Microsoft Will Stream Ads To Grocery Carts

dptalia writes "Later this year, at ShopRite supermarkets in the eastern US, Microsoft will be rolling out computerized shopping carts. These carts will allow people with a ShopRite card to enter their shopping list on the ShopRite site from home, and then pull up the list on their grocery cart when they swipe their card. The new carts will also display advertisements depending on where in the supermarket the cart is, using RFID technology to help locate it."

Comments

Now Bill Gates, Ray Ozzie & Steve Ballmer

[Anonymous Coward]

can advertise in the aisles?
to hawk Vista to niggers while they buy their chicken and watermelons?
ABSURD

Of course it will.

[Anonymous Coward]

Those grocery cart adserving systems will run Linux, as most things will, and in fact Linux is so well-designed it will run as fast as a nigger runs on the Serengeti when being chased by a leopard or a system 7.

Re:What is a grocery store?

[MichaelSmith]

I am guessing that you are not a woman.

Re:What is a grocery store?

[Anonymous Coward]

I dont have a problem driving 3mins to the supermarket

Classic. You're *driving* THREE MINUTES to the supermarket,
You keep driving your car for a three minute trip. And your countrymen will keep dropping bombs to protect your oil supply.

Re:obligatory

[indifferent children]

It also has quite a high name recognition amongst end-users.

You know who else has high name recognition? Hitler.

You know who has low name recognition? Thousands of companies that make hardware and software that works so well, that no one (aside from a few techies) knows that they're there.