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Check out this BBC video of the German "Supermarket of the Future," which appears to be an actual working supermarket, not some concept. Microchipped food packages, "intelligent freezers," cell phone bar code interfaces, and even interactive games in the seafood section.
By far the coolest feature is that you scan items (with your cellie) as you collect them; at the end your phone produces a single bar code containing the prices of everything, so you run that over the scanner for a superfast checkout.
To our readers in Germany--have any of you used this yet?
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And I don't think scanning myself while collecting is cool. That would be annoying as hell. Why don't they use RFID eveywhere?
We have something like it in our local grocery store in columbus but you don't use your cell phone. You get one of those nice Symbol hand-held scanners and walk through the store and as you scan you put everything in bags inside the cart and then scan the deal at the register and even program it to automatically charge your credit card on file if you scan your store 'reward' card....store is located in New Albany Ohio.
This is the "real.-" (used to be called Metro future store) future store, the rfid version is still alive in this market i think (the meat packages in the movie still have them) you can choose which way you wanna pay rfid or this new mobile phone version ...
here is the official site:
http://www.future-store.org/fsi-internet/html/en/459/index.html
greetings from Germany
I didn't come across such a supermarket in Germany yet, but the cellphone scanning would be cool to keep track of your costs while you are shopping! Through that you won't run into a costly surprise at the cashier!