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Similar to an airport luggage carousel, the CarouSupermarket consist of a number of 'fingers' along which the conveyor of shelves travel, allowing selection of the goods you seek without you having to move.
To prevent the usual problems of the Alpha members of the herd crowding around the openings
at the emergence of the carousel there are individual booths, allocated through a ticketing system.
Once in the booth the system previews upcoming products, like Tetris, so you don't miss your favourite products.
Shelf stacking can be done 'on the fly' by the gnomes 'out the back', to ensure product availability.
Scanning of products is performed automatically, as you draw them in through the window, to place in your basket. This function, currently manual, will soon be automated. In the next model, selecting the number of iterations of an item can be performed on the keypad by the product review screen.
To exit the booth, you swipe your credit or debit card and pay for your purchases.
Shopping now takes a set time, for everyone, to assist with time management.
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All the fun of waiting at the luggage carousel every week! :P |
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Interesting idea, but if you know what you want and you know the store, it's easier to shop conventionally.
If you're not sure of what to get for dinner, this is probably good. If you want to comparison shop, this is not good. If you have the preview screens, why not just order off that, selecting from images that you scroll at your command? Then a stocker would select and bag your picks from the back of store and bring it to the front, call your number and then you pick up and take home after authorizing your debit. |
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I must admit, this is probably not something for the meandering shoppers whom I've deliberately run over, in my misspent past. It's more an idea for the pathologically controlling type, of which I am an example. |
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Gee, and I had visions of getting on a large carousel - of the amusement park variety - and riding a horse or a unicorn or something up & down while collecting my groceries that would be stacked on shelves curved around the perimeter of the carousel. Maybe this would be suitable for the candy "aisle" instead... something to keep the kids busy while waiting for mum/dad to finish shopping at Unabubba's grocery carousel. |
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Hmm. Makes re-stocking easier. Makes shopping easier. I like it. |
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What about the frozen foods? |
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I liked the reference to Tetris. Is that now becoming a cultural idiom, for whenever you see a preview of something? |
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I want to stack my groceries in the bag like Tetris. Have a side view of the bag and drop in groceries with a preview of the next item to be placed in the bag. Oh no, I have no good place for that dozen eggs!! |
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Would the booth be big enough for 20 baskets?. What If I forget my credit card... do I have to pay a clamping fee to get out. Is there a toilet in the Booth? What if a busload of german tourists leave their towels in all of the booths the night before? |
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They'll have nowhere to sleep when the Vogons pass through, will they? |
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