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Originally posted by gearhounds:
How will thieves be stopped? Will there be loss prevention posted at the doors? Will people without a membership card even be allowed into the store? How will they be stopped from entering? A locking turnstile? It’s an interesting concept but there’s a lot of questions.

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Originally posted by gearhounds:
How will thieves be stopped? Will there be loss prevention posted at the doors? Will people without a membership card even be allowed into the store? How will they be stopped from entering? A locking turnstile? It’s an interesting concept but there’s a lot of questions.

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"...allowing shoppers to pay for a bagful of groceries without the help of a cashier."

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Ugh! who needs retail shopping and consumer interface!

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Originally posted by HRK:

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Heck, before long I expect companies like Publix and Walmart to further branch out to not only delivering your items, but actually unbagging and putting them away for buyers. It actually does seem to be getting that bad.

How is that bad, the purchase of consumer goods at a grocery store is significantly labor intensive, you touch the product you buy a minimum of 7 times just from purchase to storage, not to mention actual retrieval for use. Automating this process down to 2 to 3 touches would be significant.

We may see retail grocery shopping stores become things of the past, or very few in the future, everything will be warehoused, your kids don't give a darn to walk through the produce aisle and finger frig all the veggies.

In fact I'd prefer it if Mary the Veggie pervert wasn't touching every piece of merch in that area.

For Example, at the store last week kept running into this Asian woman. It became comical as she had the same process for every purchase, stand there looking at every option, fondle multiple products, cans, boxes, frozen, fresh produce for everything, you couldn't miss it.. aggravating when she was in the way, and concerning that she felt the need to touch everything, several times.

People coughing, sneezing, wiping booger covered hands on carts corona virus!....

Ugh! who needs retail shopping and consumer interface!

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Originally posted by nhracecraft:

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Originally posted by HRK:

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Heck, before long I expect companies like Publix and Walmart to further branch out to not only delivering your items, but actually unbagging and putting them away for buyers. It actually does seem to be getting that bad.

How is that bad, the purchase of consumer goods at a grocery store is significantly labor intensive, you touch the product you buy a minimum of 7 times just from purchase to storage, not to mention actual retrieval for use. Automating this process down to 2 to 3 touches would be significant.

We may see retail grocery shopping stores become things of the past, or very few in the future, everything will be warehoused, your kids don't give a darn to walk through the produce aisle and finger frig all the veggies.

In fact I'd prefer it if Mary the Veggie pervert wasn't touching every piece of merch in that area.

For Example, at the store last week kept running into this Asian woman. It became comical as she had the same process for every purchase, stand there looking at every option, fondle multiple products, cans, boxes, frozen, fresh produce for everything, you couldn't miss it.. aggravating when she was in the way, and concerning that she felt the need to touch everything, several times.

People coughing, sneezing, wiping booger covered hands on carts corona virus!....

Ugh! who needs retail shopping and consumer interface!

Where does this factoid come from....Can you expand on your theory here? I guess I have to 'touch' each item twice at the store (off the shelf/into the cart and out of the cart at checkout), and once at home to put it away, but beyond that, I'm not following...

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I think
1. Off the shelf into the cart
2. cart to conveyor belt
3. grocery bag into cart
4. cart to car
5. car into house
6. unpack it
7. into cupboards.

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Where does this factoid come from....Can you expand on your theory here? I guess I have to 'touch' each item twice at the store (off the shelf/into the cart and out of the cart at checkout), and once at home to put it away, but beyond that, I'm not following...


I think
1. Off the shelf into the cart
2. cart to conveyor belt
3. grocery bag into cart
4. cart to car
5. car into house
6. unpack it
7. into cupboards.

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Originally posted by Strambo:
I love the union resistance to this...it will get rid of workers!

Where does that line of thinking end? If they were around in the early 1900's they would have put the Kabash on Ford's assembly line!

Artificial in-efficiency is never the answer to the best economy and standard of living...if it were we would go back to the Middle Ages, I'll have your single hammer ready in a half day says the Blacksmith.

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Originally posted by Keystoner:

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Originally posted by corsair:
There's about 20 Amazon Go convienance stores scattered in various cities. This full-size brick n'mortar is just a scaled-up version.

Yes, I went to one in Seattle in September. A lot of sensors in the ceiling. I kept thinking there's no way it's going to get all these items correct. It did and it was impressive.

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Originally posted by a1abdj:
That's too much work! I need an amazon robot to place the food in my mouth for me so that I don't overexert myself.

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Originally posted by bigdeal:
Look, I'm not going to argue or debate that retail grocery shopping is headed the way of the DoDo. What I'm concerned about, especially given I work in tech every day, is the lack of personal interaction skills we already see today in our culture. As we separate more and more from the physical world around us, retreating in a cyber world where personal interaction is all but eliminated, I fear people will eventually lose their ability to deal civilly with one another. Heck, I automate a number of things in my life out of efficiency and convenience, but I think everyone needs to make it a point to get out and interact with each other on a regular basis.

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Originally posted by slosig:

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Originally posted by bigdeal:
Look, I'm not going to argue or debate that retail grocery shopping is headed the way of the DoDo. What I'm concerned about, especially given I work in tech every day, is the lack of personal interaction skills we already see today in our culture. As we separate more and more from the physical world around us, retreating in a cyber world where personal interaction is all but eliminated, I fear people will eventually lose their ability to deal civilly with one another. Heck, I automate a number of things in my life out of efficiency and convenience, but I think everyone needs to make it a point to get out and interact with each other on a regular basis.

Yup. Kids these days already aren’t learning cursive. Handwritten note are a thing of the past, replaced by a text or an email. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen four what appeared to be college kids sitting together at a restaurant meal with all four heads stuck in their phones, texting away.