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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What ever happened to doing this with UHF RFID? Getting the cost of the individual chips down was always just a matter of scaling production.

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

They weren't just tracking what you bought. They wanted to track what you looked at and for how long, to learn what packaging worked best.