Technology

“Meijer has come up with a new way to keep the kids occupied while mom and dad shop for groceries: Play videos for them. Meijer… Read More »Meijer to rent carts with videos

“‘It’s a self-everything world,’ said Mike Webster, vice president and general manager of NCR Self Service, which makes self-checkout equipment. ‘Customers increasingly are demanding self-service… Read More »Is it self-service or disservice?

“The problem came when I reached the checkout aisles and found no lines open and no friendly clerk waiting. A pale young woman who looked… Read More »Live Checkout Clerks Are Better

“Supermarket chains offering online shopping and delivery services are to introduce clearer pricing, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has announced. The UK’s leading online… Read More »Online supermarkets to provide clearer pricing

“What do you need to get at the store? Sometimes it’s hard to create a shopping list from thin air — so here’s a handy… Read More »Chef Mom.com’s Interactive grocery store shopping checklist

“This informational site, created by the American Bar Association, will help you order safely when shopping online:” Safeshopping.org

“In an effort to to ‘improve the customer’s shopping experience, facilitate the up-sell, increase sales volume, and boost store loyalty’, Springboard Retail Networks manufactures the… Read More »“I always feel like, my cart is watching me”

“In 2004, Nancy Giehl spent $12,000 on groceries for her family of five. ‘Now, I probably spend about $9,000 a year,’ said Giehl, of Boulder,… Read More »Cyber clipping for the pantry

See first comment: “They should really make them items in a grocery list and you tap them to light them up. Then they use bluetooth… Read More »LCD magnets write their own poetry

“SmartShopper is an automated grocery shopping list device that will use voice recognition technology to store, and intelligently aggregate lists for shopping and errands, then… Read More »SmartShopper – the voice-activated shopping list device

“As you find recipes on BettyCrocker.com, add them to your Grocery List. We’ll create a complete list, including amounts, separated by grocery store sections. To… Read More »Grocery List at BettyCrocker.com

“Shoppers will be able to order deli meats on a touch screen in the canned pea aisle, get recipes and ingredient lists from a kiosk… Read More »A new bag of tricks for grocers

“IBM hopes consumers will compile a shopping list online, only to have it waiting for them on a cart-mounted display. The bonus here is that… Read More »Gadgets enhance grocery shopping

“IntelliScanner — which developed the Wine Collector 150 we peeped a while ago — now has a version of the Bluetooth barcode scanner for folks… Read More »IntelliScaner Kitchen Companion 100 keeps track of groceries

“The GLG (Grocery List Generator) is a helpful little tool to store your recipe-ingredients and other groceries you need regularly. It creates a well-organized grocery… Read More »Firefox extension: Grocery List Generator