On 05/18/2012 01:18 PM, Rich Li wrote: > 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. :) > +1 Insightful
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