{"id":1241,"date":"2011-02-27T19:38:39","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T00:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/?p=1241"},"modified":"2011-02-27T19:38:39","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T00:38:39","slug":"shopping-pitfalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/2011\/02\/27\/shopping-pitfalls\/","title":{"rendered":"Shopping pitfalls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Computer software may be able to win on a quiz show, but can it be trusted to identify groceries?<\/p>\n<p>Every week I look through the sale items at my local supermarkets.\u00a0 I do this online, and generally go looking through by category.\u00a0 This week I noticed interesting placement of some items on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stopandshop.com\" target=\"_blank\">one store&#8217;s site<\/a>, which led me to believe that a robot of some kind is categorizing the items in the company&#8217;s database.<\/p>\n<p>To wit:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/stopshop3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1244\" title=\"stopshop3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/stopshop3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"276\" height=\"262\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/stopshop2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1243\" title=\"stopshop2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/stopshop2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/stopshop1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1242\" title=\"stopshop1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/stopshop1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/stopshop1.jpg 284w, https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/stopshop1-173x300.jpg 173w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 284px) 100vw, 284px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, these things are all in proper places in the physical store, but then it&#8217;s humans who place them on the shelves.\u00a0 As things get more automated, it wouldn&#8217;t hurt to keep this kind of thing in mind, lest we end up drinking a loaf of bread, saut\u00e9ing with 10W30, or spreading toy trucks on top of toast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computer software may be able to win on a quiz show, but can it be trusted to identify groceries? Every week I look through the sale items at my local supermarkets.\u00a0 I do this online, and generally go looking through by category.\u00a0 This week I noticed interesting placement of some items on one store&#8217;s site, &#8230; <a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/2011\/02\/27\/shopping-pitfalls\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1246,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions\/1246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}