Meanwhile, Stop & Shop plans to roll out new intelligent shopping carts from IBM and Cuesol that promise to give shoppers the power of an internet computer at their fingertips, allowing for faster and more personalized service.(Retail Round-Up)(Services)(Brief Article)

Food Institute Report, The, October, 2004

* Meanwhile, Stop & Shop plans to roll out new intelligent shopping carts from IBM and Cuesol that promise to give shoppers the power of an internet computer at their fingertips, allowing for faster and more personalized service. Stop & Shop's new "Shopping Buddy" includes a wireless, touch-screen IBM computer on the shopping cart, equipped with a laser scanner to allow shoppers to scan items as they place them in the cart and to use loyalty cards to alert the store that they have arrived.

Stop & Shop will retrofit its three pilot stores with the new IBM-Cuesol systems and plans to install 20 additional stores in the first quarter of 2005.