Bashas tried those carts for a while. Within the year they had removed all
of them. I guess it got too much when not only did you have to have
someone round them up but plug them in. Which means that you needed to
keep something like 25% to 30% more than normal on hand. Otherwise all you
have is a cart with a box which did nothing due to dead batteries
>
> I wonder how much that would cost per cart. The reason I say that is, what
> about all the carts that are left in the parking lot, or better yet, hit by
> cars or "walk away" completely? I would think that it would be tough to
> create electronics that could take 116 degrees in Phoenix and -40 degrees in
> Minnesota, or a couple of bumps in the parking lot. Maybe the answer would
> be that you are not allowed to take the cart into the parking lot at all,
> but how else am I going to get all that "stuff" that I just bought out to my
> car? Maybe we go back to the time where someone actually walked out the the
> car with you and helped you load your car. Wouldn't that be nice!
>
> It's a great idea, and I love the fact that they want to use Linux, but it
> might be hard sell.
>
> Mark Holbert
> mark@linuxsoftware.org
>
> --------------
> >moin, moin,
> >
> >There's a project to convert m$ wince app to Linux. It is financed by an
> unnamed retail company of some sort and they needed coders to make it
> happen.
> >
> >They want to install small portable computers on shopping carts. Each
> computer will show position of the cart in the shop, keep calculating the
> bills and run ads. It >is currently working with wince, but they'd prefer
> Linux.
> >
> >All computers will have wireless connection to the main server which has
> the data base and stores information about ads, etc.
> >
> >Rough estimate - 500 man-hours of work.
> >
> >For further info contact Sergey Nikitin, Sergey@m-and-s.com.
> >
> >PS A couple of years ago Sergey ported the JDK to Linux by himself and the
> Blackdown Project needed to catch up to his work :).
> >
> >ciao,
> >
> >der.hans
> >--
> ># der.hans@LuftHans.com home.pages.de/~lufthans/ www.Opnix.com
> ># Science is magic explained. - der.hans
>
>
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