It's dead easy and it saves money ! Start "scanbuying" in four steps :
1. Walk into the store, find your favourite item !
2. Take a photo of its bar code with your mobile phone's camera !
3. Check comparable bar-code prices from an online database !
4. After price check buy the item cheaper wherever you want !
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Too good to be true ? The Scnabuy Technology already exists in Japan. Now it is about to hit the U.S., after all today's "Swiss army knife" phones can do everything. But watch out, storekeepers may get upset about your Bargain hunting ! Olivier Attia, founder of "Scanby", a small U.S. company offering consumer bar-code technology, tells the "Fortune Magazine" he'll know he's arrived, when the sign outside the store reads "no pets, no food, no bar-code scanning" !
