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This is not a good idea so I'll keep it
brief.
You pay £50 to go in. You get a trolley.
Fill
it up and go.
Goods are packaged in oversize boxes to
achieve a constant value/volume ratio.
Customers will not believe this, and will
always be seeking the non-existent
bargain.
Mathematicians,
geometers,
crystallographers and topologists will be
at an advantage in finding the optimal
packing for a set of unequal cuboids.
Special offers such as "free ketchup when
you buy a family pack of burgers" can be
accommodated by packaging the goods
in such a way that the ketchup bottle (but
nothing else) fits snugly into a recess in
the burger pack.
Thank you and good evening.
supermarket game show, same idea
http://en.wikipedia...i/Supermarket_Sweep
baked in the US [dentworth, Mar 10 2008]
12 Toilet rolls, £3.95
http://www.sainsbur...id=1689949376102853
[hippo, Mar 10 2008]
Supermarket Tetris
Supermarket_20Tetris
[hippo, Mar 10 2008]
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<tosses in a pack of lager...> |
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<...and a bar of chocolate> |
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...tiny caviar in a giant box... |
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Aren't we trying to find a way to *reduce* packaging? Maybe just put a big bin outside the market to put those big boxes in for re-use or recycling. |
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Beware origami shoplifters, who surreptitiously re-fold the packaging. |
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Ah but you never said how high one could stack the trolley and you need to dis-allow duct tape. |
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Let us take as a unit of cost/volume the 12-pack of toilet rolls. The volume of this is about 20 litres and it costs about £4. Therefore the packaging of everything in the store needs to be done on the basis that £1 of value takes up 5l of space in your trolley. So, [po]'s £25 bottle of single malt will occupy a volume of 125l, or a cube 0.5m long on all sides... |
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I don't think that would deter [P]o. |
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The toilet rolls could be compressed, to enhance their value density. That's probably not a bad idea in itself. |
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EDIT: you pay 4 quid for 12 rolls? I pay the equivalent of 2 quid for 24. Are bog rolls heavily taxed in the UK or something? |
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[Texticle] Yes, they are (see link) |
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On the other hand, these are proper
English loo rolls, which can be used in an
emergency for bandaging an amputated
arm or swaddling a lamb born in the
windswept fields of Hilldaleshire. Not to
be confused with the unilamellar gossamer
which Americans wad into an immense ball
in order to provide adequate wipage. |
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Forget the constant value/volume ratio factor - I like the idea for a normal supermarket (perhaps without the high-end goods). The carts would have lids that must close. |
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Let us Tetris champions use our skills to our advantage. |
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[global] Ah yes, Tetris in the supermarket
- that reminds me of an old, old idea...
(see link) |
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