Monday, April 5, 2010

Free Idea # 311 - GPS system for shopping cart

Add a small onboard computer and GPS system to shopping cart handles. The system would allow shoppers to select key items they wish to purchase and would then offer journey options, e.g. 'quick shop' - which would provide the fastest/shortest route around the store to purchase the required items, and 'calorie burn' - which would provide a deliberately circuitous route around the store. The LCD display would show key data: distance traveled in store, time taken, average speed, estimated calories burned, etc.

2 comments:

memo said...

I like but not commercially viable

Anonymous said...

Similar product use by Stop and Shop in US.
http://money.cnn.com/2005/04/28/news/fortune500/supermarket_showdown/