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Well if you really want me to buy even more shit online (let's be real, from Amazon) this is a good way to do it.
At best I don't like small talk or dealing with other people through meaningless interactions. At worst I might have minor social anxiety. I hugely prefer to just walk into a shop, grab what I need, check myself out, and leave.
At this point I'm also just as fast (if not faster) than the paid cashiers and baggers (who need and deserve chairs or stools by the way).
So yeah, if self checkout goes away, I'm buying as much stuff online as possible and generally making fewer trips to the store.
I honestly would like a system where I just buy all my stuff online and pick it up or it's dropped off. I buy the same shit.
It would be more practical to have an enormous Amazon style warehouse with all the food items.
Then we pick our food orders and a delivery comes out. Maybe with the post service or bin service.
Whoever is already driving around to every single house.
Me having to drive fo supermarket isn't great anyway. Just clogs the roads.
Drone delivery system. Sign me up
The idea that whoever is already driving around could handle the increased load is laughably naive. You cannot increase load without increasing capacity.
Also, I've used my local chain's version of this. It's okay for prepackaged stuff but absolutely awful for fresh produce. They also regularly botch orders, because, well, the pickers aren't paid a livable wage and their metrics are all about quantity not quality.
Obviously. It was just a suggestion. Thanks for the agreement 👍
Yeah. Not talking about the bullshit supermarket delivery service. That is awful. A new system built from ground up. Really cutting out supermarkets entirely. Work with local producer's to consolidate in service hubs. Then move from out of those zones.
Fresh fruit and vegetables really needs a different system entirely.
I have heaps of veggies currently and most are going into compost or to the cows. I can consume the amount a single zucchini outputs, let alone 4.
Yet other than putting it in a food bank where it will likely rot. I have no other options.
There's millions in a similar situation. It doesn't benefit me to give it away not does it benefit me to produce tonnes of waste.
Supermarkets are in exactly the same situation. Summer rocks up and they start basically giving away produce or it will spoil.