To Market

Standing at the supermarket counter last weekend, I could not help but be amazed by how retail POS systems work and by how (I imagine) they make a grocery clerk’s job a whole lot easier. It’s easy to overlook how much technological progress has been made in and by this generation. I can still remember how punching in an item at a cash register meant literally keying in the item’s price. Now, a digital scanner relays the item information in the blink of an eye. Not a decade ago mobile phones were a rarity and with one hand, you could count the number of people who had them. Yet now we are a mobile connectivity-centric culture, unable to do the simplest of tasks without cell phone in hand.