| The new intelligent shopping cart | | Posted Tuesday, January 31, 2006 1:56:32 PM by Rose Martins | When you hear the term "shopping cart", what comes to mind? Shopping cart is no longer just the simple cart used in a supermarket or grocery store to hold the items you have selected for purchase, until you are ready to pay at the checkout counter, that also have pieces that can be folded down to make the cart larger, or unfolded to allow a child to sit in the cart. 
Thanks to ecommerce, a shopping cart today also means a virtual cart or list of items you have selected online for purchasing, which will be emptied once you've made payment by means of credit card or online voucher.
Some retail stores require you to make a small cash deposit in order to use a shopping cart. The cash deposit is then returned to the user, on return of the shopping cart. This is an attempt to try and limit the amount of shopping carts that go missing, left abandoned in strange places. Other retail stores still provide the service for free.
The latest development in shopping carts, is the intelligent shopping cart. The intelligent shopping cart is a cart that hosts a wireless, touch screen IBM computer equipped with a laser scanner to allow shoppers to scan items as they place them in the cart. This serves as a more convenient method of shopping and a quicker, easier process of totaling up the contents of the shopping cart and making payment at the end. It also reduces the amount of theft and shop lifting.
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| | | Cop suspended in cart case | | Posted Sunday, February 04, 2007 3:07:17 PM by Blog57 Team | | A police officer who reached out of his patrol car to drag a homeless woman's shopping cart 12 miles was suspended for 30 working days without pay. Officer Nicholas Evans was not being suspended for helping the homeless woman but for pulling another cart during his following shift, police officials said. .... | |
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| | | Get a handle on germs with shopping cart wipes, stores urge | | Posted Thursday, January 25, 2007 1:21:49 PM by Blog57 Team | | Before stocking up at the supermarket, shoppers are swabbing down their grocery carts in an effort to kill cold and flu germs but experts say the practice may be giving shoppers a false sense of security. Dan Woods, manager of the infectious disease program for Alberta's David Thompson Health Region, said the disinfectant wipes are a good idea but notes that people should be vigilant and adopt a broad approach. "When you go to the grocery store the entire grocery store should be considered contaminated and really what you should do is to practise good hand hygiene and keep your hands away from your face, which is a primary mode of transmission," he said. Mike Lupien, a spokesman for Sobeys in Western Canada, said the supermarket chain decided to introduce the disinfectant wipes to curb the transfer of harmful bacteria.... | |
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| | | LOOKING IN ON: EDUCATION | | Posted Sunday, January 14, 2007 3:30:33 PM by Blog57 Team | | The next time Michael Watson goes shopping, he plans to add a few extra items to his cart for Cunningham Elementary School, where his grandson is in kindergarten. Watson has learned that the campus, with help from the organization Communities in Schools, is going to distribute backpacks filled with nutritious food for needy students to take home for the weekend. "I don't have a problem buying a case of tuna fish if they could use it," Watson said. He suggested other people might be equally willing to pitch in, once they know that help is needed. "The problem is, Las Vegas is a very transient town, nobody knows each other," said Watson, a 20-year resident. And so it's hard to build community spirit. But efforts are being made.... | |
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| | | Xonca Ecommerce Shopping Cart Software Released | | Posted Monday, January 01, 2007 1:13:26 PM by Blog57 Team | | Arquan, a Wichita, KS based ecommerce software company has released the new Xonca ecommerce software. Xonca is a hosted ecommerce shopping cart software solution built, hosted, and maintained by Arquan. "Xonca is ecommerce software targeted at two main groups of Internet professionals. SEO (Search Engine Optimization) professionals needing search engine friendly shopping cart software and web designers who desire complete design control are the audience for this software," quotes Russell Tolle, president of Arquan. "Both of these groups need robust, affordable, and supported software implement for their customers," continued Tolle. Tolle also goes on to explain, "Even though we seek out web designers and SEO professionals to partner with, the target audience is also the merchant who will in most cases be managing the storefront.... | |
