Each month, we’ll propose a scenario and present some ideas and concepts. Then it’s up you: Sketch out your vision and upload your ideas (below). We’ll use the best suggestions as inspiration for a future Found page, giving kudos to contributors, and we’ll add our favorite submission to this story.

This month’s assignment: Imagine the future of your grocery store checkout line. What sort of goods will you pull from the shelves in 2025? What will the average price of a gallon of milk be? Who (or what) will man the cash registers? What about the magazine racks—what dishy headlines will they have? Will carts be more like hovercrafts and be built from biodegradable materials to avoid annoying trolley return? Will they still have those stupid plastic bars to separate your purchases from the purchases of the person in front of you?

You can send us your ideas in text form, but we’re keen on getting visual entries. Check out these links to some CC-licensed photos on Flickr of awesome (and not so awesome) taco trucks to fire up your imagination:

Aerial view of a grocery story
A typical grocery store cart
Escalator for carts
Checkout girl’s uniform
Grocery items on a belt
A checkout line and credit card machine
Another checkout girl
Unmanned checkout counter
Magazine rack

Use the Reddit widget below to submit your best idea and vote for your favorite. The image must be your own — submitting it gives us permission to use it on Wired.com and in Wired magazine. Please submit relatively large images (ideal size is 800 to 1,200 pixels, or larger on the longest side). Include a description of your idea and how you made it.

We don’t host the images, so upload it somewhere else and submit a link to it. If you’re using Flickr, Picasa or another photo-sharing site to host your image, provide a link to the image, not to the photo page where it’s displayed. If your photo doesn’t show up, it’s because the URL you have entered is incorrect. Make sure it ends with the image file name (xxxxxxx.jpg).

Check back over the next few weeks to vote on new submissions, and look for an update announcing our favorite.

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