grocery store gps
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By quirky1 In Business | August 18, '08
Summary of Idea #12
a store that knows what you want and where to find it
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The best thing about this idea is that the grocery stores have already done ‘most’ of this work with their bar code system. What they should do is allow me to go online BEFORE I go to the store and check off my grocery needs from their published inventory. This could be simplified even more by using categories. THEN it would sort my list by aisle (left or right) and organize the items front to back as I weave through the aisles. NO wasted time, NO missed items, AND I would know right where everything is.
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You have started a revolution
You started a revolution. Check out this blog:
http://pmjg.blogspot.com/2008/09/open-letter-to-my-grocery-store.html
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I figured that someone would have thought of it before me.
I like the above idea of going online to have the store sort your purchases beforehand better than the GPS idea, though. Things would still get screwed up, but there’s a lot less that could go wrong if I’ve just got a printout in my hand that follows the layout of the store.
As to implementation, I know that the stocking employees COULD update the store records when they fill the shelves, but I see them resisting the necessary training that it would take.
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Great Idea....
You could al.so install a small GPS system on each shopping cart. The system would sort your list according to the location in the store and guide you to each item in closest to furtherst order.
A barcode scanner could also be included that totals up the bill as you place each item in the cart
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It has been looked into before
Check out this article from 2005.
http://www.primidi.com/2005/02/18.html
I have heard of this idea in other places before as well. I think the decision was that too many grocery carts are stolen or just generally abused. You would have to assume a high rate of lost or damaged systems, and grocery stores simply cannot afford to continue replacing them.
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