Rant on shipping

[MoKelly]

Can I borrow your phone?

Ha! I hadn’t thought of that.

MoKelly

 

[BravoXray]

I read today Amazon is opening its first “grab and go” grocery store in Washington state.

You bring your phone and Amazon app in the store. It magically knows what products you put in your cart. It charges you when you leave the store and provides a detailed receipt to your phone.

No checkout. No slowing down when you leave.

MoKelly

So are they going to check you to make sure you have your phone, it is on, and have the app loaded? Otherwise, couldn't anyone saunter in, stock up, and leave?

 

[Frankenkubota]

I read today Amazon is opening its first “grab and go” grocery store in Washington state.

You bring your phone and Amazon app in the store. It magically knows what products you put in your cart. It charges you when you leave the store and provides a detailed receipt to your phone.

No checkout. No slowing down when you leave.

MoKelly

Funny. I remember one of my proffs in the 70s getting dreamy eyed talking about the day when we just roll our cart past sensors without stopping, for check out.

Still gotta bag it.

 

[MoKelly]

So are they going to check you to make sure you have your phone, it is on, and have the app loaded? Otherwise, couldn't anyone saunter in, stock up, and leave?

Don’t know the answer - but - I’m sure they have figured that one out before opening.

MoKelly

 

[kenmbz]

hmm, think the system is fast enough to catch a motorized cart?

 

[goeduck]

I read today Amazon is opening its first “grab and go” grocery store in Washington state.

You bring your phone and Amazon app in the store. It magically knows what products you put in your cart. It charges you when you leave the store and provides a detailed receipt to your phone.

No checkout. No slowing down when you leave.

MoKelly

They have been out for a while. This is dated Feb of last year.

Inside ‘Amazon Go Grocery’: Tech giant opens first full-sized store without cashiers or checkout lines

Amazon Go is going full grocery. Two years after launching a chain of convenience stores without cashiers or checkout lines, Amazon is opening its first “Amazon Go Grocery” store in… Read More

www.geekwire.com

and the follow up story... drumroll please...

Amazon to scrap its Go Grocery store branding, close Redmond location

Amazon is ditching the Amazon Go Grocery brand, closing one of its two Go Grocery stores and rechristening the other under its Amazon Fresh label, a move intended to reduce confusion about its multiple grocery brands.

www.seattletimes.com

and the renaming of it if it did not work the first time,,,,,

Amazon brings cashierless tech to full-size grocery store for first time at new Seattle-area location

Amazon’s newest physical grocery store opening in the Seattle area this week is unique as it will feature the company’s “Just Walk Out” cashierless technology. It’s the first time the… Read More

www.geekwire.com

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Walgreens has one in San Fran.

 

[Pixguy]

"Shrinkage" must be high.

 

[MoKelly]

"Shrinkage" must be high.

Almost as bad as going swimming in a cold pool!

MoKelly

 

[Pixguy]

Almost as bad as going swimming in a cold pool!

MoKelly

Not quite the shrinkage I was speaking of but yes, George Constanta knows to well what you speak of. Lol