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Massachusetts grocery adds touchscreens to shopping carts

April 28, 2005

CNN/Money: Slap a touchscreen PC tablet onto a regular shopping cart and what do you get? Apparently, something called a computerized "shopping buddy." Quincy, Mass.-based supermarket chain Stop & Shop is trying it out.

Developed by IBM, the shopping buddy is activated with a Stop & Shop card. Among its cool features: pulling up customers' past shopping history, helping shoppers find specific products and allowing customers to remotely order deli items without waiting in line.

The shopping buddy is equipped with a scanner that lets shoppers save time by scanning items as they add them to the cart, bag the groceries themselves and head to the self checkout.

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