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Piggly Wiggly: The First Self-Service Grocery Store with Transparent Pricing (userhub.com)
9 points by patrickrafferty 682 days ago
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> 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