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chrischen on Aug 7, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Korea’s Tesco reinvents grocery shopping with QR-c...

> 2. This is a terrible, terrible idea. If you've got a smartphone, you'd just shop online. Maybe while you're riding the train.

Well not really. The billboards serve as advertisements, that you just happent to also be able to shop from.

softbuilder on Aug 8, 2011 [–]

I can't remember the last billboard I saw that required me to bend down to look at it.

electromagnetic on Aug 8, 2011 | [–]

You bend down to recognize a product near waist height? My friend, you need glasses.

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