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Microsoft Will Stream Ads To Grocery Carts

Posted by kdawson on from the do-you-want-fries-with-that dept.

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."

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  1. Sound clip by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Here's a sample sound clip.

  2. Think of all the things in grocery stores... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...and the places they could go

    Well, step aside my friend
    I've been doing it for years
    I say, sit on down, open your eyes
    And open up your ears

    Say
    Put a tree in your butt
    Put a bumblebee in your butt
    Put a clock in your butt
    Put a big rock in your butt
    Put some fleas in your butt
    Start to sneeze in your butt
    Put a tin can in your butt
    Put a little tiny man in your butt
    Put a light in your butt
    Make it bright in your butt
    Put a TV in your butt
    Put me in your butt
    Everybody say

    I, hey, that's, man, I ain't putting no trees in nobody's butt,
    no bees in nobody's butt, putting nothing--
    You must be out your mind, man,
    y'all get paid for doing this?
    Cause y'all gotta get some kind of money
    Cause this don't sound like the kind of--
    I'd rather golf, to be perfectly honest,
    than put somethin in somebody's butt
    to be truthful

    Well step aside my friend and let me
    show you how you do it
    When big bad E just rock rock to it

    Put a metal case in your butt
    Put her face in your butt
    Put a frown in your butt
    Put a clown in your butt
    Sit on down in your butt
    Put a boat in your butt
    Put a moat in your butt
    Put a mink coat in your butt
    Put everything in your butt
    Just start to sing about your butt
    Feels real good

  3. Cool. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    well
    i guess thats how the nigger crumbles.

    RAPIER WIT FTW

  4. Gourmet Meal Planner by adougher9 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I've been working on a meal planner that has been described as "frickin overkill". It's called gourmet, but not the grecipe (gourmet recipe) planner on sourceforge. I am currently working on the food ontology. I'll post an email describing it to my website. In the mean time checkout: http://frdcsa.onshore.net/frdcsa/internal/gourmet http://frdcsa.onshore.net/frdcsa/internal/pgourmet I've been writing krecipes but haven't heard from them. Interested. Email me andrewdo@frdcsa.org. Peace!