Your weekly shopping list could soon include bread, milk...and a mini model of yourself, known as a ‘shapie’.

Asda in Trafford has become the first supermarket in the world to install a full body scanner.

Using £2m technology similar to the now defunct scanners at Manchester Airport, it means customers can create 3D miniature replicas of themselves.

Bosses hope their prototype is the start of a new craze - moving away from the ‘selfie’ to the ‘shelfie’ or ‘shapie’ as customers pay £60 for the mini-mes.

Created by the Luxembourg-based Artec Group, they use similar technology to help NASA, architects, doctors and engineers to assess complicated structures and machines.

But the process for shoppers is simple. They step into a booth where cameras take thousands of snapshots from every angle.

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The resulting images are processed by a computer, which takes 12 seconds to create a 3D model on-screen, with accurate geometric shaping and colouring, to be sent to an off-site 3D printer.

On the next weekly shop, the customer can then pick up an 8in exact replica of themselves, with every tiny detail exactly etched in porcelain.

First in line were siblings Harper Torkington, five, and his sister Molly, four, from Monton, Salford.

Their mum Debbie, 37, said: “I just want them as keepsakes so I can look back and see how cute they are.

“I might put them in their bedrooms, or give them as a gift to their grandparents - or if I can’t let them go I’ll keep them.”

Some Asda stores offered hand-held scans last year - but they take much longer than the 12 second full body machine.

Phil Stout, Asda’s innovation manager who hails from Atherton, said: “Manchester is a technology based city and it had the first airport body scanners - so it seemed fitting it should be the first city to get one of these.”

Many customers have already shown interest - from soldiers wanting to leave their replica behind with family, to sports people with their medals, to people on a diet using their model as a motivational tool.

Artem Yukhin, president of Artec, said there are also sad reasons.

He added: “We have had a woman who was dying from cancer and she wanted to leave one for her family - that is very sad but shows that there really are so many reasons why people want these scans.”

Mr Yukhin hopes to use the scanner to create personalised computer game characters, or post 3D images on social networking sites. There are also health uses - to help athletes monitor muscle distribution, for example. The trial prototype is in Trafford’s Asda until June 22, and if successful could lead to a roll-out across 10 stores this summer.