As an HL student, I get to do Paper 3 which is on a case study just for HL people. This year's case study is about a supermarket that wants to update its way of working for the benefit of both the company and its customers.
Today, I have been honored to find one of the most amazing supermarket technology out now: CeBIT's SAP.
It is basically a technology that allows shoppers to use their phone number as shop lists so that when they enter the supermarket, instead of wandering around looking for the item they want, SAP looks up the items on the server, creates a map with the most efficient route to shop for all your items and shows the available brands and prices. The application is also an on-the-fly checkout system that scans the price of items as they're lifted off the shelves and charges them to an account. The only disadvantage is that it is too costly for the mass retail market since it requires RFID tagging.
This sure an awesome technology but it is yet to be implemented in stores.
Source: Australian IT
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