• D61 [any]
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    3 years ago

    in Soviet department stores it took three clerks to sell a piece of meat

    This feels like a weird joke... but in all seriousness: One to take the order, one to cut/package the meat, and a cashier. Seems reasonable to me.

    Like, if I go to Walmart and get some sliced lunch meat/cheese from the deli there's at least two clerks that I need to deal with. The person taking the order/cutting/packaging the product and the cashier to ring me out. Doesn't sound like that big of a deal.

    • bobby_digital [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      it seemed like an apocryphal detail and made me a little worried as i've heard Debt has been criticized for some of its historical claims, but when you describe like that it really does sound completely ordinary