I remember when the cashier punched in the item $amount at the supermarket.
Now cashiers and the customer scans the items bar code.
The bar code indicates price. item, type of item and adjusts inventory totals.
This is what supermarkets are using to track tens to hundreds thousands of items.
What about a bar code that tracks how consumers eat, that tracks everything we eat, how we eat, when we eat, this could be beneficial to the item.
Brands need to engage with customers and they do so physically on the supermarket shelves and with visuals like commercials, print ads, and digital format via social media like Twitter.
So the transformation from barter, to push keys with numbers, to scanning, and now grab n go. What comes next?
I think AI is going to be in sync with the human mind and take care of any grocery spending to us. It will be like a guardian angel in the AI format that will take care of all of our grocery spending that thinks, shops, spends, and arranges the delivery for us.
And it may be just in time too, that may not require a refrigerator to stock the items. I think the just in time principle is shaping up. And the way you can see that is that eating at a fast food restaurant is the example of where consumer spending with regards to food is going.
We cannot imagine a world with McDonald’s, Starbucks, and Buffalo Wild Wings. They supply a need with food on the spot and feeding.
Robots combined with new technology is making things more convenient for the consumer where it will be a seem less experience where AI does all the work we used to do.
Technology is here to stay and it will ever be improving how we pick food in supermarkets and how we eat. The system needs to be corrected that will accommodate where consumers eating matches what the food manufacturer or restaurant has available.
Grocer On a Mission 