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AlibabaGroup #newretail grocery concept, Hema
- samstave 8y agoIm going through a phase of depression right now, and I see things like this and it triggers a bit of discomfort with me regarding the future we are building. I see these robotic grocery stores and fawning over the technology in them - with the comments about buying online, sending orders for delivery and dynamically adjusted pricing for food and it just feels really plastic, inhuman and depressing. Food, and the experience of just purchasing the ingredients to make food is all so completely packaged and manufactured. It really illustrates why people pay a premium for the false illusion of "farm to table" all-natural-ness theme-park-ride-like dinners... and how fake that is as well. I get the convenience of this, but at that same time, I am turned off by this as it just feels like we are trying so hard to live in a Lego and Play-Mobile reality.