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Re:Why tech makes us dishonest – ways to reduce cheating at ... by castratikron on Monday August 08, 2016 @11:20AM (#12248439)
If the rate of theft is so high, I wonder if switching from barcodes to the more expensive RFID tags would actually end up saving them money.
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Re:Why tech makes us dishonest – ways to reduce cheating at ... by angry_octet on Monday August 08, 2016 @08:55PM (#12251858)
In Australia the high value cuts of meat recently started to have RFID tags embedded in the packaging, so the checkout scanners do have RFID readers in them already. So maybe people have been putting sausage barcodes on the beef fillet.
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