So, for those who turn to the Web to understand current events or to delve deeper into their history, information supermarkets abound.
At a practical level it means that by sharing more sales information, a supermarket planning a special promotion, for instance, can be reasonably sure that a supplier will be able to deliver the necessary goods.
The difference is that SimpleUPC does not contain aisle information, while Supermarket API does.
Simply pushing the trolley up to a checkout would relay all the product and price information, so supermarkets could automate most of their tills.
And Rob Sisco, the president of Nielsen Music, which operates SoundScan, said he would like to see the company gather information from supermarkets.
Just two weeks after it criticised Tesco for announcing a series of farm brands to sell products, based on British-sounding, but fictitious names, the NFU is publishing up-to-date information on supermarkets' sourcing policies on own-brand products.
In a recent piece about the food industry's Y2K compliance, for example, it was easy to pull up information about supermarkets, interest groups, government organizations and the reports themselves.
Information: LAX-C Supermarket.
Subsequently, the observed local supermarket information was incorporated into the computer-tailored intervention.
In recent years, Times readers have become accustomed to a supermarket of information in a big multisection paper packed with world, national, suburban and city news and a panoply of sports, business, arts, entertainment, science and other subjects.
