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Credit: Consumer Reports
 
 
 

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Easy checkout. In-store sensors connected to a smart­phone app keep track of each item you select. The app runs a tally. It also cross-checks your list or selected recipes to tell you what you forgot. As you exit, the app charges your mobile-payment system.

 
 

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Curbside pickup. Order from your smartphone or computer. A staffer loads your bagged order directly into your car, within your chosen time window. Or you can request home delivery.

 
 

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Smaller spaces. Newer stores will be smaller, with more space devoted to fresh produce, as well as deli and prepared items, and less space to interior aisles of branded package goods.

 
 

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‘How may I help?’ Trained “concierges” wander aisles in the supermarket of the future like boutique salespeople, offering meal-prep ideas and other suggestions. As you wander, store sensors connected to your smartphone trigger recommendations, too.

 
 

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Grab and go. Meal kits, rotisserie chickens, and other prepared foods are near the front, where you can buy them in a hurry. Or have whole meals prepared fresh to order while you shop.

 
 

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A feast of info. Sensors in the supermarket of the future, detecting that you’ve picked up an item, launch a display showing nutritional data, possible recipes and food pairings, information on where and how the food was grown or raised, and even the farm’s labor and animal-welfare practices.

 
 

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Pharmacy. Shoppers Drug Mart - Pharmaprix outlets will provide prescriptions and vitamins - allowing customers to quickly pick up their supplies each month.

 
 

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Virtual choices. Rather than encountering a dozen brands of Dijon mustard, you might find four, plus a screen you can scroll through to order one of the eight other varieties, which the store keeps in stock out of sight. The screen recognizes your smartphone and proposes new products to try. Your picks are delivered to you at checkout or directly to your home.

 
 

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PC Brand. Instead of having hundreds of national brands - making inventory more complex and costly, there stores will hold only PC branded items, along with a few dozen top best-selling national brands.

 
 

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Location. Outlets will have two variations - one will be located directly on service roads of major highways, allowing customers to order or call in their order and then quickly pick up their order on the way home from work. The second type will be integrated into office buildings, apartment buildings, where there is a captive pool of shoppers, seeking  fast, easy, and healthy food on the go.