Our Company collection includes a selection of shop-floor and back-office hardware, ranging from historical cash registers right up to computers for merchandise management from the company’s IT department. These objects reflect the rapid advances in technology, as well as C&A’s constant endeavour to optimise its administrative, control and planning processes and thus also to increase sales. 
Prior to the introduction of electronic data processing, simple mechanical cash registers were still the norm right up to the 1960s. This 1950s cash register, made by Anker-Werke AG in Bielefeld, stood on the cash desk to the left of the cashier, followed in the middle by a cutting device for detaching sections of the label and, on the right, the drawer containing the small change. One section of the label was given to the customer as a receipt, while the remainder enabled the predominantly female workforce to compile tally sheets of what goods were actually being sold.