Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores

Re:Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery S... by michaelt on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @02:33PM (#39909262)

> I think a further improvement on a system like that would be to use the cheap RFID tech

Unfortunately I doubt you'll ever see this happen.

Sure, it's supposedly possible to buy an RFID chip for 1p - but you can buy a can of beans for 23p so that 1p is probably their entire profit margin.

I've also worked with a variety of RFID readers; none of them can provide reliable reading, even in favourable conditions.

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Re:Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery S... by JohnFen on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @05:34PM (#39911105)

I think there's another technical issue with using RFID. If you have a basket of a few dozen different RFID chips, there's going to be a lot of collisions in the data they transmit, further reducing reliability.

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Re:Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery S... by vkou on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @05:39PM (#39911143)

Exactly how many beans does this 23p 'can' contain? Is it more than a dozen?

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Re:Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery S... by wrboyce on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @04:54PM (#39922986)

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/258290127

If my Business Studies teacher ~20 years ago was, and still is, correct then they are a loss leader.

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