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This is how grocers used to work in the US too.
by eschaton 5y ago
This is how grocers used to work in the US too.
- db48x 5y agoIronically that wasn’t to prevent theft; it was just considered to be better customer service.
- lostlogin 5y agoIt probably saves a ton of space and tidying, but at the expense of needing more staff to serve.
- splitstud 5y agoIt would be beneficial in total labor today, especially in a store with employees picking for curbside exists. Stocking is a big effort overnight. Restocking is problematic during the day, and costs sales. These normal processes (busy people doing stocking and ordering, and inventory existing in 2 places) makes ordering harder. If customers would accept the change it might happen. The rub is studies show customers don't like it, and no browsing means lower sales.
- cft 5y agoIn El Salvador all groceries and pharmacies have a tiny window with metal bars. You ask what you need from the street and they give it to you through the bars.
- walrus01 5y agoAl Jazeera English recently showed a documentary about street gangsters in Port Moresby, New Guinea (apparently a very dangerous place), all the grocery stores looked like that.
- walrus01 5y agoIt might have to go back that way, or I'm thinking that US chains might look at the staffing costs and figure out something like how to deploy the largest versions of the vending machines seen in Japan.
- o___ 5y agoOr just everything via Amazon.
- joezydeco 5y agoThis was how Redbox started. It was a joint venture of Coinstar and McDonald's. https://www.deseret.com/2003/11/13/19795398/redbox-kiosks-close https://www.deseret.com/2003/11/13/19795398/redbox-kiosks-cl... The pivot to only renting DVDs came shortly afterward.
- dahfizz 5y agoOr they will close their CA stores and continue to operate in the rest of the country.