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Understanding the Problems Technology Cannot Solve

The benefits from technology are nearly unending. They include less time to receive and control inventory, to do or adjust pricing, and fewer man hours for tracking and scheduling. All of the automated payroll functions greatly reduce man hours and the number of personnel needed for those administrative functions. At the store level, the use of bar coding and hand-held computers for inventory control has greatly enhanced the efficiency of those operations.

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