We owe the invention of our modern day cash register to a Dayton, Ohio saloonkeeper, James J. Ritty. Frustrated by dishonest bartenders who helped themselves to saloons profits, Ritty also desired a more efficient method to track sales than haphazard...

A cash register (also called a till) is a mechanical or electronic device for calculating and recording sales transactions, and an attached cash drawer for storing currency. The cash register also usually prints a receipt for the customer. In most...

What's holding up the checkout line? No, not who's holding it up. There is no need to dive under the counter. What's going on there is merely an etiquette standoff. Nevertheless, Miss Manners doesn't know how that "merely" slipped in. The desire...

BELFAST - A cook and maintenance man for Rollie's Bar and Grill was charged with burglary and theft after a security camera captured him looting the cash register. Stevan Hill, 25, of Belfast was arrested early Sunday, moments after the camera recorded him...

Forbes magazine is out with its annual report on the business of baseball and the big news isn't that the New York Yankees would have broken even last year if they didn't have to pay A-Rod's salary.The Yankees are the loss leaders of major league...

A teenager arrested for shoplifting had filled her pockets with so many items that her pants dropped to her ankles as she tried to run out of the store, police said.Cheyanne E. Dwiggins, 18, is accused of trying to steal candy, kitchen utensils and a...