pretty dang good ideas - by jim swinghammer

idea #1

a sweet jimmy original


a timely idea
for this holiday shopping season...it goes like this
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kiosks at the mall
with touch screen google-like searchable data bases
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you log on
so that retailers
and their corporations
can collect data about your needs
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you put in the item/s name or a description of the item
and a meta crawling search engine goes to work
combing inventory lists and retail data from mall vendors
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for the end user - the shopper
tonnes of advertising maybe some coupons
item descriptions, store/s where they can be found, product availability, related merchandise
a "you are here" map with directions to appropriate retailers
a choice of route parameters
like quickest, shortest
and a special setting for devoted shoppers - window shopping
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window shopping would take the shopper
on personalized route past stores and items of interest
identified based on relevence to that days item/s requested
data collected from previous mall visits
new items in stock since last log in
cross referenced with the user's preferences
and a mall time limit entered by the shopper
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retailers will benefit from extensive advertising iniatives
and the eventual efficiency of an online hybrid program
that will facilitate fully automated online order taking
bookkeeping
and shipping labels
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from making shopping simpler
to taking shopping into cyberspace
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good idea or
great idea
you decide
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i'll tell you this though
sweet jimmy has spent a lot of time at the mall this month
i think it's getting to me