If there is an item that could be improved in our eating habits, that is certainly the fact to make the purchase. Do not you ever wondered what it's improved the process of buying food?
I have, several times. The last, a few days ago in a supermarket. If you think about it objectively, the process of going to a supermarket is really weird. First, you enter a large space where you have to travel several hundred meters, looking for the products you want to purchase. A process already pretty inefficient. When you find the product you put in a basket or shopping bag. And then you get all those products that pass through a cash and can afford. And finally, you come to get back into the same bag that you had taken to remove and place them back when you get home.
I do not know, but it seems to me that if an alien extraterrestrial consultant came to see this, hallucinate.
Supermarket Vs Traditional Market
In some respects, supermarkets are an improvement on what could be a traditional market. In part, its success is that you pay all at once. Unlike a traditional market where you're going from stall to stall paying each time in a supermarket you will save each of these individual payments. This makes the process of buying in the supermarket more efficient. In fact, I think the traditional markets should implement a system similar payment.This means that each store gave you a ticket and then pay could hit or mobile.However, the supermarket could also improve significantly. It is true that in some supermarkets have already started to change things, and you can go with a "gun" that reads barcodes to then give the order. But I think some kind of Über, Spotify, etc ... type revolution lack for something to remove the traditional supermarket industry.
Any pending revolution?
There is an online purchase, but I do not mean that. There is a deeply rooted need to socialize purchase. That is, to physically go to the supermarket. We like being in a space with more people, and more than that yet, we need to look like and what we buy. I think, basically, is what we like to choose. To have lots of things to buy. And often get carried away by the temptation to buy what we had not thought of. Clearly this room for improvisation, but you have studied in the large stores of food, and that's where they earn enough money. They also know that the more time we spend walking surface more likely they are to piquemos. It is clear that, in turn, incentives to change the method will be few or none.What I'm going, is that I think with the new smart phones, the process of "download food" to a cart and "re-upload" at the checkout may go down in history. Basically, it would be scanning QR codes go to the end, the output from the supermarket, we got along straight basket, or send us home. In fact I think we should be able to know immediately the amount of what we buy, and not wait until departure for the "surprise".
Moreover, it would not be unreasonable to think of Apps, we entered the Super X, we were escanenado barcodes, and make a joint offer us the best price, from a range of different sites. Of course, the key is to be paid immediately, that very day, or a few hours we have it in our home. Here logistics also have much to say.
Smart Refrigerators
One final point, be "smart fridges". Just as I imagine, would not be like "lets milk always in the same place" that knows when the fridge or not there milk. I think it's more practical to have apps, mobile-fridge, and the latter functions as a food inventory. What we now call theinternet of things.Was it possible that in the same time to buy, our mobile communicated to the fridge so we bought, and it is already updated your inventory. Could know which products are "magnets" and what not. Even we could tell, based on historical data and habits, diets, etc ... of the products that we have forgotten, or what it takes us to program our weekly menu.
Now I ask your opinion, what do not you like about the process? What would you change? Do you think that in a few years buy the same?
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