The cashiers' demands were simple: management must remove the tracking software they had installed in the checkout terminals, or the cashiers would refuse to return to work.
For Amazon, these Kindles are like mini checkout terminals for its massive digital storefront.
Under the watchful gaze of that gadgetry -- which Genuardi's has named SCOT, for self-checkout terminal -- customers are left to their own devices to scan, bag and pay for their groceries (with cash or debit cards).
You can checkout in the terminal with this command: svn checkout file:///Users/[your username]/svnroot For remote access, enable "ssh access" (in System Preferences/Sharing) and checkout with: svn checkout svn+ssh://my.domain.com/Users/[your username]/svnroot defer.add img); Set up a Subversion client.
Instead of swiping a credit card, consumers will be able to simply tap or wave their phone at the payment terminal at checkout in order to complete a transaction, and in some cases, even receive coupons or offers from the merchant.
Some lawyers reckon that this would prompt every high-street store in America to convert itself into an Internet retailer by turning its checkouts into Internet terminals over which customers could "order" and pay for the goods they have just taken off the shelf.
At three Kroger stores in College Station, Tex., that are testing the technology, participants pay by touching a payment terminal at the checkout registers.
This month, AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon announced a joint venture called Isis that would use a technology called near-field communication to allow consumers to pay at checkout by waving their phone near a terminal.
Inside Terminal 5, people queuing at a checkout take a while to fiddle with their bags as they rummage through their travel documents.
It was possible, he learned, to breach the point-of-sale terminals at stores, the machines on checkout counters through which you swipe your card at the supermarket, the gas station, the department store — just about anywhere you buy something.
When you approach the checkout counter, the merchant sees a picture of you on the terminal and your transaction is completed.
