By Steve Ranger, 8 August 2006 09:00
Dubbed Ker'Ching, the shop displays many technologies including RFID, electronic shelf-edge labels, contactless payments and kiosks.
Photo credit: Steve Ranger.
Photos: Inside the shop of the future
RFID, PDAs, electronic labels - is this how retail will look?
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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