Technology

59495 readers

3114 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

121

A supermarket trip may soon look different, thanks to electronic shelf labels (www.npr.org)

submitted 5 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

83 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] nolefan33@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

As long as you have a free market and not a coordinated one it will work out great for you guys too

Ah, so we're fucked

[–] Oisteink@feddit.nl 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Aren’t they already in use by some stores? M

Maybe most of this is just circus to keep you worried?

The thing I don’t like about them is the BT tracking/detection. Not seen any system with the capability to track individuals, but it will show heat maps of where people spend time and clump up. This comes “free” as it’s usually zigbee or similar radios that are used, and these support BT

[–] nolefan33@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah, I'm not actually that worried. I've seen these in use at hardware stores for quite a while now. It's just useful to assume that Walmart is planning to fuck you over. That's a good point with BT though, many of the kind of microcontrollers that would be used for this sort of thing offer BT connectivity as well.

[–] SaltySalamander@fedia.io 1 points 5 months ago

They're definitely in use by Best Buy