Anyone want to venture a guess???

[statman]

Will a typical retail bar-code scanner be able to properly scan a picture of a bar-code from the screen of a typical customer's cell phone (ie - take a picture of a product's bar-code, display it on your phone, and swipe the phone to buy the item).

I'm headed to Wal-Mart, Target and Harmons to see if they can. I'm testing four different phones at the three different stores. Store managers all know I'm going to be in their stores messing around with this experiment.

Anyone want to guess? Anyone have a reason why they know it won't work?

I really have no idea if it will work or not...

I'm also thinking about making some phone calls to Europe with my co-workers' phones - just because I can...

[Hsaru]

Scanning coupon barcodes from Iphones work, I've seen it before.

[Chachi]

It works from the droid cuz I've used it. I've had a coupon sent to my email and been able to have then scan it. My grocery cards are on an app as well that can be scanned by the cashier when checking out.

[Uncle Ted]

It works on the iPhone as well... see the following thread:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=633625

There is even an app for that:

http://www.mycardstar.com/

[ERCougar]

I use this all the time. You can compare prices on amazon to anything you find in a store. In bigger cities, you can compare to other retailers, but pretty much everything in Cedar compares to our Walmart.