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Costco. is that related to Osco Drug? That's the only place that comes to mind and it went out of business here in the early '90s. Last time i rememer seeing a handheld unit it was in a Kmart. We all know what happened to them!

Don't know what made Samsung Pay different since you're talking about scanning a barcode on an LCD display. Only time i had issues there was due to low resolution from some generic $40 Android phone.
 
nickdalzell1 said:
Costco. is that related to Osco Drug? That's the only place that comes to mind and it went out of business here in the early '90s. Last time i rememer seeing a handheld unit it was in a Kmart. We all know what happened to them!

Don't know what made Samsung Pay different since you're talking about scanning a barcode on an LCD display. Only time i had issues there was due to low resolution from some generic $40 Android phone.
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Are you serious about not knowing what Costco is? What part if the world are you located in?

https://www.costco.com/
 
Owensboro KY. Closest thing that came to mind since they sound similar in pronunciation
 
nickdalzell1 said:
Costco. is that related to Osco Drug? That's the only place that comes to mind and it went out of business here in the early '90s. Last time i rememer seeing a handheld unit it was in a Kmart. We all know what happened to them!

Don't know what made Samsung Pay different since you're talking about scanning a barcode on an LCD display. Only time i had issues there was due to low resolution from some generic $40 Android phone.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costco
 
So a Sam's Club clone. gotcha.

I hadn't heard of Whole Foods either until a year or two back. I deal with some folks who never heard of a Kroger. Relax folks!
 
Similar premise though, right? Warehouse shopping with membership. Once we had a Megamarket and it operated that way and it was HUGE...God was it huge. The building was bloody massive and it was a huge flop-a-rooni. The building still exists but has since been divided into Target, Kohls, Best Buy, H&R Block, Petsmart, Shoe Carnival, etc.

We used to have a Woolco. store too that was massive but it's long gone. I don't remember much other than vague memories of it being one large empty shell with an oversized parking lot.
 
nickdalzell1 said:
Similar premise though, right? Warehouse shopping with membership. Once we had a Megamarket and it operated that way and it was HUGE...God was it huge. The building was bloody massive and it was a huge flop-a-rooni. The building still exists but has since been divided into Target, Kohls, Best Buy, H&R Block, Petsmart, Shoe Carnival, etc.

We used to have a Woolco. store too that was massive but it's long gone. I don't remember much other than vague memories of it being one large empty shell with an oversized parking lot.
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The underlying point is that there are still some pretty big and mainstream places where something like handheld scanner is fairly standard. (Speaking of Target, they have and use those as well, just as Walmart.)
 
Seems the only scanning i see at Walmart or anywhere lately is the area you pass groceries over. there's the pinpad where you tap to pay or swipe or insert a chip card. Any 'handheld' scanning is done by some kind of PDA these days. At Dollar General, they use some sort of Windows Phone running slab with a scanner at the top. Says 'Symbol' on it.

I haven't seen anything like what Kmart or grocery stores in the 80s did in years. The old NCR on a coil wire thing. Gone the way of the microphone that used to be known for 'Clean up on aisle one!'
 
nickdalzell1 said:
Don't know what made Samsung Pay different since you're talking about scanning a barcode on an LCD display. Only time i had issues there was due to low resolution from some generic $40 Android phone.
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No, Apple Pay (the wallet app) just displays an image of the barcode on the LCD (or OLED) display. Samsung Pay has a technology called mobeam ( https://www.androidheadlines.com/2016/05/samsung-pay-incorporates-mobeam-tech-scan-barcodes.html ) that flashes an IR LED on the front of the phone that the red laser scanners think is their own light being reflected off a barcode. Works flawlessly.
 
Oh. I've never seen that. I always thought that red thing was red eye reduction or part of the Iris scanner. It blinked once when i used an S8 for a few months. I was only familiar with LoopPay which is how the do MST. Learn something new each day
 
Not two years ago NFC didn't exist here at all. Samsung Pay via MST was about all you could use for tap to pay. Technophobia was rampant and if it was unfamiliar they never used it.

We finally acknowledged the future more recently. NFC is spawning everywhere except for those who still have faith in CurrenC like Walmart.

Still though I deal with the chip card folks. It can hold up a line as long as 5 minutes before it finally goes through. NFC is still not as common with the customers as with the stores. they only now caught onto chips, so when i tap my watch the response is either 'Whoa how you do that?' or "I'm calling the manager and reporting you for hacking our system!"

I only dealt with that last one twice. Once at a Dollar Tree trying the MST via Samsung and attempting to use it with a Dollar General terminal (which has the NFC symbol displayed but it is disabled) and it ended up crashing their payment system.

I still feel like Michael Knight for how he talked to his Watch and people gave him dirty looks over it! But the 80s were a long time ago!
 
Thanks, all my android is sold off and I appreciate the privacy of only giving access to apps when they're open and not completely.
 
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