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|\SHINGTON — The new electronic checkouts that ping, click
ill to total your grocery bill as the coded items pass a scanner may
t of business just as they are coming into widespread use.
3ut 300 supermarkets have installed the checkouts, which cost
$200,000 per store. But legislation has been introduced in 30
to require that prices continue to be marked on individual items,
ie Office of Technology Assessment, a congressional agency that
des studies on various issues, said such legislation has “rendered
iture of the electronic checkout uncertain at best. ”
Ie legislation has been prompted by fears that the devices will
it in an end to the current practice of marking the price on each
lar or bag of food.
e scanners read, electronically, a code printed on each package,
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|)st groceries now are manufactured with the printed codes. When
s change the computer can he adjusted to register the current
instead of the coded one when the item passes its laser scanner
e being bagged.
eoretically, the scanner would let supermarkets do away with
sthat now mark each individual item. It would be necessary only
t a price on the shelf below each group of groceries.
(surveys have indicated consumer resistance to the idea and most
snow employing the devices still put prices on each item,
e report said that eliminating individual pricing “opens up pos
hes for automated or semi-automated stocking of supermarket
es,” but requiring price marking “could prevent a test of a system
leing introduced.
quiring individual price marking also could adversely affect the
th of “high-volume, low-price discount or warehouse-type food
s,” the report said.
e report said an end to price marking would threaten some 1.7
on employees currently holding clerk and stock jobs in the na-
grocery stores, but said the impact could be lessened through job
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AUSTIN, Texas — A law doubling
the educational requirement for ob
taining a Texas real estate license has
swamped private and public schools
with last minute students and
prompted a horde of license applica
tions filed with the Real Estate
Commission.
Effective Jan. 1, Texans must have
180 classroom hours of real estate
study to obtain a license. The re
quirement now is for only 90 hours.
“That’s what brought the rush on, ”
said Camilla Shannon of the Real Es
tate Commission. “They’re enrolling
by the hundreds, and they’re apply
ing for licenses by the thousands.”
She is not exaggerating.
AMERICAN COLLEGE OF
Real Estate, the largest propietary
school in Texas teaching real estate
classes, offers evidence of the over
flow of would-be real estate agents.
“Our enrollment increased like
you wouldn’t believe,” said Steve
Mettling. “We went from about 800
enrollments a month to over 2,200 a
month. It started gradually in June.
It exploded after Labor Day. We had
to double up our classes and tap
every one of our some 200 instruc
tors to teach our classes.”
Schools in most of the state’s major
cities are operating day arid night,
seven days a week, to allow students
to finish the 90-hour educational re-
quirement and apply for their
licenses before the Jan. 1 law takes
effect.
“Everybody is trying to get under
the deadline,” said Harold German,
owner and operator of the Dyer
School of Real Estate in San Antonio,
which specializes in preparing stu
dents for the license test and does
not offer classroom hours which
count toward the educational re
quirement.
“IF YOU GET your hours-artcl file
an application before Dec. 31, then
you have a whole year to take your
exam and that’s where the gold rush
comes in.”
While private schools have hand
led the brunt of the rush of real estate
students, public colleges also are in
volved.
“Gracious, it is something,” said
Quanita Wallace, an officer in the
community relations department at
Houston Community College. “All
of our semester real estate courses
filled up and we started having six-
week quick courses. All the 152
quick courses are completely full,
averaging 30 people.”
The new educational require
ments, adopted by the Legislature in
1975 as part of a Real Estate License
Act, also require brokers after Jan. 1
to have 225 hours of classroom in
struction rather than 185.
The requirements increase each
year, until by 1985 real estate agents
will have to have the equivalent of a
junior college diploma in order to
qualify for a license.
“WHEN THE LAW went into ef
fect in 1975, the University of Texas
was about the only school I know of
that offered a degree in real estate.
Now most major universities have a
degree in real estate and there has
been a tremendous step up in real
estate courses offered in junior and
senior colleges,” said Gerhardt
Schulle, lobbyist for the Texas Real
Estate Association.
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