Entries from The Amateur Gourmet tagged with 'groceries'
The Grocery Scanner
My favorite political blogger, Ezra Klein, started a food blog with his friends called The Internet Food Association, which I've been reading pretty steadily since it started, a few months ago. Today, Ben Miller has a post up called "A New Way To Grocery Shop" (click here) about a new device that you may have seen in your grocery store: it's a scanner you take with you while you shop, scanning each item that you put in your cart. This serves two purposes: (1) it lets you keep track of how much you're spending; (2) it expedites the check-out process (they just use your scanner, instead of ringing you up.) However, the scanner also pops up with coupons and special offers based on your shopping choices. This leads to many questions, among them: (1) How much information do you want your grocery store to know about you? (2) How much does it keep permanently on record? Have any of you encountered grocery scanners yet? What do you think?...
