Fitness Freaks

Do you find yourself loading up your trolley with ice-creams, cheese, chips and cookies when you go shopping for your groceries? Do you think your waistlines would have been smaller if these junk foods did not reach your kitchen? Here’s some great news for all you calorie-conscious people. EDS, a U.S technology company outlined a concept of ‘intelligent trolleys’ that will read the product’s individual code and give customers information about calories, nutrition, ethical sourcing and the environment. The high tech model will be fitted with a computer screen and a barcode scanner. The screens would reduce the need for lots of packaging for food, helping stores to tackle environmental concerns. Shoppers want barcode readers on their trolleys to calculate the nutritional content and tell them when they have blown their calorific budget says EDS’s Sion Roberts, director of consumer industries and retail. Trials of such touch screen trolleys have begun in some of the stores in the Unites States. I think it is a great idea as it prevents people from going overboard with food though I wish we could have some technology that would warn us when we stuff our tummies with junk food! Image Source