In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Rosing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah, and it takes a second or 2 to find the bar code. That's got > to cost a few pennies doesn't it :-)
It adds up, especially in low-margin businesses. Groceries are a good example; unpacking every cart, scanning, and bagging is an expensive bottleneck. The process could be streamlined a lot if an entire cart were scanned at once. There are serious engineering problems before we get there; but the demand from retailers is very real, and so a very real effort will be made to solve them. -- Shields.
