Bar-Code Scanners and Smart Tags to Change Shopping

Move your calendar ten years forward.  You have the new breed of refrigerators equipped with a web appliance. The appliance keeps track of what is stored in the refrigerator. It can even order stuff from the preferred grocer whatever you want or whatever is missing from your standard inventory. This can even happen at your lunch time from your office. By the time you are back from work, you may even find the ordered grocery in the refrigerated grocery box outside your house besides the mail box. Thanks to cutting-edge technologies based on smart tags and web appliance, the shape of grocery shopping may change a lot.

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Mobileinfo Comments and Advisory: The pieces of technology to make this happen are coming together. Inexpensive smart tags and scanners will enable this m-commerce application more than anything else.  However, the big question is whether we as habit-driven human beings are going to change our habits before the younger generation takes to the new technology without any fuss. Will we find the convenience of not visiting our favorite grocery store more compelling than the natural pleasure of touch and feel. It is a tough call to make. If you ask us, we would strike a note of  caution and say that it will take more than a generation for this seemingly "star-trek" application to become mainstream in our daily lives. However, some early adopters will take advantage of this advanced but what some will call mechanical life style.