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Old August 12, 2003, 03:54 AM
Michael Ross (Aust, Qld)
 
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Default I agree with one thing you said... the rest... well...

> While some might look at such devices as
> designed to monitor and invade personal
> privacies, I think they do have a beneficial
> purpose. I would imagine that these devices
> reduce the incidence of theft, which in turn
> reduces theft-related losses. With lower
> overall theft in a community, there are
> lower costs to doing business and
> competition can drive prices lower which
> ultimately benefits the end consumer.

> So, indirectly, I would say these devices
> save you money. :)

Thomas, now you're spinning.

Since when does any retail GIANT reduce prices? Even ColesMyer is cutting out their shareholder discount. And speaking with an enployee recently, even the employee discount is heading to the chopping block.

IF the supermarket wants to stop theft, let them use a normal tag. Not an ID type tag.

As for stock control and keeping track of stock... the car accessory chain SuperCheap has a brilliant system in place and they do NOT use tags.

When you buy something at SuperCheap, the purchase is registered in a computer. Back at head office, that item is removed from the store in question's inventory and AUTOMATICALLY re-ordered from the warehouse and gotten ready for the restocking truck. This means, come the next morning when the restock truck arrives at the store, it is carrying replacements for all the goods that sold the previous day. No "smart tags" needed.

General electronic tags may stop theft. They don't need to be ID tags. And stock control is already handled well. The individual numbering of stock serves no other purpose than tracking the buyer. As stock is already kept track of electronically with bar codes.

Bit by bit we are losing our freedom and privacy. And people welcome it each time another bit is taken away under whatever guise is used. A person arriving in our time from the '50s would be horrified at how much freedom and privacy we have given away.

Michael Ross
 


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