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Fair criticisms, but I maintain we're going to end up tracking our food eventually. It's just going to get cheaper, and there are real upsides IMO. Wrote this

• gehwartzen 9y ago
  The thing is that all you need is a sticker on each piece of food with a unique QR code or an rfid tag containing all the expiration, source, and lot numbers. The consumer can just scan everything and get any necessary info about expiration dates and recalls if they want. Nothing very complex there and certainly doesn't require any fancy kitchen gadgets just a industry agreed on labeling standard.
• adrianN 9y ago
  About half the food I buy is not in a package. I wouldn't want every carrot and every loaf of bread to come with an RFID sticker.
• frobozz 9y ago
  Possibly, and i certainly agree that there's benefit in a recipe suggestion tool that is linked to your inventory. It's also a good idea to have something tell you what's coming up to use-by, to reduce waste. However, that tracking belongs at the kitchen door using a common industry standard format, and the ability to manually enter inventory items. If you need a different appliance to prepare food from each vendor, then you won't be able to make Alphabet spaghetti with Amazon beef and Apple tomatoes; you can't pop to the local shop to get some milk; you can't go into your garden to pick some carrots; you can't go to a specialist vendor to get a particular spice mix or exotic vegetable; you can't buy your favourite varieties from a local grower. I can't picture giving up on those advantages just so that Mr. Bezos can tell me what to eat.