Making Supermarket Self-Checkouts Actually Usable

Dr Stuart Woolley
The Shortform
Published in
1 min readApr 18, 2024

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Unexpected LLM in the bagging area?

“Image generated using OpenAI’s DALL·E.””

Just get it to recognise things that don’t have barcodes — cups of coffee, croissants, and the biggest win of all — loose fruit and vegetables.

Tomatoes, pumpkins, and cucumbers are fruits, but I always look under vegetables, so can never find them — I always end up typing in the words instead of navigating the menu…

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Dr Stuart Woolley
The Shortform

Worries about the future. Way too involved with software. Likes coffee, maths, and . Would prefer to be in academia. SpaceX, Twitter, and Overwatch fan.