Last month, it was announced that Brit supermarket Tesco is teaming up with Wanzl to develop the Tantrum Tamer, a shopping trolley featuring an electronic screen that plays DVDs, CDs and educational games for children and is attached to the handle of the trolley.

Yesterday, The Reporter informed that an Austrian supermarket has withdrawn talking shopping trolleys because punters thought they were just a nuisance.

At the Billa noshatorium in Purkersdorf, talking mobile baskets pointed out bargains to shoppers, while robotic cleaners roamed the aisles politely requesting loitering buyers to move. Neither went down well with the Austrian purchasing public, and have been removed as a result.