Wednesday, September 21, 2011

New Must-Read 'That's Chuch' Post



That's church is probably my favorite Pittsburgh blog (I don't know of all of them, but of those I know it's my favorite, k? k.)

Read her newest post about the Wine Kiosks at the grocery stores in PA. 

Best part: 

"“Okay, we want to put wines into the hands of our consumers more easily. We can do that two ways. We can spend a couple million dollars to have customized kiosks the size of actual Kias. The customers will have to swipe their ID card. When they swipe the ID card, that will trigger a search in our database to pull up that person’s driver’s license while the customer is asked to blow into a breathalyzer and then stand very still and look into a camera. We will then hire staff, we’ll call them wizards, to man computers in Harrisburg who will have remote access to every single transaction that takes place at the kiosks all over the state, and they will be charged with matching up the face to the license, confirming the breathalyzer readout, and then if nothing went wrong with all that technology — the scanner, the breathalyzer, the camera, the database, the delivery mechanism, the doohickeys, and the whatsits — the technician will then approve the sale at which time, hopefully, the machine will recognize the command coming from Harrisburg and allow the customer to purchase a bottle of wine.  OR, option two, we could let the grocery stores sell wine.”



That, my friends, IS church. 


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