery Store with Transparent Pricing

by patrickrafferty on 8/10/24, 8:28 PM with 1 comments

• by 082349872349872 on 8/10/24, 10:18 PM

  > Our next post will trace the roots of modern commerce back to the National Cash Register, the first fintech company.

  I recall seeing somewhere that IBM was just an across-the-board increment to NCR:

    National      -> International
    Cash Register -> Business Machines