Momentary Panic at Sobey’s

 I indicated earlier that I was going to take my mother grocery shopping   We went to Obey SS — sorry, I mean Sobeys.

While there, I heard over the intercom that they couldn’t take debit cards because MTS was down and  thus the internet was down, which meant that they could only take cash at the tills. Mom had a shopping cart full of stuff as the announcement was made.  Putting our cash together, we may not have had enough to pay for the cart’s contents.  They then said that some credit cards were working so we could have used mine.

But then they said they were able to take debit cards again.  We retuned to filling the cart,

A local, when hearing from us about this, said this failure of the network was a periodic thing in the province of Manitoba, and that it was always best to have cash on hand.