[?] [?] on-line systems, which oblige shoppers to navigate computer [?] [?] text, ShopperVision tries to simulate on a video screen the experience of pushing a grocery [?] down a store aisle; it's [?] thing yet to a "virtual store". From the opening menu, [?] will choose the kind of store they want to browse through ( supermarket, drugstore, [?] [?], etc...). Win-Dixie, a [?] chain, and Eckerd Drug are participating in the test. [?] inside the " store", the TV will [?] " [?]" holding [?] 100 digitized images of [?]-name package goods- boxes of soap [?], [?] food, breakfast cereal- which shoppers armed with a [?] [?] to scan( scruter, examiner), zoom in on and select for [?]. Careful shoppers will be able to turn a box of cookies 180 degrees and scan the list of ingredients. After final selections, shoppers will have the choice of paying with a credit card or having the [?] added to their [?] cable [?]; the [?] groceries will be [?] from a central warehouse within hours.
from Newsweek, June 6, 1998