Comments on: Mechanical Grocery Store Walks Around the Customer http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/15/mechanical-grocery-store-walks-around-the-customer/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:29:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Andrew http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/15/mechanical-grocery-store-walks-around-the-customer/#comment-1043738 Andrew Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:27:09 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/15/mechanical-grocery-store-walks-around-the-customer/#comment-1043738 Maybe if different types of products were put on separate belts (produce, canned goods, baking goods, etc.)it would be more practical. Maybe if different types of products were put on separate belts (produce, canned goods, baking goods, etc.)it would be more practical.

]]> By: Remek http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/15/mechanical-grocery-store-walks-around-the-customer/#comment-1027308 Remek Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:49:45 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/15/mechanical-grocery-store-walks-around-the-customer/#comment-1027308 Not a bad idea, but -- - how fast is the belt, and shouldn't the customer control how fast it goes by, and whether it needs to stop temporarily to grab more than one item? - this is obviously before the concept of 'sell-by' dates were introduced (a not-so-popular product could have items staying in inventory on the belt for years before they're purchased) - this design tends to eliminate everyday fresh produce shopping - unless the store handled only a limited range of product vendors, even at the year it was conceived the shopper would have several or more selections available to choose from for each product... which means unless it was a small or limited store, the product conveyer belt would have to be hundreds of metres long to equal a 'normal' grocery shopping experience with all the choices available Not a bad idea, but –

- how fast is the belt, and shouldn’t the customer control how fast it goes by, and whether it needs to stop temporarily to grab more than one item?

- this is obviously before the concept of ’sell-by’ dates were introduced (a not-so-popular product could have items staying in inventory on the belt for years before they’re purchased)

- this design tends to eliminate everyday fresh produce shopping

- unless the store handled only a limited range of product vendors, even at the year it was conceived the shopper would have several or more selections available to choose from for each product…

which means unless it was a small or limited store, the product conveyer belt would have to be hundreds of metres long to equal a ‘normal’ grocery shopping experience with all the choices available

]]> By: Rick Auricchio http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/15/mechanical-grocery-store-walks-around-the-customer/#comment-1026170 Rick Auricchio Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:30:04 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/15/mechanical-grocery-store-walks-around-the-customer/#comment-1026170 After she comes home from work in the back room stocking the conveyor belt, she gets to sit up front and shop... As for the shoplifter, have you ever seen Roberto Begnini's "The Monster?" (aka Il Mostro). In one scene, he wants to shoplift, so he slips items into other people's pockets, into strollers, and their carts after they check out. He then stuffs his pockets. The alarms keep going off as each patron leaves, so the store turns them off. He walks out undetected. After she comes home from work in the back room stocking the conveyor belt, she gets to sit up front and shop…

As for the shoplifter, have you ever seen Roberto Begnini’s “The Monster?” (aka Il Mostro). In one scene, he wants to shoplift, so he slips items into other people’s pockets, into strollers, and their carts after they check out. He then stuffs his pockets. The alarms keep going off as each patron leaves, so the store turns them off. He walks out undetected.

]]> By: Neil Russell http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/15/mechanical-grocery-store-walks-around-the-customer/#comment-1025449 Neil Russell Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:51:15 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/15/mechanical-grocery-store-walks-around-the-customer/#comment-1025449 I just heard on the news the other day that a new system will read the products you have in your shopping cart and charge you as you walk out the store, seems like there was a commercial showing a guy walking through a store stuffing his pockets looking like a shoplifter and when he walks out a security guard walks up and hands him is receipt. I'm glad that concept is closer to fruition than the one shown above! :) Didn't this idea make the rounds in the magazines back then, or was it the same article I saw sometime back on the site? I just heard on the news the other day that a new system will read the products you have in your shopping cart and charge you as you walk out the store, seems like there was a commercial showing a guy walking through a store stuffing his pockets looking like a shoplifter and when he walks out a security guard walks up and hands him is receipt.

I’m glad that concept is closer to fruition than the one shown above! :)

Didn’t this idea make the rounds in the magazines back then, or was it the same article I saw sometime back on the site?

]]> By: Blurgle http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/15/mechanical-grocery-store-walks-around-the-customer/#comment-1025258 Blurgle Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:42:57 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/15/mechanical-grocery-store-walks-around-the-customer/#comment-1025258 So you spend two hours waiting for this slow moving belt to go by you, then spend another half-hour waiting for your purchases to be wrapped? I can't see why this idea didn't take off like gangbusters. So you spend two hours waiting for this slow moving belt to go by you, then spend another half-hour waiting for your purchases to be wrapped?

I can’t see why this idea didn’t take off like gangbusters.

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