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This is why you keep redundancy around powered by pen and paper rather than electricity. If nothing else at least keep physical records.

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That's Sweden, its highly illegal to do trades while disconnected from the Nanny [State].

Downvoters aren't realizing what cash registers required to report every sale to the tax authority even for groceries

> That's Sweden, its highly illegal to do trades while disconnected from the Nanny [State].

This sort of implies that cash registers must be connected online to the tax authority or some governmental function in order to operate. That is simply not true.

No, but you need to have a cash register approved by the tax authority. The cash register used by Coop the part of the system that was attacked. Coop could switch to a different approved cash register system, but that's presumably a fairly large project.

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