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Not quite on-topic, but I have to wonder: why go and develop these long-winded solutions when we can come up with obvious better ones? -- order on your phone (w
by pen2l 4y ago
Not quite on-topic, but I have to wonder: why go and develop these long-winded solutions when we can come up with obvious better ones? -- order on your phone (which is nice and easy because you can add to your grocery list with a smart home speaker/smartphone list throughout the day) and then it's automatically packaged (in an automated warehouse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssZ_8cqfBlE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssZ_8cqfBlE ) and delivered?
And for folks who drive to work, have them shipped to their place of work. Places of work make accommodations like have parking for electric cars and cafeterias -- having a place for delivery storage strikes me as an obvious perk that has tremendous benefits for both employers and employees as well as the environment.
- ebiester 4y agoThat's just instacart and the whole foods app and the kroger app and countless others, no?
- kristjansson 4y agoCan confirm that one's workplace accepting packages on one's behalf is a big perk. I don't think they'll accept grocceries through, maybe that's the next frontier.
- pdntspa 4y agoI really don't want anyone but myself grabbing fresh fruits and vegetables off the shelf. Bananas, in particular, I need them at a specific point in their ripeness otherwise they go bad on me way too quickly.
- josefresco 4y agoGet over yourself ;-) I use pickup/delivery frequently and the people that pick my fresh veggies/fruit do a decent job. Some of them are my neighbors!
- pdntspa 4y agoUh, no. Pickup/delivery frequently delivers my food cold and unpalatable. I'm not going to trust that these folks know how to pick fresh vegetables correctly.
- bombcar 4y agoSo let’s use the AI to determine your banana factors after buying in store so it can select them for you for delivery.
- pdntspa 4y agoOr throw all this tech garbage in the trash and let me use my own built-in sensor suite to determine freshness Why is everyone so quick to defer thinking to AI? Do we all want to be dumb as fuck? How many basic skills have been largely forgotten because people have instead learned to lean on technology services like a crutch? We're all turning into the fat lazy fucks on WALL-E
- iepathos 4y agoAutomated warehouses work well for larger items. The number of small items and also the variety of those small items make it hard to justify the space and equipment needed for an automated warehouse solution for groceries, but I really like the thought. Something like a personal robo-shopper would be very cool.