I walked into our neighborhood store and asked an employee where I could find what I was looking for and she punched some codes into her Motorola hand held (in photo) and told me the aisle and bin number. She then spoke into it – it’s also a walkie-talkie, and told me it is also a scanner and it can send print requests for bar codes to be printed. Nice.
As I walked to my aisle, I passed by a remote controlled Hunter Ceiling Fan, a Filtrete wifi thermostat, a Ridgid 7000 watt generator, a Ryobi Duet Power Paint Tool system, a Rain Bird irrigation system (to program lawn sprinklers), a Dyson Vacuum with “root cyclone technology”, a Char-Broil grill with infra-red heat.
Wonder how many SKUs in that store have some embedded technology in them?
By the way Home Depot is one of the early retailers to pioneer mobile payments. Shows you how tech savvy its contractor and consumer base is.
And we only think of Apple and Best Buy and Curry's when we think tech retail!
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