I am updating again. Hooray. I am so boring, along with my entire life, that I probably put people to sleep just by seeing my LJ name...

So the latest news in grocery shopping technology is the personal shopper, as I discovered going to the Shadyside Giant Eagle yesterday. Register for the program and then whenever you sign into the kiosk, you get a personal scangun. Scan and bag your items as you go through the store; at the end you just transmit the data from the gun to the register and pay.

I think this is a pretty cool idea, although it makes me wonder how they intend to safeguard against shoplifting. If you scan and bag everything, who knows what in your bag actually HAS been scanned and recorded, and what you tossed in there without fanfare? I'm sure there's something but I don't know it. Still, as said I like the concept, but I'm a technophile. I'm convinced that there are a large number of people out there who will refuse to use it because they perceive it as adding more work and grief to their experience -- or just that they're too good to do such "lowly" work.

I have no respect or tolerance for the attitude of some people.... can you tell?