It will be the RFID-tagged items that will make it most smooth, IMHO.
The most-smooth shopping experience, that is. The buying part of food. This is the step beyond UPC.
I read of the concept in the very late 1990’s. Very, very late 1990’s. I just happened (or maybe I didn’t just happen) to pick up a trade magazine I never saw before, never read completely nor never read again.
It was on the RFID system to come. I was sitting in my apartment (at that time - I had several) when this commercial came up. Now over 11 years ago.
These systems are real but they are few in number. There are various forms, even for small shops.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eob532iEpqk
Interesting comment on Wal*Mart. I have heard stories on how they make or break vendors (in the very, very late 1990’s I was working at one of their vendors as a consultant - a name you would know - Wal*Mart told them how it was going to be).
Makes me wonder when Wal*Mart will demand THIS type of system.
(BTW, I just awoke from the most unusual dream - involving marketing of “Christianity” - quotes on purpose - to a scene with a huge mural of Jerusalem and apparently the Old City of some sort). Where that came from, I don’t know, LOL
I was thinking, after I woke up, old men dreaming dreams.
Well, I’m not an old man. Not just yet. LOL
Might be that huge Five Guys cheeseburger and fries I had this afternoon.
Yes, liberals out there, I had a cheeseburger and fries and it’s destroying the Earth with Global Warming.
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