<story><title>Shopify POS</title><url>http://www.shopify.com/pos</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>programminggeek</author><text>I realize that POS is a term that is widely used as a TLA for point of sale, but it feels like Shopify POS is an unfortunate name given that it&amp;#x27;s also a TLA for piece of sh*t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mitchellh</author><text>POS is the standard industry term for this kind of software. Anybody who would actually buy this product would never mistake this. And anyone who might mistake it for the other meaning needs only to click through to see it is indeed a POS system.</text></comment>
<story><title>Shopify POS</title><url>http://www.shopify.com/pos</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>programminggeek</author><text>I realize that POS is a term that is widely used as a TLA for point of sale, but it feels like Shopify POS is an unfortunate name given that it&amp;#x27;s also a TLA for piece of sh*t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xal</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s the industry&amp;#x27;s term. I was very tempted to headline the whole launch as &amp;quot;Shopify: First POS that&amp;#x27;s not a POS.&amp;quot; but alas..</text></comment>