That was fascinating. There was a grocery store with a similar set up in the 1930's. It looked automatic until you saw the people running around behind the walls.
On the other hand, I wrote a paper asking if we could have something like that again, and had to stop it because every industry is working towards that idea. It went from dish cleaning to pizza delivery. I could see a mall food court turn into an automated system.
When I mentioned it to an operations guy at a big theme park he laughed and said it didn't compensate for insane guests. That's the big problem. When you have 50,000 people, 500 of them will be assholes of some kind.
The problem is with any vending machine setup in the west you know that shit's going to be broken into within five seconds which is a shame really because I think some automated stuff is pretty fun which might seem odd but the Japanese vending machines are a great example of this.
In Japan they have a shit ton of weird vending machines that have all sorts stored in them but what's strange about them is the fact that they work and aren't always gimmicky. To have a shot at anything like this in the west you'd probably have to secure the fuck out of these things but even then some retards would probably use explosives on it and steal it because we can't have nice things on public streets.
There's no such thing as an unstaffed supermarket.
I'm not sure why no one has made a store sized vending machine. The technology is there (and has been for a while).
That was fascinating. There was a grocery store with a similar set up in the 1930's. It looked automatic until you saw the people running around behind the walls.
On the other hand, I wrote a paper asking if we could have something like that again, and had to stop it because every industry is working towards that idea. It went from dish cleaning to pizza delivery. I could see a mall food court turn into an automated system.
When I mentioned it to an operations guy at a big theme park he laughed and said it didn't compensate for insane guests. That's the big problem. When you have 50,000 people, 500 of them will be assholes of some kind.
Edit: the grocery store was Keedoozle.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/58570/remembering-keedoozle-americas-first-fully-automated-grocery-store
That is interesting. I guess the sushi belt restaurants in Japan are sort of spiritual successors.
The problem is with any vending machine setup in the west you know that shit's going to be broken into within five seconds which is a shame really because I think some automated stuff is pretty fun which might seem odd but the Japanese vending machines are a great example of this.
In Japan they have a shit ton of weird vending machines that have all sorts stored in them but what's strange about them is the fact that they work and aren't always gimmicky. To have a shot at anything like this in the west you'd probably have to secure the fuck out of these things but even then some retards would probably use explosives on it and steal it because we can't have nice things on public streets.
God help us
We have such systems in singapore but its not a full supermarket and you can still go in the normal way
Do you have a link?
https://www.fairprice.com.sg/go-digital-in-stores/shop-easy-shop-smart-with-scan-and-go/
This is what we use here.