[LINK] Google Wallet, Hate and Gloating in Forbes

[Fernando Cassia]

When I read this article I was instantly reminded of a funny line from
the Cohen Brothers film "Burn after Reading" when one of the
characters says "you´re worse than a moron, you´re part of a League of
Morons".

http://www.forbes.com/sites/quickerbettertech/2011/09/26/google-launches-the-ultimate-jobs-killer/2/

Watch out for gloating about "killing unproductive jobs", and snide
remarks on supermarket employees and, of course, government, who
apparently can train people but "only so much" (ie there´s little
point in training idiots, seems to be his angle).

btw: his entire reasoning is flawed, he can´t just scan barcodes and
walk away with his merchandise, because who will check he paid for
everything he bought?, guess he will have to unload everything again.
;)

The solution to his "Problems" (if one can call it that) are two:

1. Web sites and home delivery. I don´t know about the US of A but
down here all major supermarket chains have web sites where you can
order stuff and have it delivered, in some instances the same day, in
others the next day, for really little cost. In two instances you pay
on-line, in other the delivery cleak that arrives to your home carries
a posnet card reader that works wirelessly (a card swiper connected
via GSM/3G)

2. RFID tags built into every packing container of stuff you buy at
the supermarket. That would really help the supermarket tally
everything you´re walking away without the tedious unloading-reloading
of stuff. But in this approach the cashier at the supermarket would
keep his job (it has to, anyway, for people that would still pay
cash).

3. In other words, payment is NOT the delay, so Google Wallet or
no-wallet doesn´t make any difference with regards to the "tedious
process" of groceries shopping that this guy complains about.

FC
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