Daily Archives: April 26, 2010

When I go to the supermarket, I use a hand-held device from the store to scan each item as it goes in my bag.  You swipe your shopper card when you first get to the store and a kiosk gives you a little ray-gun-like device which scans the bar code.  For produce you weight it and the scale prints a tag which you scan.  As you can see in this video, it’s pretty easy, it offers special savings on some items if you are using th wand, and it allows you to check out at the self-service and express registers in about 30 seconds, saving you quite a bit of time where I shop.  My wife asked an interesting question about these things and we got the answer yesterday as well as a good business lesson. Continue reading →