How cheap would these have to be in order to make them cost effective to put into every day product packaging?
And would too many of these near each other cause too much interference?
This would be a great way to cut the store out of the solution and just go straight from product -> customer?
Soon you won't even need to go to a store, the things you want will be dropped off to your home or business...
That said the environmental impact of shipped boxes may not be better overall. But damn is it convenient.
Retail stores with sensors could deliver you both great showrooming experience and mobile commerce, something people already do anyway trying in Best Buy and buying from Amazon :P
It's bagged up, so less cruft than Amazon which has to worry about freight delivery.
Neither does groceries, so I'm stuck with Safeway deliveries for that (which hasn't been a completely stellar experience).
I would be singing the praises of InstaCart, but they happened to no want to deliver to my area of the SF bay yet :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BufferBox
"temporary parcel pickup station for packages ordered online"
I want to do something like this in my country.