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"This your first time ? The price of the flash card is $5. Just enter the list of companies or countries you are boycotting and the system will figure out which brand of flash card is suitable for you. If you have any allergies that works in the same way.
Ok, now pick up a pricing gun and insert your
flash card. That's right, and on with the shopping ...
Notice how when you scanned that coffee it beeped and the light flashed red. That's because its not fair trade coffee. Yeah, that brand is fine for you.
That game you selected has been disallowed as one of your choices was "Not a product of the devil", have you considered buying a playstation ?
Halfbakery T-shirt. I think not with your allergies.
What you have scanned will be $68.35. Have a nice day!"
Disloyalty_20Cards
similar [xenzag, Jul 09 2009]
Mr. Boycott
http://en.wikipedia...ki/Geoffrey_Boycott
[normzone, Jul 09 2009]
Stop And Shop "Scan It"
http://www.physorg..../news139225121.html
[goldbb, Jul 09 2009]
Baked, mostly
http://www.goodguide.com
Find out which products are good/bad [sophocles, Jul 10 2009]
MIT's presentation at TED
http://blogs.msdn.c...e-creep-factor.aspx
Projects meta information onto products. [marklar, Jul 12 2009]
[link]
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I read the title as boycott mail, which is apt as we're in the
middle of a postal strike in London. |
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Who manufactures the pricing gun? |
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I wanted it to be a shopping mall dedicated to all things related to Geoffrey Boycott. |
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[Ian Tindale]: Really? I honestly hadn't noticed. Just so long as the paper still gets through. |
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[Denholm], topical. I'm listening to Geoffrey this very second... |
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"More brains in a pork pie." |
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// Who manufactures the pricing gun ? // |
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What if you're boycotting The Great Satan ? |
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Super Stop And Shop recently setup some stores to have a new self-service system called "Scan It!" [sic, exclamation point included] |
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The consumer picks up a battery powered price gun as he enters the store, scans each item as he puts it into his cart. At checkout, the customer hands his scanner to the cashier, and pays whatever total is shown on the scanner. |
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Naturally, this is *vastly* faster than taking everything out of the cart, getting it scanned and bagged by the cashier, then re-loaded back into your cart by yourself. |
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Since you're already scanning things as you put them into your cart, a "boycotting" feature would be an easy add-on. |
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I understand this as a handheld tool, but not as a special mall. Seems silly to build a place just to avoid it. |
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[goldbb] Exactly the situation I was thinking of. I wonder how honesty is working out for those stores. |
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[jutta] The 'mall' in the title was intended to be virtual e.g. being able to use the device across many stores, or in a superstore. Stores would not have to be specifically built for this to work. It should be possible to retro-fit any store by utilising the "carry it into the store and plug it in" paradigm. |
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Oh! Duh. Sorry, sometimes I'm a little slow. |
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If you don't like Microsoft, then buy the vastly more expensive,
difficult-and- expensive-to-repair, nigh-impossible-to-program,
and criminally proprietary Apple version. |
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//If you don't like Microsoft, then buy the... Apple version// |
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Yes - that sounds sensible. |
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Give over with the Apple vs Microsoft. |
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Apple is great for people who dont customise their machines and use a few specific applications such as word processing or image editing. Microsoft is great if you need wide compatibility and customisation, or if you want to play a wide veriety of games. Linux if you need the ultimate customisation for a single purpose. |
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Lovely idea for customer emancipation - successful boycotting is dependent on sufficient information, though: Shareholders, Joint-Ventures etc. The scanner might have to have online access to those informations, so it can verify your boycott-claim 'No Nestlé products' in case of the currently scanned product against the current corporate landscape. |
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I've decided to boy cot counterfeit goods. Can it spot the
difference? |
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[Mr Tindale], yes, they will be in a male crib. |
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[bigsleep] Interestingly, shops report negative dishonesty in these examples. Seems customers are worried that they might not have scanned something so they scan it again, just in case. |
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Clearly they do get some random malefactors, but the numbers are very low. May be due to the 'random stop & verify' policy that they run. |
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[loon] - essentially the amount of information would be infinite, as the scanner would simply read a unique ID off the product. |
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Data entity diagram is quite straightforward, but could be extremely powerful with ability to have information specific to that particular instance, that delivery, that production batch, that product range, that factory, that country, that manufacturer, etc. |
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It could even do things like pick up packaging information - e.g. in a shampoo the actual chemicals involved may be very green, but what about the plastics used in the tube, or the manufacturing processes involved? Or the recycling status of the boxes that it gets shipped in? Or the business ethics of the advertising company they used? |
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Manufacturers would be encouraged to contribute all the relevant information, but an aftermarket internet-based link-up would allow any nutcase (sorry ... committed activist) to make whatever claims they like, subject to their being prepared to defend themselves against legal action. |
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Discussion forums* could sprout up around key issues, so you can easily get a feel for how serious the issue might be. |
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Consumers could then create a profile for themselves which sets out what they care about and how much. (For instance I could highlight animal cruelty, worker conditions and industrial pollution as 'red' issues, but shareholdings by dodgy corporations as only 'light yellow') |
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A query against any item (which could be via scanner or other methods) will result in a single summary score (ideally a 'traffic light' colour coded to tell me Red, Orange, or Green). |
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If I want further info, I can just drill down and find out more. |
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You could even hijack this system for completely different uses - e.g. a 'dating compatibility' indicator which overlaps your 'consumer profile' against that of the object of your interest to identify any areas likely to lead to future domestic strife. |
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[goldbb] - the extended version not only allows you to check the price, and the boycott elements, but also (of course, and quite baked) alternative prices everywhere else ... so may not be something that the store itself would be too keen on! |
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*(I know it should be 'fora', but I feel like a pompous git if I insist on saying that) |
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I'm still trying to understand how this is so different to my own prior idea for Disloyalty cards? So I'm inclined to think that it is redundant, and must therefore be suitably punished with this bone. |
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Entirely different, Xenzag! Your idea was for a reward system that
rewards people for not shopping at specific places, and gave no
mention as to how the people issuing the cards would know
where you're shopping. This idea makes no mention of rewards,
and it uses a machine to scan items and verify their bona fides
and can be used at any store. It's not the same thing at all. |
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Still seems essentially the same to me - i.e. a card based system that is the opposite of rewarding customers who shop at mr nasty's outlet. |
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I wonder if anyone has ever effectively boy cotted
the halfbakery? Or it's T-shirts for that matter... |
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(Idea garners one allergy free bun.) |
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I can think of a few who have boycotted the halfbakery. Some still do. Doesn't seem to have caused any massive global shift in halfbaking. Though we're still a little light in the ladies clothing department. |
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Anyone liking this should checkout the "goodguide.com" (link added too), which is quite similar, but better. |
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They basically baked my long-held idea, and are doing a pretty good job of it. Seriously. |
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[wags], that seems pretty cryptic to me. |
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Oh and I'm not sure boycotting is the same
as leaving, or simply taking a much needed break. |
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When I think of boycotting I think of picketing and
such. Not simply an absence, |
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Not only is this being baked, they're slicing it and
adding sultanas. [link] |
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Also, there's an iPhone app that overlays information
on the screen, but I couldn't find a link to it. |
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Great idea! We can even build an hypocracy database from it. Since we know that you knew it was bad for x and still bought it. Due the size of the database it will have to run on google's servers... |
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