Andrew Gideon wrote in
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On Sun, 20 May 2007 11:39:08 +0000, Larry Dighera wrote:

Those airman who feel as you do as a result of LocMart's failure to
meet their performance standards are probably what they are banking
on to break even.

I'm thinking about bank tellers and ATM machines. The ATM machines
permitted the number of tellers to drop. Then the ATM fees started.
The number of tellers didn't go [back] up.

- Andrew



Prior to the introduction of ATMs, banks kept "banker's hours". They
were open from 10 AM to 3 PM Monday through Thursday and until 5 PM on
Friday. Lines at lunch hour were much longer then than now.

Shortly after the introduction of ATM's, there was at least one bank
that for a while actually imposed a 50 cent fee on its own customers for
using a teller rather than the ATM if their account was below some limit.

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Marty Shapiro
Silicon Rallye Inc.

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