Sunday, March 2, 2014

Feed Me Product Information

Nutella is a staple in our household. Something I discovered on a business trip to Germany about thirty years ago. Like PB&J, Nutella is a quick hunger fix that goes great with graham crackers or any type of bread.

The US market for the product has been growing. As a result, major US brands have been attempting to grab some share of this growing market. As such, I am always inclined to buy the new product and test it out.

The other day I discovered that Hershey's came out with a competing product. There was an end cap in the supermarket that featured the Hershey product as well as Nutella. Almost as if it was a dare to compare.

I had not heard or seen of the Hershey product and was curious about why Hershey's thought their product would be better, however, no further information was available.

As I stood there looking at the product, with my Glass on, I realized it would be nice to be able to scan the barcode to obtain more information about the product.



Are packaged goods manufacturers or any consumer goods manufacturers considering using the barcodes to communicate not only with POS systems, but also with consumer devices?

Is anyone going to look at how to develop this with Glass?

Well, this will be one of the apps that I will definitely look into. Anyone want to help?





1 comment:

  1. That's a great idea! Though I'd need at least another year to be up to where I'd feel comfortable trying to program something like this...

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