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Post by bryan on Jul 6, 2022 20:29:15 GMT
Has anyone used Amazon Fresh?
I went to their Wembley store, wandered around, picked stuff up/put it back, picked my dinner and then walked out with a bag of shopping, and 3 hours later I have not been charged! Is that normal, it feels like shoplifting!!
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Post by ChrisM on Jul 6, 2022 21:39:36 GMT
No idea where my nearest Amazon Fresh store is, and not sure I'd deviate from my usual places either
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Post by bryan on Jul 6, 2022 22:08:12 GMT
Well, the food was very tasty, reasonably priced and 100% accurate for the bill which came through a few minutes ago, very impressed at the tech and coping with my indecisive meander through the store!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2022 22:29:48 GMT
I can see it happening more and more in the future, getting the customer on side and motivating loyalty etc.
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Post by Martin on Jul 7, 2022 5:12:33 GMT
I’ve not visited one yet, but will do when I next have the opportunity. We look after the warehouse that supplies their stores.
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Post by humphreythepug on Jul 7, 2022 7:04:37 GMT
Looks like the UK ones are all around Central London, so no, not used one.
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Post by PetrolEd on Jul 7, 2022 8:10:01 GMT
Never even seen one, sounds like great tech but just think of the data capture. The supermarkets do need new competition to keep them fresh.
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Post by bryan on Jul 7, 2022 12:45:49 GMT
Well they know I like cheese n onion crisps and the lemongrass chicken with endame was very tasty, and I spend too much time choosing!
Only problem is, it is a little harder to mentally tally up costs when they are in a paper bag you can't see
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Post by PG on Jul 7, 2022 14:54:01 GMT
Unlikely that we'll get Amazon stores near us. If they know what you've got in your bag, then every item must have some sort of RFID on it. That can't be cheap? I'm sure some bright spark will soon work out a way to hack the RFID or even move it onto more expensive stuff. People are very inventive.
For the past two years I've been doing the self-scanning as you walk around in Sainsbury and that strikes me as a good solution - no unloading and then loading at the checkout; you can see what you're spending as you go round; you can pack directly into the correct / desired bags in your trolley.
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Post by bryan on Jul 7, 2022 15:52:30 GMT
From what I can tell there is nothing on the items out of the norm - the bottle of water and Yorkie look identical to other shops for example - it is witchcraft I tells ya!
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Post by Martin on Jul 7, 2022 16:07:55 GMT
Unlikely that we'll get Amazon stores near us. If they know what you've got in your bag, then every item must have some sort of RFID on it. That can't be cheap? I'm sure some bright spark will soon work out a way to hack the RFID or even move it onto more expensive stuff. People are very inventive. For the past two years I've been doing the self-scanning as you walk around in Sainsbury and that strikes me as a good solution - no unloading and then loading at the checkout; you can see what you're spending as you go round; you can pack directly into the correct / desired bags in your trolley. They use (a lot of) scanners, so it's reading the barcode rather than RFID. Their system can tell when you pick something up and whether it goes into the trolley/basket or back on the shelf, so it's item level rather than a bulk scan when you exit the shop. Barcode scanning technology has come on a long way, the latest tech can do some really impressive stuff, including reading pretty damaged barcodes. Without getting too geeky, the latest kit uses camera technology and can read both 1D and 2D barcodes at rates in excess to 1500 scans per second. I've got a Cognex cameras in a number of my sites on the bays, move a pallet off the back of a vehicle and it scans the pallet label on every box at MHE speed. Because they use a camera, the same scanners can do other things as well such as checking the cube fill of a box before it moves on to final packing/labelling |
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Post by rodge on Jul 7, 2022 18:57:49 GMT
I’ve only used Amazon for digital content since moving from California. I’ve heard so many horror stories about things not being delivered and waiting weeks for items that are stuck in customs because of brexit that anything ordered fresh would have gone to seed and started a family by the time it arrived.
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Post by Alex on Jul 7, 2022 21:17:20 GMT
I use Amazon purely as a research tool to find what I want before doing all I can to buy it elsewhere (often the same price or cheaper - the days of Amazon being a low price retailer are long gone). My wife on the other hand buys almost everything from them and that does at least give me access to Amazon prime which occasionally has some good content. (The only annoyance being how often they charge extra for shows you want to watch or for the last movie in a trilogy)
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Post by racingteatray on Jul 8, 2022 15:57:10 GMT
No. We are close to a big Sainsburys, which is also next to my gym.
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