Enter the Metro Future Store, and the future begins now. On its list of surprises: a Personal Shopping Assistant (PSA) that displays your shopping list and shows you exactly where each product can be found; a produce scale that "sees" what product you are weighing; electronic digital price "tags" on store shelves that can be changed every hour, if so needed; video display screens all through the store showing today's specials, which can be changed by the minute; a wine aisle in which a computer matches the perfect wine selection for tonight's dinner%u2014and then guides you to the bottle's location via a beamed display on the floor. And, no need to empty the cart's contents onto a conveyor at checkout%u2014just hand the PSA to the cashier and pay. Meanwhile, in the back room and even on the shelves, RFID tags are tracking product, from distribution center to back room to store shelf to checkout. No, this is not your ordinary supermarket.
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