"After all," he laughs, "my candidate was blown away by a supermarket scanner."

A24 Another look at the President and the supermarket scanner.

I wish he'd stop reminding people that I didn't know what a supermarket scanner was.

A Brazilian making 75 cents an hour didn't take your neighbor's grocery job; a supermarket scanner did.

Had George Bush ever laid eyes on a supermarket scanner before that fateful day in 1992?

President Bush still bristles about newspaper articles that reported his close encounter with a supermarket scanner in February.

Mr. Nagel observed that supermarket scanners were developed to speed up the checkout line.

Chips are at work in phones, cars, television, home heating systems and supermarket scanners.

The chips rest just under the skin, and when read by something like a supermarket scanner, disclose the pet's identity.

Although the company is secretive about its methods, the increasing sophistication of supermarket scanners helps many marketers find their buyers.