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MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Honestly, I could see this model work for households who rely on large, predictable, repeat orders (i.e. families with small children), but I don’t think it’ll ever replace normal grocery stores, because a lot of profit is generated by people just browsing the aisles and buying stuff they didn’t even know they wanted, and online stores are still fairly bad at replicating that experience.

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Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I agree that online stores don’t do it as well as in person ones (being committed to being in a specific place where you buy stuff I think makes people engage more intentionally and consider items in front of them), but I wish more people talked about how shitty seo is one of the ways online stores do this so I wanna take this opportunity to share that idea

Instead of having to walk to the back corner of the store to get milk or Christmas decorations, you have to scroll past a million items that aren’t quite what you’re looking for but are closely related by keywords. And in this metaphor the store can be infinitely big.

I hate shopping online 🥹

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PineRune@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
For prepackaged and bulk it would work good, but I’m not buying fresh produce sight unseen.

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- MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  100% my biggest pet peeve when ordering grocery delivery, and no robot will ever be able to solve that.
  
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  - OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    and no robot will ever be able to solve that.
    
    Well, they theoretically could, but they never would, because the robots are owned by the company and the company wants to screw you over.
    
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    MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    Well, they theoretically could
    
    I don’t see how. No robot could ever imitate your preferences for produce selection 100% accurately. I don’t think even any human could (unless you provide them with an unlimited budget).
    
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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
yeah, part of successful grocery management is knowing how often to rearrange the store that your customers don’t hate you for moving the damn kefir. my bagels need kefir!

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