{"id":8733,"date":"2013-05-07T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=8733"},"modified":"2013-05-07T06:57:07","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T10:57:07","slug":"a-war-on-supermarket-queues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/a-war-on-supermarket-queues\/","title":{"rendered":"A War On Supermarket Queues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/050413_0354_AWarOnSuper1.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Julie Jargon looked at how Kroger Co., a supermarket chain, is making sure that customers don&#8217;t have to wait in line:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Using a system called QueVision Kroger uses infrared cameras \u2013 similar to those used by the military \u2013 to alert managers when lines are building up, informing them that more lanes need to be opened.<\/li>\n<li>QueVision also takes into account hourly and daily fluctuations in shoppers and informs managers so that they can plan their lane operators accordingly.<\/li>\n<li>Overall the system is credited with reducing average wait times by almost 90% from 4 minutes to 26 seconds.<\/li>\n<li>Kroger isn&#8217;t alone in fighting long lines. Wal-Mart recently released a new system where shoppers can scan their purchases into their smartphones and then use that information to quickly self-checkout.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about how other companies are reducing wait times, the impact the system has had on Kroger&#8217;s financials, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887323798104578453293807869744.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887323798104578453293807869744.html\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julie Jargon looked at how Kroger Co., a supermarket chain, is making sure that customers don&#8217;t have to wait in line: Using a system called QueVision Kroger uses infrared cameras \u2013 similar to those used by the military \u2013 to alert managers when lines are building up, informing them that more lanes need to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/050413_0354_AWarOnSuper1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8733"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8770,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8733\/revisions\/8770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}