A few years ago the grocery I worked for got rid of their inventory scan guns that ran on Windows CE and TinyTERM and, while outdated, were rugged as shit and it was impossible to lose your progress if you took the scanner into a WiFi dead zone somewhere in the bowels of the store. Then at some point they switched these shitty Androd-based ones that run on a web app. You always needed to be extra cautious to make sure it’s actually communicating with the WiFi and the server, or else whatever you’re scanning would not get counted/ordered.
We used to maintain those at my last job, they are still used in big grocery chains for inventory purposes
God I wish I used this for inventory/ordering purposes instead of a shitty samsung tablet with a dodgy half baked web app
Plus some models have ring scanners :
which makes your job cooler than it is
A few years ago the grocery I worked for got rid of their inventory scan guns that ran on Windows CE and TinyTERM and, while outdated, were rugged as shit and it was impossible to lose your progress if you took the scanner into a WiFi dead zone somewhere in the bowels of the store. Then at some point they switched these shitty Androd-based ones that run on a web app. You always needed to be extra cautious to make sure it’s actually communicating with the WiFi and the server, or else whatever you’re scanning would not get counted/ordered.