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Here in Japan Uniqlo’s self checkout is awesome, you dump the clothes into a bin and then it wirelessly/barcodelessly scans everything and just tells you the total. Idk if they’re doing that in the USA yet.


It’s also available in the UK.

Easily, the best self checkout I’ve ever used.


Decathlon does that in Romania.


Probably everywhere. It does mean that every single one of their items carries an RFID tag which is a privacy issue and an environment issue.


It can be an environmental issue, sure, but how would it be a privacy one? Items already have a unique number of some sort, I don't see how storing it on an RFID tag changes things.


I guess unless that tag is deactivated at checkout, you might now be wearing a unique collection of RFID tags?


The RFID is in the sales tag, so unless you're walking around with the tags still attached…


No, for clothing they are in the same label that tells you how to wash it and for other items they are in some easy to miss sticker.




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