About 3 years ago, i was wondering why is Americana selling their salads and sandwhiches in Coop and is there a market for such fresh 3 day expiry products. Today there are about 4 companies competing in the same segment. Diet care, low fat, Americana and Lina’s and Dina’s and more are coming for sure. Just a little stat, Americana delivered to the Coop an average of 50 pieces/Coop and that got all sold in the first 2 days.  So there are people going to Coops and buying such food items, maybe for work or school.

When you next time see the products displayed in the Coops check out the price differnces between them.

So now sleeping at work is being promoted, i like the idea but not the product. It looks like you can suffocate inside it. But research has been done on sleeping for 40m at work can give your system a boost and make your energy levels increase. I do this but not at work but when i get back from work, i try TRY to sleep on 50m and its good because i dont go into this deep sleep.  (created by a spanish designer)

Tesco homeplus opened a virtual grocery store in a south korea subway station, where users shop by scanning QR codes on their smartphones

Billboard depicting actual supermarket shelves

A large, wall-length billboard was installed in the station, designed to look like a series of supermarket shelves and displaying images and prices of a range of common products. each sign also includes a QR code. users scan the code of any product they would like to purchase, thereby adding it to their online shopping cart. after the web transaction is completed, the products are delivered to the user’s home within the day.

the strategy makes productive use of commuters’ waiting time, while simultaneously saving shoppers time spent going to the supermarket.

video footage documenting the concept and actualization of the virtual supermarket

For more info, visit: http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/16/view/15557/tesco-virtual-supermarket-in-a-subway-station.html

Inside a parking lot in malaga, i found this machine that you place one euro and then blow inside using a straw. I guess it analyses the alcohol in your breath. If your alcohol level is high, your car gets locked by the tires and the machine automatically calls the cops to come and pay you a visit, NOT really:P but think about it, your drunk as hell and then u see this machine, i guess you would laugh like crazy, then what you just sit and wait it out?

I tend to look around for new stuff that catches my interest and i found this store in Barcelona, its a watch place but you can customize the watches or the wrist band. I like the idea of choosing a wrist band color or having many that you can switch between.

The pic is kinda taken further away because the lady in the store said i should take a photo only from the outside.

Even in Spain i have found this bike rental terminals, they use an RFID technology to release the bikes. So this means that customers subscribe to the service and get a card that they swip on the terminal. Then the terminal unlocks the bike for use.

Man its the worst budget airline i flown with, am a short guy and when sat in there seats i felt cramped, its was so tight that if i opened the food tray my lower lips would be the support for it:p

I flown to Barcelona from Orly airport in Paris, a small info about this airport is that in the 1980 i think, a terrorist fired a bazoka on an Isreali plane, and he missed and hit another plane because of the recoil, maybe he drank something other than ZamZam cola:P.

Check out the ads vueling has on its seats, and the other pic is for customers to know there rights because of these budgets airlines and how they dont offload there customers when some mechanical problem occurs and they stay hours in the closed and tight seats.

I saw this in McDonalds Barcelona, i guess for a faster ordering and reduce queue time. If you see it from McDonalds management point of view, they may have calculated that customer average time to order is 3 minutes and by introducing this terminal it drops queue time by a minute maybe. Then multiple this minute by how many customers they may serve more. Banks do this too, they calculate that queues are a waste of time. It all revolves around more analysis and to reduce cost.

While in paris (4 days back) i have visited a nice looking store called the La Cure Gourmande. Its like the butter biscuits that Americana sells in Kuwait;P but very tasty. You can smell the different flavors they have in each biscuit in the store, orange, rose, fig and many more. Plz dont think of franchising and think of doing something like it instead:)

I have seen many sweet shops like the ones in Kuwait; the sweet factory but this one is a new idea. Happy Pills is a sweet store in Barcelona, Spain. It sells the exact sweets found in the sweet factory Kuwait but it presents the sweets as a gift. They have these small bottles for customer to fill them in with sweets and attach a sticker to them. The store placed its self differently not like ordinary sweet shops. Like Parker pen if you remember it, its still places its self as a gift to give someone and not a pen.