...that to encourage use of his new invention, the shopping cart, market owner Sylvan Goldman hired fake shoppers to push the carts around his store in Oklahoma City? Seems his customers were reluctant to give up their hand-carried baskets.
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| 5289538 | Circuit arrangement for signal and information conversion between analog junction lines and digital terminal devices in communications exchanges A circuit arrangement converts signals and information between analog junction lines and digital terminal devices in communications exchanges. A decentralized control device is provided in order to process and pass on switching criteria and codes received... | 02/22/1994 |