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Future Technologies in Supermarkets.
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Future Technologies in Supermarkets To some, it is the first step towards an Orwellian nightmare of personality-profiling and Big Brother-style monitoring. To others, it is simply the most efficient way of doing business. The latest trials of controversial electronic radio tags that allow store bosses to keep track of individual goods are currently taking place. Tesco chiefs are piloting the chips, which contain a code similar to a product's barcode but unique to that actual item, at branches in Sandhurst, Berkshire, and Leicester. There was controversy earlier in 2003 when the tracking system was used in the packaging of Gillette Mach3 razor blades to stop shoplifting at one of the store chain's Cambridge branches. I'm not talking about an Orwellian nightmare that may or may not occur. This is on it's way Human rights campaigners criticised the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) scheme, saying that anyone with the right kind of scanning...
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