The grocery, convenience, and outdoor sports store could accept credit cards and access its servers.
But it’s not always like this.
Coontail Market in Boulder Junction.
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At least once a week, said owner Steve Coon, there is some sort of internet issue.
“It happens way too frequently with DSL, which is the product, of course, that most rural areas have,” he said.
Coon said internet service is not only slow, it’s unreliable.
“Everything that we do is pretty much broadband-based. When the broadband goes out, it’s obviously a problem,” he said.
Internet outages force the store into a workaround to take credit cards and mean its servers struggle to connect with the second Coontail location in Arbor Vitae.