Overhead Cash Carriers.

@jabouk I certainly do remember those amazing contraptions, and also the suction tubes that sucked cannisters up to the cashiers office. So much more exciting that a contactless debit card.

That’s interesting ,Janet :) Never heard of that and what I know is that of a basket they tied to a pulley in shoe stores. The salesclerk would mumble on a microphone the sizes of the shoes or sandals requested by a customer and the one in charge of stocks on the second floor would put the items on the basket and lower it down to the ground floor.

I remember it .How fast the world goes ahead ! Now we are in the age of mobile payment and the facial recognition-face swiping.

There was one big store in our capital that had this system. Like you, I was fascinated but I have no idea how it worked.

I never saw something like this in my life.

No I do not but good for you. I love it when something takes me back.

I heard of it but never remember being in a big store when a child. Mostly I remember the little corner mom and pop store where I was sent a block to get bread or milk during the week

I do not Jabo not at all. This is fascinating.

No, we never had those where I grew up - probably because we're decades behind the rest of the world LOL But it's definitely something I would have enjoyed as a child.

I never heard of that until now.

No, I don't remember those but I can see why you would as it sounds so unique. That tells me that there was no standing in line to pay for your purchases, how nice.

aw, sweet! no ma'am, i don't reckon i've e'ery seen such'n person. marvelous engineerin' back'n the day :)

I've never seen this. Interesting concept. Must be the predecessor of the tube at banks and the pharmacist has one too.

No but I have seen them in old movies.

I have never seen one although I recall the suction tubes I would use at my back when I'd make a deposit. Now adays everything is automatic deposit saving me a trip to the bank.

I've never seen this before. That's really interesting to know.

The huge co-op department store in the city centre had this system or something like it. If I remember right it was a vaccum tube and the capsule they put the money in would be put in the tube and they would pull a lever and you could see it shoot up the tube to the overhead system and it would rocket off to the cashiers office and like you said it would return with your change.I used to be fascinated by them I loved watching them shoot off, Each check out at the local supermarket here in Villa has one of these tubes and I have seen the checkout people put bundles of notes in the containers and press a button and off it shoots lol

Oh wow; that's interesting. Maybe they need that today instead of cashiers being robbed @jaboUK.

@jaboUK Sorry, I do not remember that. It sounds very interesting.

The odd thing is, I saw some supermarket staff using some similar system just last year or so, not exactly like that in the image, but vertically or something. I stood there watching them, so fascinated by the whole process.