On 05/18/2012 12:52 PM, Merrill Oveson wrote: > What I'd really like to see... > In the 1990's AT&T had an ad, showing someone pushing a grocery cart > full of groceries right thru a scanner and > then the total would be calculated - no need to empty the cart. > I guess the idea was RFID tags on each package. > > That was in the 1990s - Twenty years later and we're still buying > groceries the same dumb way - and I hate waiting in line to buy my > food! > > What happened?
I think, from the perspective of the grocery stores, that giving up a place where you have customers stop for a few minutes next to impulse buys (magazines, candy, etc next to the checkout line) was too much of a downside. :) /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
