A New Grocery

[digitS']

Amazon will begin to open grocery stores across the US in 2017.

They will not have checkout. No lines ... Go.

Check in with your phone. Grab it off the shelf and put it straight into your bag.

Watch the woman who changes her mind on whether she will take the product ...

... looks like it will work .

Steve

 

[ninnymary]

Amazing. Wonder how many of these stores there will be and where.

Mary

 

[digitS']

The one opening in Seattle has 1,800 sqft of retail space. I think I'm right there, should probably check.

Anyway, these would be small stores - "convenience" size. The information out there suggests 2,000 more. That's probably potential sites based on demographics.

Some modern corporations have deep pockets and enormous potential to raise $.

Steve
pre-soopermarket childhood, when a Mom & Pop system existed across the country and on every twelfth residential block, it seemed

 

[ninnymary]

I think it's sad that we are moving away from dealing with people. Now there will be no cashiers who welcome you or in my case, for me to chit chat with. I sometimes can't find an item, who will help me with that?

Mary

 

[bobm]

I think it's sad that we are moving away from dealing with people. Now there will be no cashiers who welcome you or in my case, for me to chit chat with. I sometimes can't find an item, who will help me with that?

Mary

Microsoft's Windows 10 has a feature icon on the bottom left corner of the screen titled " Ask me anything " . Go for it ... ask her anything !

 

[digitS']

Economy of scale may not displace too many on the floor. People will still need to make the sandwiches and stock shelves. Sandwiches ... the first deli I was in was in NYC. (I lived in "Small Town, USA" and lunch counters had sandwiches. Altho ... we had a delightful choice of cheeses on the NorCal coast with all the dairies .)

DS, a GenX'er, thinks of a kitchen as a place to sit down and eat. I bet he doesn't cook anything for a month at a time. DD, Millennial, doesn't seem to be able to leave the driveway without a plan to turn into a drive-thru within 2,000ft.

Automation is a higher and higher wall against full employment for everyone wanting and needing a job. If we don't control our population growth, we may as well pay young people to just walk around and smile at others.

Chitchat? I prattle on like an idiot out of anxiety that I will asked something I won't hear. Yesterday, after I arrived at a checkout counter. I'm sure that it was just the "senior" vitamins in the basket that gave me away. The checker gestured towards the card swipe and said, something.

I said, "no" and handed him cash. He said, "NO?" I looked back and noticed the little card above the machine: "over 55? Tuesday afternoon discount!"

"Oh, yeah!"

I see the monitor, it says "19.45." I say, "no, I don't remember it ..." He laughed, takes my twenty, and shooed me towards the doors. I had a some change that dropped in the tray for the bellringer out front. He said something, I nodded and smiled - an important part of my communication skills.

Steve

 

[Smart Red]

DigitS'...

 

[majorcatfish]

rather have the interaction of store personnel and waiting in line catching the local gossip...
sounds like a good way for jeff bezos to fund his rockets, space travelers on mars need to eat as well... somebody has to be first.
nothing like a Olympus Mons wrap and recycled water for lunch...yum...

would be fun just to walk into one of these stores...

 

[ninnymary]

Steve, I like to chit chat at the grocery store. My husband says I know everyone there. Not really. I will go to my favorite cashier, Lorraine, even if her line is long. Sometimes she's on the express checkout though. Then Linda is my next favorite cashier, followed by Mellie. I always enjoy talking to them. Same as with the produce people. I may not know their names but I know their faces. I know it makes their day to know that someone noticed them and made them smile.

They opened a new store half the distance to me than my regular one. Tried it several times but people there were just not friendly. I prefer to drive a little further to enjoy my shopping experience.

Mary

 

[majorcatfish]

our local store has come along way in the 17 years that we have lived out here. we buy most of our meats from them best cuts at best prices..
you know everyone in there. and they take your groceries out to your car....home town service.

http://www.stokesdalebirite.com/home

being a small store there are limited on what they carry. but they are moving into the 21 century couple years ago they installed scanners at the check out, before it was a old school cash registers.... there are times that we hit food lion for certain things but we try to stay local...

best part is they have a hot dog cart out in the parking lot during the summer...