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Curious: WalMart proper or WalMart Labs? Unsolicited, free-to-steal idea dept.: I think there's a non-zero market (in some markets) to charge/invite customers
by burntrelish1273 10y ago
Curious: WalMart proper or WalMart Labs?
Unsolicited, free-to-steal idea dept.: I think there's a non-zero market (in some markets) to charge/invite customers to shop outside NBH / even shutdown 24/7 store temporarily for the right $$$$. I, for one, hate shopping with huge, slow crowds... I'll go somewhere else and/or only go during low-traffic hours. Btw, Costco (and what was PriceClub) used to do this (eg early hours) for commercial and executive customers... (oddly, IDKW I haven't downgraded to Basic given there's almost no advantage to Executive these days.) Apple, although upmarket extreme, also does this for shopping and training.
Also, wish large chains would trial Amazon Go-style cashierless checkout, but perhaps adding a paper receipt for legacy interop/loss prevention/audit. All kinds of great, reusable data could be had with ML/CV with real-time, total product awareness. Lots-and-lots of cameras, networking and datacenter floorspace... but likely worth the investment. AI tallying up what was taken as-it-goes saves a great deal of human effort and customer time, basically an inevitable modality.
EDIT: Maybe in the future, we won't even need stores when/if drones can bring things around to try out/handle returns/prevent loss. Can picture drones from multiple vendors jostling to sell competing product, getting angry with each other and undercutting pricing of each other in real-time. Perhaps even drones carrying flowers / selling "Rolex'es" on a train.
- pxeboot 10y agoI would gladly pay $500-$1,000/year for a dedicated parking area and access to a no-wait checkout lane at Costco. Could be part of a 'Signature' membership or something.
- trevyn 10y agoCostco is on Instacart in my market (LA), how about yours?
- joshka 10y agoSam's club has cashierless payment https://www.samsclub.com/sams/pagedetails/content.jsp?pageName=scan-and-go https://www.samsclub.com/sams/pagedetails/content.jsp?pageNa...
- jack_kc 10y agoThis is a great app. Sam's Club has been my grocery store of choice since I started using this app.
- bdcravens 10y agoWalMart Grocery's online order/pickup in store option is great. Comparable to Instacart's shopping experience, without the markup - you just drive to pickup, and it's already bagged and brought out to your car.