• jj4211@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    Yeah I remember an at in the 90s of rolling a shopping cart without scanning and here we are 30 years on… Still scanning…

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      15 hours ago

      Well, it’s not NFC but Amazon has some convenience stores that can do it, I think there’s a limit on the number of items though.

      I can just imagine a shopping cart full of NFC transceivers screaming out there serial numbers simultaneously.