What a pain in the ass it is to wait in line, unload all my sh*t, scan every single item, put it in sacks, then put it back in the basket.

yeah they need a robot that just takes a picture of everything in my cart and gives me a bill.

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What a pain in my mom's ass it is to wait in line, unload all the sh*t she is buying for me to eat while I sit in my room and play xbox, scan every single item, put it in sacks, then put it back in the basket.

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fify

http://www.macrumors.com/2013/03/20/walmart-expanding-scan-go-iphone-self-checkout-to-over-200-stores/

Sometimes, you have to do things. And those things take time. And that's okay.

Self checkouts are a step in the right direction. RFID chipping would be too expensive, but I could envision a smart-cart/scanner solution that might work. Fraud becomes an issue when you have people doing everything through the phone.

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Hey everyone look how tough gyrene thinks she is. If you weren't a woman I'd whoop your ass.

RFID should speed things along.

Would the RFID's be disabled once you left the store?

I wouldn't want a bunch of corporations tracking down where I live.

The HEB in Temple just did away with all their self checkout lines. Too much theft.

RFID does seem cool, though.

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Hey everyone look how tough gyrene thinks she is. If you weren't a woman I'd whoop your ass.

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Time. Place.

I would pay an assortment of American dollars and Mexican pesos to see Gyrene and finc duke it out.

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Would the RFID's be disabled once you left the store?

I wouldn't want a bunch of corporations tracking down where I live.

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RFID tags, particularly the passive ones that would be used in this kind of application, are short range. Plus they probably wouldn't track a particular package, just a SKU.

I kind of wonder just how cheap RFID could go. Right now it's too expensive, but if someone like Walmart were to start chipping everything (not just pallets like they do now), the economics would improve drastically.


In any case, if you want to know the future of this kind of thing, just keep an eye on Walmart. That's generally where the innovations happen.

My vision of ideal grocery shopping is a cart with a bar code scanner and plastic bag dispenser built in. I tell it who I am (it already knows my account info because I've shopped there before) and I take items off the shelf, scan the bar code, and bag it up. When I'm done, I hit the pay now button, and take my crap to the car. Done and Mf'ing done.

But yeah, theft is gonna be a bit of a hurdle with that model. We'll see...

lolpoor without a personal grocery shopper

RFID is the way to go, basically you would run your cart through a scanner, like toll roads, and it'll spit out your bill. Problem is the chips for RFID are too expensive for every single manufacturer to put one on every single product they make. Think bar codes.

Give it a few years and you can even get a robot to wipe yo' lazy azz. I mean, RFID will be cheap enough to obey your every wish.

http://youtu.be/9VQaQ1HIetA

I would have thought RFID would be cheap enough to deploy and what is holding it back would be just logistics issues and sorting out workflows.

Not quite the same thing, but NFC tags (a form of rfid) are still pretty pricey but I figure that is just because its a spec that hasn't really seen a lot of consumer adoption, and therefore economies of scale haven't been developed to exploit.

5 pack of Samsung NFC TecTiles for 10 bucks

hbc, bill burr is hysterical. good grief i needed that

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The HEB in Temple just did away with all their self checkout lines. Too much theft.

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Or they hated that they were taking away jobs from people like lex.

BC they want people to stand in one spot for 5 minutes and start at the candy and tabloids and end up buying some of them...

Big Candy and Big Tabloid holding back technology.

ibWonkaMeme

This is why we order groceries online and have them delivered

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This is why we order groceries online and have them delivered

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big city livin'

OH LOOK AT US WE HAVE INTERNET ACCESS

Big city living

Do you order produce online too? How do you know if it's ripe if you can't squeeze the melons?

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Do you order produce online too? How do you know if it's ripe if you can't squeeze the melons?

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And yet the mail order bride business is constantly booming

I hear melon squeezing can be a profitable venture.

Lol...until trashy people can have their welfare cards monitored for what they buy, this is an issue for the backburner.

Passive RFID is the most exceptable at the moment, but it is by no means perfect. Ideally you could put all items with passive RFID tags on them in your cart and run said cart through a checkout station which would read all the chips, you pay and it out the door in no time. The problem with this is the effectiveness of the RFID chips and their ability to be block, particularly by metals and liquids. This opens up the opportunity for theft much more than it is right now.