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Carrefour brings out in-store app SHOPPING in an unfamiliar supermarket, when you don’t know the layout, can be a real problem but now supermarket giant Carrefour has brought out an app to help shoppers find the food they are looking for in their shops. C-ou is the name of the app brought out by Carrefour, available for iOS
and Android, which will help shoppers find their way
around the supermarkets without having to walk down every aisle, examining every single shelf until they finally find what they want. All the app needs is the name, either by brand or generic, of the product being looked for and then it shows a map of the supermarket with a red dot where the product in question is located. Apart from guiding them around the shop the app also informs shoppers of any special promotions and will suggest recipes based on the ingredients in their baskets. At the moment it is only available in France but, hopefully will spread out to their franchises soon.
FOOD & DRINK
Bubbles in Champagne and Cava THESE most festive of drinks wouldn’t be the same without their characteristic bubbles. The bubbles in Champagne and cava form because they go through two fermentation processes, the first to change the grape juice into wine and the second to change the wine into Champagne or cava. It is this second fermentation, with yeasts and sugars, which produces an abundance of CO2 which can let out up to 30 bubbles per second. The University of Reims, in France, did a study on the importance of bubbles in Champagne and cava and concluded they were essential not only for the look of the drink but also for the sensation on the tongue; there should be a lot of them, they should not be too big and should have a life of their own!