I avoid AutoZone as much as I can except for loaner tools. That said, O’Reilly hasn’t given me grief… yet.
All of them use custom point of sale systems running off Dell or HP thin clients and either Oracle NetSuite or even a custom Java/HTML5 app running off Firefox or Chrome on a Linux distribution. Home Depot does the same - custom Java app for point of sales running on Windows 10 using off the shelf Dell Optiplex computers. It would be too much for these guys to spend money on Oracle XStore(or Toshiba/NCR retail sales middleware), Windows/MSSQL CAL licensing and support, and dedicated point of sale systems from HP, NCR, Toshiba and Fujitsu are expensive.
All of them use custom point of sale systems running off Dell or HP thin clients and either Oracle NetSuite or even a custom Java/HTML5 app running off Firefox or Chrome on a Linux distribution. Home Depot does the same - custom Java app for point of sales running on Windows 10 using off the shelf Dell Optiplex computers. It would be too much for these guys to spend money on Oracle XStore(or Toshiba/NCR retail sales middleware), Windows/MSSQL CAL licensing and support, and dedicated point of sale systems from HP, NCR, Toshiba and Fujitsu are expensive.