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Depending on where you live, it might already (mostly) exist, minus the NFC part.

Grocery co-op in my area has a big back room of bulk goods, sells durable containers too, run by hippies and has been around for decades.

The real hurdles with selling bulk & having customers reuse containers is handling tare smoothly and getting customers to remember to bring their containers.



There was a zero-waste grocer in Austin, but they recently went out of business. http://austin.culturemap.com/news/restaurants-bars/04-25-18-...




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