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'It hasn't delivered': The spectacular failure of self-checkout technology (www.bbc.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I've never seen a clothing store using RFID tags before but that's quite interesting technology. I've just done some reading up on it and I hope more places start using it it seems convenient and something I'd like to see adopted on a large scale.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Don't know what country you're in, but Decathlon in the UK (and possibly other countries) does this. There are no traditional manned checkouts in there at all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

It's pretty great. Though I'm sure it's built into the price (assuming they're talking about Uniqlo).

On the other hand, being able to walk into the supermarket, fill a trolly, then walk through an archway to get rung up...That would be pretty amazing.