Just got off a call with the Director of IT at Overwaitea Food Group (OFG). OFG runs Save-on-Foods, PriceSmart Foods and Urban fare.

I have been trying to reach him over the past one week and left voice mail messages. He got back to us y’day. He is interested in exploring indoor positioning. We have a face-to-face meeting scheduled for Feb. 20th.

ZT: We are in the process of developing a retail store navigation product [explained the key functionality] and would like to know whether it is some thing that you might be interested in.

SOF. We are interested in extending into the mobile space. We have a mobile application for Save-on-Foods, but it does not include the indoor positioning aspect. We are interested in the technology.

ZT: We would like to know more about problems that SOF would like to address with a mobile solution. Could you give us some insight?

SOF: We have a large amount of customer anlalytics data in our databases, but are yet to figure out a good way to use the data. One of the things that we have been thinking about is developing intelligent shopping list. Based on previous shopping behavior data (from Saveon loyalty cards) we could provide recommendations and intelligent shopping lists when the shopper visits the store.

ZT: Would you be OK with providing product lists and product shopping list to us for secure storage to help customers locate products through the app?

SOF: I do not foresee us having a problem with sharing the data. We already share our product lists with a few partners.

SOF: Will you need a projector for the demo?

ZT: We would like to show our mobile application installed on a mobile device. We will try to arrange a live but limited version of the demo at one of your stores.