At 12:08 PM 7/19/2005, ialwilliams wrote: >I attended a retail EDI/B2B seminar recently and the consultant >mentioned RFID checkout trials to get rid of queues/lines at the >checkout by using RFID tags on all items. You load your trolley in >the store and walk past a scanner and are presented with a bill for >everything in the trolley. It's a nice idea; no unloading and re- >loading the trolley at the checkout. > >Unfortunately (for the supermarkets) the trials demonstrated that if >you line your (metal) trolley with cheap canned goods and other >cheap metal goods like baking trays, you don't get charged for the >caviar and champagne that you've carefully placed in the middle of >the trolley.
Another problem with this from consumers' point of view is that they can't check prices as they are scanned. Errors do occur - prices loaded into the store's computer do not always match the marked or advertised. But alert consumers can spot these errors as the items are individually scanned. There is no way to do this with this system. -- Tom Brandt Northtech Systems, Inc. 130 S. 1st Street, Suite 220 Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1343 http://www.northtech.com/ . Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Access the list online at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
