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Re: WECO at stores

:-) as for grocery shopping, I just use PeaPod on the net.
takes the going to the store out of the picture :-) (That's lazy for ya!)

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: From: R. Paul McCarty <>
: To: Walterio W. Mayol Cuevas <>
: Cc: 
: Subject: Re: WECO at stores
: Date: Friday, August 28, 1998 8:44 PM
: 
: The problem with the lowest price on a grocery item, is that odds are one
: item is cheaper at store A, and a second item is cheapest at store B,
etc.
: You would have to first compile a list of what you wanted, and then
: calculate which store is your best bet (I'm assuming I'm too lazy to go
: from store to store with specific items from each, if you factor in the
: amount of time it takes to park, drive, wait in line, my time's more
: valuable then the 50c I'm going to save).  
: 
: I suppose stores might start competing to win certain customers by say
: offering a store that offers the best prices for food for hackers like
say
: pop-tarts, mountain dew, pizza, combos, hot dogs, and maybe cigarettes.
: 
: Could you imagine a whole isle of combos? mmmmmm, combos. :-j
: 
: -Paul
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: 
: On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Walterio W. Mayol Cuevas wrote:
: 
: > Hi to everybody,
: > 
: >    Shopping with wearable computers (WECO) could be very useful, and it
: > seems that it could be more easy done in some countries than in others.

: >    In Mexico, there exists a Federal Consumer Attorney Agency
(PROFECO),
: > which depends of the government, so you can call there and they give to
: > you the average price for a certain product (well, not every product
but
: > at least various of the food kind), and moreover they tell you where
you
: > can buy it at the lower price. If you can make a cellular phone like
call
: > inside a supermarket, then you can obtain such information and compare,
: > and obviously you can store that information (then may be you can store
: > the difference between such price and the store's one so you are not
: > really recording the original price!); I am sure that some people are
: > making that, however a cellular phone call is commonly more expensive
than
: > the possible saving. 
: > 
: >  The stores, even those that are part of an international chain, cant
: > prohibit citizen rights.
: >  
: >  Inceasing the database of PROFECO, and enhancing ways for access (v.g.
: > automated voice systems, web, etc...) then may be here we can see a
true
: > WECO at stores. 
: > 
: >  Then people of other countries can require to their governments such
kind
: > of legal consumer sistems (however, if you cant achieve that, you will
be 
: > allways wellcome here at Mexico :> 
: > 
: >
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