Interesting store concept in Sweden

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utvolpj

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In Sweden's 1st unstaffed food shop, all you need is a phone

Customers simply use their cellphones to unlock the door with a swipe of the finger and scan their purchases. All they need to do is to register for the service and download an app. They get charged for their purchases in a monthly invoice.
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Cool idea. Just have to wonder if it would be empty after its first night in the US
 
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Toujours Pret said:
Hell, stores with staff lose a lot more out the door than most folks realize.
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Very true plus they're expensive, unreliable and moody. I'd definitely try this concept out. Essentially already doing it with self checkout
 
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I didn't read the entire article, but there has been a concept of a unstaffed gas station in the States for quite some time. One of them was designed in Memphis, and I used to drive by it every day about 10 years ago. It is basically one big vending machine. It has a large glass front, and after you order, a machine retrieves your product. The Sweden concept involves your phone and app, but I am not sure that I would let product go out the door unless it was paid for at that time.

I have no idea how successful the store has been here.
 
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utvolpj said:
Very true plus they're expensive, unreliable and moody. I'd definitely try this concept out. Essentially already doing it with self checkout
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Exactly. I go grocery shopping with zero human interaction all the time.
 
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vader said:
Exactly. I go grocery shopping with zero human interaction all the time.
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You ever find yourself responding to that disembodied female voice at the self checkout when she says things like "are you using your own bag?" or "please remove your bags from the bagging area, take your change, and get the f*** out of my store, meatbag!"?
 
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never been called a meatbag yet, but I have been noticing some objectification coming from the machines. "Walking Battery" and "skin sack" I have heard before, like hello I am more than just a heat producing organic object.
 
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LouderVol said:
never been called a meatbag yet, but I have been noticing some objectification coming from the machines. "Walking Battery" and "skin sack" I have heard before, like hello I am more than just a heat producing organic object.
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Exactly, we are more than that! We produce noise and excrement too!
 
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MG1968 said:
You ever find yourself responding to that disembodied female voice at the self checkout when she says things like "are you using your own bag?" or "please remove your bags from the bagging area, take your change, and get the f*** out of my store, meatbag!"?
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I, for one, welcome our benevolent self-checkout overlords.
 
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This concept doesn't even utilize your modern day self checkout systems. You literally scan the item you are buying, put it in your bag and walk out the door.
The self checkout systems today are only useful if you're buying a small amount of items. There is nothing pleasurable or fast about trying to checkout a whole buggy full of groceries at a self checkout register. Simply put self checkout systems are awful.

With regard to this system in Sweden it didn't address if it had any sort of theft prevention system other than the cameras mentioned. What's keeping people from bagging items and walking out the door? On the other hand this system might work in remote areas like they are in. Here in the states(in most areas) there are just too many 24 hour stores.
 
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VOLatile said:
I still need someone to help me every time. Usually the machine assumes I'm stealing something.
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its actually pretty easy to get produce cheaper - just punch in a number with the cheapest price ex grapes 2.99 pound -- punch in celery .99 cents a pound -- got the grapes for .99 cents --- the dimwits at the self checkout are to busy playing on their I phones
 
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VOLatile said:
I still need someone to help me every time. Usually the machine assumes I'm stealing something.
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Same here. By the time I scan my second item it'll tell me wait for a cashier. Profiling imo just cause I'm a hillbilly.
 
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508mikey said:
its actually pretty easy to get produce cheaper - just punch in a number with the cheapest price ex grapes 2.99 pound -- punch in celery .99 cents a pound -- got the grapes for .99 cents --- the dimwits at the self checkout are to busy playing on their I phones
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Okay, but that's actually theft and then the machine wouldn't be wrong when it started getting mad at me.

joevol33 said:
Same here. By the time I scan my second item it'll tell me wait for a cashier. Profiling imo just cause I'm a hillbilly.
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If you'd stop being a hillbilly then your problem would be solved, IMO.
 
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508mikey said:
its actually pretty easy to get produce cheaper - just punch in a number with the cheapest price ex grapes 2.99 pound -- punch in celery .99 cents a pound -- got the grapes for .99 cents --- the dimwits at the self checkout are to busy playing on their I phones
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Yes, it's easy to steal
 
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508mikey said:
its actually pretty easy to get produce cheaper - just punch in a number with the cheapest price ex grapes 2.99 pound -- punch in celery .99 cents a pound -- got the grapes for .99 cents --- the dimwits at the self checkout are to busy playing on their I phones
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Wtf really?
 
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Toujours Pret said:
Wtf really?
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508mikey said:
its actually pretty easy to get produce cheaper - just punch in a number with the cheapest price ex grapes 2.99 pound -- punch in celery .99 cents a pound -- got the grapes for .99 cents --- the dimwits at the self checkout are to busy playing on their I phones
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What store do you shop at? Just curious...
 
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Sweden is one of the most progressive, and, cleanest countries in world. It doesnt surprise me this has taken off.

I dont think this idea would take off in rural Americana. Perhaps up North. we are overly reliant on the auto, and convenience foods. Prepped for us. Our lives are spent on the go. I could see the grocery delivery model work. But you never know.
 
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Of course regular checkout is still faster than self checkout at Wal-mart.
 
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