Infinity is the only one here who will post 3rd or 4th and claim to be "FIRST". That should show all of us what generational inbreeding will do to someone. HEY INFINITY, HOW'S UNCLE DAD AND AUNT MOM DOING?
No legitimacy for the FIRST claim. Bigtime - might as well claim the credit, despite it being moot - you have it.
Me: I have no interest with have bigger fish to fry - PostFirstStressDisorder counseling & posting meaningless but morally straight comments to the unfortuantely stupid.
Well that's all fine and dandy... but it'll take my mountian grocery stores decades to catch up to THAT technology........ and that's fine with me.
But this looks like another fine way to keep the human experience out of shopping. I like my cashiers at the market. Think of all those lonely old people who go to the store daily just to have someone to talk to, someone familiar. Call me old fashioned but I'd rather deal with a real person. I bet this will happen sooner than we can guess.
this is a simple waste of time, and would never be implemented outside of novelty stores (or so help us god).
a secure RFID chipping method at the manufacturing level with still printed UPC codes on the products would eliminate the entire act of scanning bar codes, you would simply walk out of the store with your groceries (if you so please) or they could have compartmentalized shopping bag area's in the cart, where you could have paper bags (as I sure hope we aren't using plastic at this point) laid out for you assuming you did not bring canvas bags (which, by weight, can hold up to 3-4 times more than the average paper bag, which already can hold up to 3-4 times the weight of a plastic bag. I'm not an environmentalist, I'm lazy.)
anyway, do your grocery shopping, leave. this whole process of taking pictures is simply ridiculous.
oh and to account for the human factor, I always thought there should be much more interaction anyway in grocery stores. I believe the people normally bagging groceries, should walk around the store in shifts to help out customers instead of wasting their time up front. This way you get immediate help from someone who knows the exact layout of the store, and where each individual item is. Considering they would have no need to be up front the entire time, they would be able to even help you out to checkout and always be able to provide carry out service, to help load the bags into your car.
human problem, time problem, efficiency problem all solved in a few simple steps. you would be in and out in at least half the time assuming you know what it is you want, and aren't one of those schmucks who looks and shops, know what you want before you enter or make two trips when you realize what you forgot. don't waste the time looking for something that you remember halfway to the checkout, you'll get anxious and the chances of forgetting where it's at are much more likely.
@anonymous: So you think these people don't know about RFID? At this time it is neither technically nor economically feasible. So cellphone scanning is a reasonable step in between.
@thebug: lol no it's not. a more feasible and economical way, would be to have a free program with a list of items currently being sold in store, that you could arrange at home and then it would automatically compile this and have you check out with it.
I hope you know this won't prevent people from ripping off the store with simply not paying for items. RFID becomes extremely economical at a manufacturing level, as the price will be included in the bulk cost of buying the item, and the consumer will ultimately be paying a higher price, however you would be paying for convenience and the price would eventually go down as the technology increases. Not to mention the store would be able to monitor items much easier, and be able to keep up stock automatically.
This would cut the cost for the grocery store on the simple principle that a ton of jobs would be replaced by the technology. You basically could just hire a few loss protection guards and everyone else besides specialty departments would not be required. I don't know how or where you get your logic.
They had that store running completely on RFID before. The customer cards had RFID in them too, without them telling the customers though. That backfired a little bit when it came up and they downgraded on the Big Brother a bit since then.
what, no old man at the door telling you to have a nice time shopping?
The modern life has no conversations, the future has no people, there is no future.
I like the little hottie at the check-out and my cell-phone know too much about me now.
as soon as the grocery store has your fingerprint, someone could easily replicate it by grabbing it off that nifty little wine glass you just used from the trash.
I then could go on a shopping spree at your expense.
I think that's a very nice example of what we can do with technology nowadays: come up with overcomplicated shitty solutions that probably don't work to cope with problems that didn't exist to begin with! To make it futuristic they should have invented some new photovoltaic panels to put on their roof or something.. but I guess taking pictures of bar codes is cool too!
classic case indeed! but they're gonna find problems as soon as roger the talking bowling pin becomes self-aware of his stupid appearance and completely wrong voice.. then in a few decades when we're batteries the little robots will learn about the german shopping mall that started this new era. Apart from that it's brilliant!
This is just another bunch of propaganda put forth by the Germans to have us believe that they are contributing something to the world that would make up for a little mistake they made about 70 years ago
He he. Not being a football fan at all it was quite fun to watch the game with a friend last night and see him getting mad at the trainer and players. For me the highlight of the match was a Glenlivet Nadurra :))
Infinity had a credit card once. But he couldn't understand how it worked and racked up $20,000 debt in the first week. Now he sells his ass to make the minimum payment.
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