...that to encourage use of his new invention, the shopping cart, market owner Sylvan Goldman hired fake shoppers to push the carts around his store in Oklahoma City? Seems his customers were reluctant to give up their hand-carried baskets.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6150951 | Medical telemetry system with wireless and physical communication channels A telemetry system comprising a transmitter for transmitting signals, preferably electromagnetic signals, and a receiver for receiving the signals from the transmitter. The receiver comprises a receiver contact unit for providing a contact with a transmit... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6079888 | Wet colorant hard copy apparatus media handling to reduce cockle The present invention addresses the problem of paper cockle by stretching the paper as it progresses along the paper path through the wet colorant printing station of a hard copy apparatus. The hard copy apparatus uses a paper feed belt system as a paper ... | 06/27/2000 |
| 6042103 | Printing media pick apparatus and method A media feed apparatus for a printer, with a motorized media pick mechanism and a media support plate movable toward and away from the pick element, so that a stack of media on the plate may be brought into contact with the pick mechanism. A lifter assemb... | 03/28/2000 |