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Technology is changing coupons — and shopping in general.
“Coupon Sherpa gives iPhone and iPod Touch users access to in-store mobile coupons and printable coupons (found on the Internet) for many of the most popular retailers. The coupons on Coupon Sherpa are for in-store use and not online use. Coupon Sherpa is the logical next step in the convergence …
“Japan is truly the innovator behind the vending machines, having invented them about 80 years ago. Now the new news is the fact vending machines are popping up all over the country selling beer, underwear, fried foods, potted plants, sexual lubricants, and anything else you could possibly imagine. In fact, …
“Gawd, making a shopping list is just so hard. It’s like, first you need to go find a pad of paper, right? Then you are all like, ‘yo, where my pen at?’ And once you finally get your pen and paper together, you have to like, write down what you …
Wow, this is cool — basically an automated grocery list maker. How it works:1. You plug a barcode scanner into your computer (preferably one in the kitchen)2. Simply scan the barcodes of any packages before you discard them.3. Grocist looks up the product’s information from the UPC database4. It keeps …
“After years of delay, the Food and Drug Administration tentatively concluded yesterday that milk and meat from some cloned farm animals are safe to eat. That finding could make the United States the first country to allow products from cloned livestock to be sold in grocery stores.”
The MIT Advertising Lab thinks you’ll like my upcoming book. I happen to agree. MIT’s blog “follows the future of media and ad technologies, bridging the gap between geekdom and advertising…”
“It took a grocer’s offer of a cookie to finally tear 4-year-old Trey Malcom away from the small TV screen in his shopping cart. Even then, his eyes shot back to the monitor the moment he accepted the sprinkled treat from the Publix grocery store clerk. ‘He’s in his own …
“Online grocery shoppers who receive dietary advice make healthier food choices, researchers have found. The Australian team compiled a list of commonly purchased foods that contained up to 92 per cent saturated fat and a low fat alternative for each. In a step toward a healthier heart, shoppers who received …