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Kudos to [BayRatt]
Grocery shopping is a boring business, for the most part.
No longer. The Magic Roundabout shopping concept is here: Handcarved unicorns, horses, spaceships, water buffalo and gryphons and such, set to bob up and down as the roundabout zips past the shelves.
If you want
12 cans of baked beans then you may have to go past the baked beans 12 times.
Each supermarket contains roughly 20 themed rides; one for each aisle of a traditional supermarket. Frozen goods last, OK?
Traditional roundabout may be replaced with product jingles, if supplier pays enough.
Kids ride for free, while parents get their shopping done. Make a day of it.
Like this?
http://www.swindonw.../life/lifemagi0.htm
[silverstormer, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
It's a Knockout/Jeux Sans Frontiers
http://www.amazon.c...026-8127473-9197240
Seems appropriate but, if you've never seen it, there's no way I can do it justice with an explanation. You just had to be there. [DrBob, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
Time for Bed
http://www.rsc.co.uk/zebidee/history.htm
said Zebedee [PeterSilly, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
Jimmy Shand
http://www.jimmyshand.com/
Famous organist of Scottish country dance music (like Strip-the-Willow). [Jinbish, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
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MFD, magic. Just kidding. I love it
but what if you want 12 cans of
half baked beans? + |
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I'd go shopping more often...for
things...I needed. |
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Cute, but its gryphon. Do the ice cream last. |
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"It's good", they said. And it was. |
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Of course you know that some enterprising young scamp will attempt to grab as many of his desired item in one turn. |
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One hand reaching out, the other holding the basket securely, thighs firmly squeezing his gryphon steed. A steely expression forms on our young hero's face - as if jousting with Sir Brian De Bois Guilbert himself. [Jb] prepares to reach out for the beer - determined not to have to go round an infinite of times for more than one bottle. |
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"Now!" As [Jb] reaches, straining every sinew to attain the Holy Grail of off-licence... <Crash!> trying desperately too hard to get 163 bottles at once, our hero meets a terribly ignominious doom - falling through a wall of alco-pops. |
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Man, the twelfth of August is gonna go down, er, up, er, down in halfbakery hstory as a good'un. + |
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Grab the brass ring, get a ten percent discount. |
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(Just in case it wasn't obvious, a hint for those in the USA: roundabout = merry go round). + |
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I'd like to add a technology enabled addition. Once the supermarkets (speaking as someone who works for one) get RFID (Radio frequency ID - which enables contacless up to 3m reading of information) tags on all the shopping instead of barcodes, you won't need to scan everything at the checkout - just drive thr trolley through and evrything registers. Add an RFID payment card, which you wave passed the till and gets debited, and you don't need to stop at all. Hence my idea to finish off this mad shopping experience - the checkout rollercoaster/log flume.
Finish all of that shopping and push your grypphon shaped shopping trolley (I'm imagining that the trolley becomes a part of each ride so that you can move between each and retain your shopping) on to the final conveyor, which takes you up a track running across the line of tills, but 10ft off the floor. As soon as you come to a free till, the ride pushes your trolley off down a ramp where you whizz past the till (both checking out and paying at the same time) and whoosh out into the car park where you splash through (optional) water splash. Trolley glides out under remote control mode to be driven to where your car is parked and it's home again in time for tea. |
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Combined with a paintball range for grumpy paedophobes, this could be a real winner. |
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<vision of store staff stocking the shelves during shopping hours> Hehe! |
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//I was expecting the other kind of roundabout: a store
with one-way, circular aisles. --Steve DeGroof// |
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Good idea. My local stores are a madhouse to try to
navigate. |
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<Sitting on the grocery-go-round and reaching for the couscous.> + |
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ha! Never with only one mole. |
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goff - nothing wrong with that, its a little like the wizards in Terry Pratchett books. |
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You could have bumper cars for the deli. Customers compete as to who can get to the counter first. + |
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I can read fast and have fast hands... I like this! <G> I think I could grab at least three cans of beans per pass... |
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One added note: make the "best bang for the buck" products flash in green or something, as it will be much of a blurr for a non-multitasker... (+)
Nice touch, [goff] |
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I like grocery shopping anyway, but I'd shop more just to keep riding. The bulk food roundabout would be a RIOT! Try to keep from falling in the granola bin. Oh yes!! Love it UnaBubba! :) Thanks!! |
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I suppose those buying the Jumbo Family sized items would have to ride in the chariot rather than on the bobbing ponies, but if it's a nicely decorated chariot, that would be fun too... |
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Do the Charlton Heston / Ben Hur thing, and clear whole shelves with the nasty, spiky hubs on the chariot. |
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That makes me think of the potential downsides of the idea [UB]: There is no jostling of trolleys/carts. You can't zip in front of people or park your cart infront of 'the bread' so others are inconvenienced. You can't 'accicentally' clip someone's heels in a Ben Hur-esque styleé with the front of you cart. You certainly can't do powersliding/handbrake turns round the aisles.
On saying all that - having a shopping system based on carousels does (probably) make up for that. |
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Fair enough. Just one thing... what's an 'accicent'? |
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Er... it's an 'unintentional' eror. |
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I think that's a common reason for a re-take when Sean Connery tries to play anything but a scotsman. |
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ah the good old days. this needs to come to the top of the list again |
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I often try to imagine whether this would be possible, when I'm doing the shopping. |
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"Time for beans", said Zebedee. |
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<sub-idea, based on the
non-stopping principle of the
carousel shopping>
I was attempting to do some
shopping in the supermarket
the other day but it was very
busy and very slow moving.
This moving carousel idea came
back to me, but rather than a
mechanical merry-go-round I
thought of people throwing
each other about. |
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What if the glorious music of
'Jimmy Shand' struck up and
everyone started dancing in
one humungous, continuous
strip-the-willow style line?
We could all enjoy shopping
and the crowds would snake
around the aisles with ease. |
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BOINGGGGGGG! (said Zebedee as he reached for the coffee) |
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For those who aren't familiar with "The Magic Roundabout", it's a 1970s kids' show, from Britain. The characters all had enormously swollen heads, sorta like well-groomed Rugrats. |
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"Where is the sugar?" Dougal demanded |
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Very nice, Una. Thanks. Croissant. |
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This one seems to have lost all of its votes. |
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//it's a 1970s kids' show, from Britain// |
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I thought it was from France, originally? |
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This would have been very ironic if someone else had posted this idea other than Una. |
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Good heavens! Someone who understands irony! |
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good grief, he's back! can we do away with all this UnaBubba Hoopla, please? |
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//can we do away with all this UnaBubba Hoopla//
Hoopla is a side-show, aisle 9. <boiiinngg> |
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Calm down, [po]. [Giblet] posted on May 9. Your Freudian slip is showing. |
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Oooh, first time I've seen this one. |
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But... How can me an' the scurvy dogs foist yer mainsail an' tip yer barnacles if ye be wizzin' by at such a t'riffic rate? |
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Sorry, medicated jock itch creams are in carousel 14. |
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