> > Some supermarkets do have staff in the fruit & veg section 
> to do this.  
> > Not many in Australia though, they expect the checkout staff to do 
> > that.  It's not too hard to imagine it happening again.
> 
> The stores in the Netherlands have reversed that system to 
> the supermarket staff checking your vegetable weights, since 
> people would hold the vegetables slightly off the scale to 
> reduce its weight (and thus its price). A cashier doesn't 
> notice the difference between 1 kg and 0.9 kg. How would you 
> avoid that?


By getting the cashier to weigh it, without any 'help' from the customer.
That's how it's done here.  Anyway, that makes up for the old stories of the
butcher putting his thumb on the scales.

To have a fully RFID checkout you'd need to have stuff weighed back at the
fruit section (same as deli is done).

Whether stores go RFID depends on a lot of factors, price being the big one.
Reliability, equipment, warm & fuzzy customers, perception of 'hi-techness',
stock control, faster stocktake, the usual.

I can tell you the ability for the POS sytem to track product expiry dates
would save my local supermarket a few thousand dollars a month.  At present,
they hire temps to go thru and check the dates codes on *every* item.

Tony

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