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I don't want rfid tags in my apples, and putting them on the outside of each one seems costly.

And things like onions have a loose outer skin, which falls off. And grocery store clerks peel the outside (wilting) leaves off of things like local lettuce daily.

Seems like rfid on groceries would be hard for fresh produce, and we don't need everything wrapped in plastic.

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You won't have it anyway. An rfid tag tag placed on any conductor (apples are conductors because of their water content) 'detunes' the tag and makes it impossible to read

This is letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.

Sure an apple or a squash is hard to track, but a large (probably a majority) of a modern grocery stores selection is prepackaged goods.

It it is a lot easier to run a veggienet or whatever on a small subset of the goods purchased.

Some would argue that trying to eliminate self or manual checkouts from groceries stores is letting the perfect be the enemy of good.

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