OT: neural networks and filePro

[Bill Vermillion]

GCC Consulting, the prominent pundit, on Wed, Nov 17 19:31  while half 
mumbling half-witicized: 

>  

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com 
> > [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf 
> > Of Bill Vermillion

> > Subject: Re: OT: neural networks and filePro
> > 
> > On Wed, Nov 17 12:45  Kenneth Brody said 'Who you talkin' to? 
> > You talkin'
> > to Kenneth Brody?  I didn't do nuttin'.  I said: 
> > 
> > > GCC Consulting wrote:

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> > > I tend to get the opposite at A&P and ShopRite. Whatever I
> > > buy, I tend to get coupons based on what I'm buying at that
> > > time, but for the competitor's product. If I buy Gerber's
> > > baby food, I will get a coupon for BeechNut. If I buy a box
> > > of Kellog's cereal, I'll get a coupon for General Mills.
> > > And so on.

> > Do you mean at checkout time.  I see that locally too, so 
> > when you buy product A from vendor H, you get a coupon 
> > printed along with your receipt for product A from vendor M.

> > Since I never buy M I don't know if I bought product A from 
> > them I would get a store generated coupon for vendor H.

> > I suspect it has to do with $$ changing hands as does shelf 
> > placement and shelf space.

> Yes, at checkout time.  But these were for a type of product not a specific
> product.  Always for some toddler product.  If it was for a specific brand, I
> didn't notice as it annoyed me to have to wait for this to print out.  Foodtown
> recently upgraded the printers to thermal printers which print faster and are
> quiet.  Can you imagine the noise from 15 little dot matrix printer printing
> register receipts and a second printer printing coupons and point score totals,
> and special purchases available with your points.

I don't know the last time I saw any place with dot-matrix
printers.  With the thermals there is an image of the product on
the coupon too.  So if you bought Dannon yogurt, you mgith get
a coupon for another brand of yogurt on checkout.

It was always an alternate brand from one you were purchasing.

Bill
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