Definitely not a Best Buy screen shot, they use a system that is called RRS (Retek Retail Systems), nor is it a Circuit City screen shot, they use DPS. This screen shot is from a company using IBM AS/400 servers running JDA MMS Retail. Only company that comes to mind for those are Bed Bath and Beyond and Linen's n Things, otherwise the only other retailer this screen shot would have come from is a small boutique gaming retailer.
Worked for Best Buy for 3 years, Circuit City for a year, and last but not least CompUSA for 3 years. CompUSA used IBM AS/400 & JDA, the screen shot lines up perfectly to JDA.
I called bed bath and beyond and linen's n things and neither of them are planning on a price drop for the xbox 360 on sept 7th. They do however have 600 thread count sheets and everything billy mays has sold on an infomercial at 20% off with a coupon.
About time sometime knew wtf they were looking at. Also, I especially like how the system still runs some kind of year 1999 hack, notice the date range for this price is from 2008 - 12/31/99 which is obviously used as "infinity" now.
I haven't seen an AS/400 in 10 years, but I recognized it the very second I saw it.
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Definitely not a Best Buy screen shot, they use a system that is called RRS (Retek Retail Systems), nor is it a Circuit City screen shot, they use DPS. This screen shot is from a company using IBM AS/400 servers running JDA MMS Retail. Only company that comes to mind for those are Bed Bath and Beyond and Linen's n Things, otherwise the only other retailer this screen shot would have come from is a small boutique gaming retailer.
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Worked for Best Buy for 3 years, Circuit City for a year, and last but not least CompUSA for 3 years. CompUSA used IBM AS/400 & JDA, the screen shot lines up perfectly to JDA.
I called bed bath and beyond and linen's n things and neither of them are planning on a price drop for the xbox 360 on sept 7th. They do however have 600 thread count sheets and everything billy mays has sold on an infomercial at 20% off with a coupon.
About time sometime knew wtf they were looking at. Also, I especially like how the system still runs some kind of year 1999 hack, notice the date range for this price is from 2008 - 12/31/99 which is obviously used as "infinity" now.
I haven't seen an AS/400 in 10 years, but I recognized it the very second I saw it.