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Barcodes are about to go extinct

107 points · 151 comments · rmason

  1. hollow-moe · · focus · HN ↗
    What a bad piece. Optical is obsolete. Decathlon (here in France at least) has RFID on all their products, they're used as anti-theft, automatic tilling: you just put them in a box at the register and it knows what it is (also kills the chips once paid) and very likely they're used all along the logistic chain.
    1. usrnm · · focus · HN ↗
      Decathlon does it in every country, not just France. Same with Uniqlo and a few others, but it's still only very large chains that can afford it
      1. seanmcdirmid · · focus · HN ↗
        Uniqlo does it in the states now. It’s the first time I encountered it though (well, except for Uniqlo in Japan, even Muji is still using bar codes).
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