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   Not surprised..

   

   Chris, Jun 7th, 2002 @ 11:56am

   
   

   This doesn't surprise me at all. When I was in grad school (way back in he early 90's) I was involved in a market study of a company that was putting LCD screens on shopping carts, that communicated via a bunch of sensors in the ceiling. When you walked by a particular product a coupon would pop up on the screen, which you could redeem electronically.Also, they had all that data of your route through the store, how long you stopped at a promoted product, etc. We thought that stuff was far more valuable than the coupon service, but being 1991 or 92, the infrasturcture really wasn't in place to support that kind of data. I company went under right after that, and to this day I haven't seen anybody try it again. The Parkay thing seems to be related, although much more annoying!

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   SMan, Jun 10th, 2002 @ 12:18am

   
   

   Article in yesterday's paper about heat sensors being installed in supermarket aisles to work out where people stop and what they look at. Of course once, you know thye are there you can have some fun.....

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   Re: Not surprised..

   

   Shannon, Aug 12th, 2002 @ 1:42pm

   
   

   I'm interested in the research that you did, I am researching something similar and would like to speak to you about when and what exactly you were doing. Please email me back so we can discuss this.
   
   Shannon

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