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  1. This as been running for years. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Amazon Tests a Home-Delivery Service For Groceries

    This as been running for years.

  2. Re:Glass Brita Pitcher!? by yanos · · Score: 1 · on Plastic Chemical BPA Declared Toxic In Canada

    If it's to make some tomato sauce, try some of these, they're in a glass bottle: http://magasin.iga.net/Search/BasicSearch.aspx?Search=coulis%20de%20tomate

  3. LOL by Smartcowboy · · Score: 3, Funny · on EA Signs Deal with Massive and IGA

    For a momment I tough EA signed a deal with a grocery store!

  4. Re:Where's the booze? by mj_sklar · · Score: 1 · on Amazon to Launch Online Grocery Store

    In Montréal, Québec, IGA does online orders and delivery (for only $6 Canadian shipping/handling, too!) with just about everything they carry. That includes fresh meat, fish, veggies, fruits, breads, and yes, beers and wines too. They used to sell cigarettes too, but due to a new law in Quebéc (or just Montréal, I'm not sure, I don't follow politics much), they had to stop.

    So yes, some places CAN get booze delivered straight to your door! Heck, even the government-run liquor store does online orders and deliveries here!

  5. Here's an online success story... by leeet · · Score: 1 · on Step 2, Groceries

    A large grocery company in Quebec has been doing online grocery for more than 6 years now with a pretty good success. You can order pretty much anything you want and they will deliver it to you. All you need to do is to spend 35$ and pay a 3$ delivery fee, which is quite reasonable.

    No capital venture or .com's burning cash here...

    They rather use the power of their vast network, so there's most likely a store pretty close to your place. Your order is then dispatched to the closest store and processed. Very efficient, very fast...

  6. More "Wasted" Cycles by Fractux · · Score: 1 · on The Pentagon Wants Your Secrets

    "We must become much more efficient and more clever in the ways we find new sources of data, mine information from the new and old, generate information, make it available for analysis, convert it to knowledge and create actionable options,"

    As they analyse the information they have gathered on a shady character known as Fractux:

    -New Source of Data Found: IGA cycber market
    -New Information Gathered: Ordered a substantial amount of beer and pretzels.
    -Old Information Gathered: Always orders a substantial amount of beer and pretzels.
    -Information generated: Fractux has ordered a large amount of beer and pretzels from an online shopping market, has paid for it with an overdrawn credit card, and shipped it to his home located no more than 2 blocks away from the store.
    -Analysis: Fractux is displaying all the signs of a lazy, irresponsible University Student who is well on his way to financial ruin.
    -Actionable options: AA

  7. Re:Flexibility? by fmheir · · Score: 1 · on Free Barcode Reader From Radio Shack
    Actually, for grocery shopping, symbol (http://www.symbol.com) makes a bar code scanner (CS2000). You can presently use it at IGA and other grocers at mybutler.com to scan product bar codes (or printed bar coded shopping lists) to order your weekly supplies.

    CS2000 has a documented SDK. We have developed a java software to interface the device to any web site (via HTTP). Overall the interface to such devices is pretty simple. Unfortunately these devices connect to the computer via the COM port, which limits the use (pc only) and requires the device to be tethered to a computer.

    The device is also useless without a serious database of codes (UPC or other in the case of cuecat) since the device can only return the information that it has read (ie. the bar code numbers). Checkout barpoint for what they claim is a database of 100 million UPC.