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This is letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.

Sure an apple or a squash is hard to track, but a large (probably a majority) of a modern grocery stores selection is prepackaged goods.

It it is a lot easier to run a veggienet or whatever on a small subset of the goods purchased.




Some would argue that trying to eliminate self or manual checkouts from groceries stores is letting the perfect be the enemy of good.




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