Abstract: A method for implementing a cutover of a subscriber telephone line from a telephone line of a first exchange to a telephone line of a second exchange, includes the following steps: providing a controllable switch that is operative, in response to a control signal, to couple the subscriber telephone line to either the telephone line of the first exchange or the telephone line of the second exchange; providing a controller, coupled with at least one of the telephone line of the first exchange and the telephone line of the second exchange, for producing the control signal, coupled to the switch, upon receiving a predetermined signal over said at least one of the telephone line of the first exchange and the telephone line of the second exchange; initially setting the switch to couple the subscriber telephone line to the telephone line of the first exchange; and sending the predetermined signal over at least one of the telephone line of the first exchange and the telephone line of the second exchange, whereby the

Abstract: An automated shopping order entry system has particularly advantageous features for use in a supermarket having a delicatessen station. A processor subsystem, a customer subsystem, and an employee subsystem are provided. The customer subsystem can be located in the view of customers entering at a customer entrance that is typically remote from the delicatessen station. The customer can select delicatessen items and gets a printout of item selection and of estimated waiting time based on an accumulated variable workload that depends on items ordered by customers. Shopping efficiency is increased by making automated shopping available to the customer at an advantageous place and time in the shopping pattern, and by handling waiting time in an advantageous manner.