Supermarkets Offering Personal Scanners
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SCAGGSVILLE, Md. -- Stephanie Cerneck doesn't go through the checkout line at her supermarket anymore. Or even the self-checkout line. She uses a personal scanner offered by the Bloom grocery store near her home, scanning each item as she takes it off the shelf and bagging as she shops. When she's...
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Much More Than Just Keeping an Eye on Your Household
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Encouraged by consumer's willingness to use self-checkout scanners, stores are testing new innovations to add service and cut costs. -The Washington Post
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There should be more checks on the use of information collected by supermarket loyalty cards, suggests David Blunkett.
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Some coupon users are clicking instead of clipping these days to get their grocery discounts.
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Blog: Now you don't have to go to a store or sit in front of your computer to get your shopping done. With a few clicks, you can buy stuff right from your phone.
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NHS patients may get new smart cards controlling access to personal health data.
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Plus: Heathrow airport using 'see through clothes' scanner on passengers.
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The service allows users to search for specific items to find the best deal and, unlike some similar British sites, it&#39;s free to users and retailers.
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If you buy things on the Web--or even just browse--you could be at risk from prying eyes and sloppy security. Some people want to change that.
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âIsnât it sweet to shop at a store where members of the sales staff not only know their stock inside and out, but donât hesitate to recommend a less expensive product when itâs appropriate?â Thatâs what Bob Levitus (Houston Chronicle) wonders in an article about the Apple Store and three new programs it recently introduced. âThe one I find most compelling is the new One to One personal training service. For a mere $99 a year you get unlimited access to expert trainers at the Apple Store.â Levitus considers that âquite an amazing deal.â
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Coffee shops licensed to sell marijuana in the southern Dutch city of Maastricht will begin fingerprinting customers and scanning their IDs this summer to help prove they're following rules governing such sales.
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'Green' postal mail scanning service plans to open retail stores around the country.
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Tesco is rolling out radio barcode technology across its 98 Tesco Extra stores to track high-value items between its internal distribution centres and its outlets.
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Cell giant introduces a GPS application that lets subscribers search for products in nearby stores from their phones.
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By Jim Wasserman, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Mar. 2--Pity the full-fledged computer store in a retail era when consumers can pluck their electronics off the shelf, along with shampoo and shoes, at big discount stores like Costco and Wal-Mart.
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Shaken by scandals involving the black-market sale of body parts, University of California officials are considering inserting supermarket-style barcodes or radio frequency devices in cadavers to keep track of them.