Primer - Zip@lemmy.ziptoTechnology@lemmy.world•Why several big-box stores have ditched their self-checkouts | CBC NewsEnglish
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1 year agoWe need more places where you can scan and checkout with your phone. For example: https://www.bigy.com/myExpressCheckout
This single-handedly changed where I buy groceries - I can essentially just walk out the front door as soon as I have everything I need. Don’t need to worry about:
- Waiting in the massive checkout lines (even the self-checkout lines are long…)
- Taking everything (or mostly everything) out of the shopping cart for the cashier to scan.
Just from reading the article, is the scope just critical software infrastructure? What does that encompass exactly? Banking and military software seems easy to assume - what about embedded medical device software? Or just embedded software in general?