Posted on 05/21/2006 9:35:29 AM PDT by Nachum
Remove it -- disable it -- you bought the product, you're allowed to do whatever you want with it as well as its packaging. The "chip" isn't that difficult to find in most products, even books.
Don't call me dude, and don't call me Francis either.
Then imagine a pantry which refuses to stock the items you would have, because you have exceeded your state permitted allotments of saturated fats, sugars, and have insufficient fiber on hand....
Well, they don't transmit all by themselves.
I guess the gummit could create a super reader and drive through neigborhoods to track creamed corn, but I don't see why they would.
I agree with mo -- creamed corn looks and smells like canned vomit.
Good! More for me!
You know.. quite honestly I use cash 99% of the time just because I hate anyone knowing anything about my purchases, not that Im buying anything interesting.
I loath those grocery loyalty cards L0L
They track every purshase.
If I dont use one though, the shrimp I bought for 2.72 today would cost 5.45 (real prices)
In my estimation the retailers use this info to increase efficiancy and not to track us.
If they overstocked the shrimp and it went bad, they toss it and take a loss, which they would pass along to us.
Resulting in an everyday cost of 5.45 for those shrimpies
If anyone wants to remove an RFID from a product they purchased, they should be (and are) allowed to do so.
Adding cost to ease that process should not be done.
There -- clear?
I guess the gummit could create a super reader and drive through neigborhoods to track creamed corn, but I don't see why they would.
You will pry my creamed corn from my cold dead fingers!
no single technology with dis-employ more workers then this one - no checkout clerks anymore at the stores, just roll your cart past the sensors, swipe your card, and go.
I apply for those grocery chain cards and lie about everything. Every now and then will say my fake name when they address me (so I make it close but not the same as my real name).
It is my version of Calvin's "I love messing with data."
Here is a very real thought.
Appliances may well be on Broadband Power Line internet in the near future. Its conceivable that an RFID reader could be placed in a fridge that reads the contents and expiration dates and notified you via the web if you were out of a product or if the milk was past expiration.
skeery huh?
>>>I apply for those grocery chain cards and lie about everything.
Our stores require a Driver's License to receive a store card.
Illegals do it daily ;-)
What if they don't know where the chip is, and what if it can't removed. What then kimosabe? Clear?
how long before the Dems claim that the NSA has this data?
Could you explain a little bit what the difference is between active and passive RFID? If an RFID tag is passive, how does the store read it?
Also the entire idea that gubmint is tracking our everymove is silly. Its like the phone records thing. The gubmint simply doest have the power of the will to track all the mundane details of our daily lives
Yes, I agree completely.
Appliances may well be on Broadband Power Line internet in the near future. Its conceivable that an RFID reader could be placed in a fridge that reads the contents and expiration dates and notified you via the web if you were out of a product or if the milk was past expiration.
skeery huh?
I don't need no machine to tell me the milk is sour. I don't really see a consumer benefit there equaling the cost.
Their strike in So Cal proved they (checkout clerks) are too stupid to be employed anyway (most of them, anyway). I was amazed their brains could tell their feet how to move.
And self-serve is becoming more and more prevalent at grocery stores everywhere (I travel for business and stay at Residence Inn so I have seen them all the country).
I would like to use cash, but I am the ATM at my house. I pretty much have to use my debit card anymore.
I dont want anyone to know how long those olives have been there L0L
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.