> > The other big hardware place around here has the motto
> > If we haven't got it, you don't need it !
> 
> If that's Mitre 10's motto then it's about correct.
> If not, then it should be.

I was in the New Lynn branch on Monday, looking for T-nails
for the staple gun. Bought them from there before, but this time
they had none. The staff, several of them in fact, went well out
of their way to look around and discuss. Eventually we decided
I should call the owner/manager in the morning to order some.

I'd also picked up a file but in the kerfuffle about the T-nails
left it on the counter, so I'd had to have rung back anyway to
get them to put it aside for me to pick up later

When I rang the manager in the morning, we sorted out the
left-behind file and got some T-nails ordered

Then I said, BTW did you know the time on my receipt is
an hour ahead of when I was there ? No no, he says, the
VDUs at the checkouts are all showing the correct time. No
no, I says, the printed receipt. So he prints out a receipt and
said, in what sounded to me like a worried or concerned
voice, Well, I don't believe that. I'll have to investigate why

Now he has me intrigued

When he rang back to confirm the T-nail order, he said
I'd pointed out something "very serious" wrt the receipt
but he "wouldn't elaborate". He said they use receipts
sometimes to verify misdeeds by shoplifters or phoney
returns, but this was "something bigger than that"

I thought maybe an accounting fraud (anything in the last
hour isn't going through the books), but beyond that no
clue what he could have discovered. Perhaps he's figured
out why the shop isn't appearing to do as well as he thinks
it should

I'll ask him some day, dying to know

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