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| | | Stores Count on Post-Christmas Shopping | | Posted Wednesday, December 27, 2006 3:10:47 PM by Blog57 Team | | Retailers regrouped Tuesday, hoping that after-Christmas shopping would help them make up for a holiday season that fell short of expectations, while their customers were back in the stores looking for deeper and deeper discounts. With mounds of unsold winter clothes to move out, retailers were further slashing already heavily marked-down goods -- a typical response to a less-than-satisfactory season. At a Bath & Body Works store in Buckland Hills mall in Manchester, Conn., Maria Ness was loading up on hand lotions and other items for herself. "I've been waiting for the sale," Ness said. Many shoppers were armed with the gift cards they just received. Josh Hefner was pushing a cart loaded with a wreath, decorative lights, tree ornaments and wrapping paper through a Target store in Apex, N.C.... | |
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| | | Their carts runneth over -- Shopping Cart Brigade's debut nets ... | | Posted Monday, November 27, 2006 1:21:00 PM by Blog57 Team | | If Debbie Bryant started the annual Festival of Lights parade in Ottawa yesterday with her fingers crossed it wasn't long before she could relax them. Bryant was the spark plug for the Shopping Cart Brigade -- the popular parade's newest entry. And she was positively beaming when her team of 10 shopping cart jockeys and assorted helpers finished the parade route through downtown Ottawa -- an event that ended for them with complete satisfaction. Their purpose was both silly and serious. Last summer Bryant had seen a shopping cart troupe in action at a parade in Rexford, Idaho. Ladies pushing a convoy of shopping carts performed various maneuvers while watchers placed donations of canned goods and other nonperishable goods in the carts that would be distributed to the needy. Inspired, Bryant approached Handy Foods in Ottawa about the loan of some carts.... | |
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| | | Local firm has e-shopping solution | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 11:48:04 AM by Blog57 Team | | Arquan, a Wichita-based software technology company, will launch Xonca 3.0 -- a new e-commerce shopping cart software -- in December. The seven-year-old company, founded by native Kansan Russell Tolle, is now marketing the software to select customers as it gears up for the official launch of the new product. Xonca (pronounced Zonka) is designed to make Internet sales easier for stores, Web page design more flexible for web designers and software services easier to integrate for web hosting companies. "We've been busy developing this product for the last several years," Tolle said. "Now, the main task is to make it a recognized name, widely available to web designers." The software is a hosted product, meaning that users do not need to download or manage anything on their own computers.... | |
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| | | Science figures into shopping cart | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 11:10:03 AM by Blog57 Team | | POCATELLO, Idaho n Most people are probably totally unaware of the myriad ways agricultural research touches and improves their daily life.The last time you strolled down a grocery store aisle, chances are pretty good you didn't give any thought to all of the scientific research and accomplishment that has gone into making those products you put into your shopping cart affordable, safe, nutritional and tasty. .... | |
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| | | Shopping-cart germs, owl nosies, 12 days of Tex-mas, Stones shirts | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 1:49:18 PM by Blog57 Team | | Q: I live near Bright Leaf, and I often hear owls at night. We sometimes see them sitting on roofs on our street. What kind of owls live in Central Texas? I frequently hear two owls calling to each other over and over. Would that indicate that it is mating season, or are they just being territorial? .... | |
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| | | Search Engine Forums Spotlight | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 3:36:11 AM by Blog57 Team | | Links to the week's topics from search engine forums across the web: Cloaking for Religious Reasons - Is Link-bait Ruining The Web? - Yahoo To Test Image Advertising On Mobile Phones - Shopping Cart Abandonment Rates - The Reality Of SEO, and more.<img src="http://feeds.searchenginewatch.com/~r/sew/~4/47363377"/> http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetItemData?uri=sew&itemurl=http%3A%2F%2Fsearchenginewatch.com%2FshowPage.html%3Fpage%3D3623909http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3623909 A Closer Look at Google OneBox Results http://feeds.searchenginewatch.com/~r/sew/~3/47187357/showPage.html http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3623898 A Q & A with Google Product Marketing Director Debbie Jaffe wraps up our four-part series on the special information sections creeping into general search results.<img src="http://feeds.searchenginewatch.com/~r/sew/~4/47187357"/> http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetItemData?uri=sew&itemurl=http%3A%2F%2Fsearchenginewatch.com%2FshowPage.html%3Fpage%3D3623898http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3623898 Highlights from the SEW Blog: Nov.... | |
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