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I would hope that grocery stores become warehouses and the only people allowed in are delivery. You could redesign the entire stores to optimize for this which
by fossuser 6y ago
I would hope that grocery stores become warehouses and the only people allowed in are delivery.
You could redesign the entire stores to optimize for this which could reduce the likeliness of damaged goods.
Amazon would be in a good position to do this (the Whole Foods near me already has part of it set aside for something like this).
- wool_gather 6y agoThis would be sort of funny, since many operated like this in the (not recent) past. Customers picking their own products off open shelves was an innovation at one point (and it was greeted by some people with similar disdain as our current self-checkout lines).
- twic 6y agoWhere online shopping reaches sufficient scale, that happens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_store https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_store
- philwelch 6y agoAmazon Fresh works this way already.