RFID, PDAs, electronic labels - is this how retail will look?
By Steve Ranger, 8 August 2006 09:00
BT has built this mock-up of the shop of the future in its London headquarters, with the aim of showing off some of the tech developments that could be hitting a high street near you soon.
Photo credit: Steve Ranger.
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1. retail therapist
Hardly futuristic! With the exception of RFID, ICL were demonstrating all of this technology more than ten years ago at their retail exhibition centre in Bracknell.
2. Flemming Jönsson
Looks like The Humans to suport sales is gone fishing... Flemming J?on