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Students at Stibo Accelerator Are Encouraged to Ask:
What If? IT company Stibo invites Master’s students to think up crazy ideas and radical innovation for their thesis projects.
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t’s the smallest supermarket in the city, but it’s also the most technologically advanced. When you choose a product from the shelf, smart price tags guide you to an alternative product, better suited to your allergies or your budget. And when you put that product in your shopping basket, it registers automatically and the tablet affixed to it loads suggestions for potential meals you could make with the product you’ve just chosen.
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A futuristic scenario indeed, but the experimental supermarket, ’Stibo 1000’ was up and running back in 2016—a collaboration between IT company Stibo Systems, the supermarket chain Rema 1000 and three Master’s students studying IT Product Development at Aarhus University. “The initial idea for our thesis project was to find out how we could bring digital features to a physical business such as a supermarket, instead of it
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