With the mall culture setting in so fast and retailing being the new buzz-iness, it becomes almost inevtiable for people to compare, rate and select the best for there use. What if You get to decide which superstore they go to?I-Deal is a business idea for startups to help customers determine the ideal deal they're looking for. Imagine using your camera phone to click the barcode of a product and receiving the best deals available in your area for the product. The camera would capture the barcode, convert it into numbers, add your demographic details and send an SMS to a server. This server would compare the price quotes of the product from all superstores in the location and send an SMS back with results classified as Nearest, Best Price and Best Deal. The user can choose if they want the cheapest price, or willing to travel the smallest distance or looking for that free with the product offer.
All this is possible by setting up an SMS Server, a mobile app and product list, store location and quotes from retail stores chains.
Barcodes recently celebrated a birthday. They have been in use for 35 years. Interesting story about how the idea came about, seems as though a grad student overheard the president of a grocery store asking the dean of the school if they would work on the idea. The dean did not take on the job, but the student ran with it. You can read the whole story at our barcode labels history.
ReplyDeleteThanks Frank, this history of the Barcodes is actually very interesting. Thanks for the link, i believe everyone should read the history.
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