Posted on 04/07/2017 10:23:08 PM PDT by PittsburghAfterDark
What I’m saying is that you can, today, print all the parts for a toaster oven and put it together. Each part has to be made separately, just like you put a hamburger together from separate parts, whether you make one conventionally or get one 3D printed.
You go right on thinking that... You can 3D print the parts for a burger today, you can 3D print the parts for a toaster oven. There is some assembly required.
If you are thinking a 3D printer will print a fully assembled item ready to use out of the fabrication area, no, it can’t do that yet. But it’s not any century off either - it’s likely to be sometime in the next two decades.
The manager probably thought about what you said and understood it much, much later that day. May have realized just how idiotic and detached he was sounding. He would never admit it to you though. This is what many of today’s managers are told to do, extol the ‘amazing’ skills and virtues of the new system. The tail wags the new dog.
Bought my stove and refrigerator from them a few years ago.
The next business I see changing very quickly and not that long from now is all types of parts stores.
Why have a huge inventory of parts you might never sell? Very soon many parts will be able to quickly and cheaply printed as needed. Your local parts retailer will always have the replacement part you need.
I bet the cartridges cost a fortune!
We tried to deal with them on a tv. We tried to dicker over the price which was some $700 cheaper on line. They told us they could not, would not match on line pricing because...well they had overhead.
Ok...good point. Except the place we bought it was a brick and mortar in Joisey...had it shipped to us and paid no sales tax.
Never went back.
Best Buy has price-matched Amazon for me, many times.
So I buy in-store whenever they have what I want.
I very much want them to stay afloat, as I’m still grieving the loss of my beloved Circuit City.
/loves playing with tech stuff
At least this outfit is going out of business with some notice. A big electronic retailer in my locality gave no warning at all when they closed up shop back in the 1980’s. This was when rear projection big screens were all the rage. One poor soul I know of went in on the last Friday and paid $2400 cash to have his widescreen delivered the next day. When the place closed that Friday, the employees were told the gig was up and given their final paychecks, which bounced. The guy never got his widescreen and became just another creditor at the back of the line. Turned out the company had stopped paying rent and utilities three months prior, and also had stopped making payments on their floorplan arrangement (it’s a retail thing, look it up).
For those final three months all the revenue generated went in somebody’s pocket, with zero outflow aside from what had to be paid to keep people working there, and like I said their last paycheck was worthless. Now that is ruthless.
The only time I shopped in an HH Greg store I noticed the prices were extremely high, much higher than Best Buy & other stores.
I remember thinking, bottled water?! Nobody will buy that. Same with bottled tea. Boy, was I wrong.
If Walmart had proper foresight they would have never let Amazon get a foothold. They screwed up completely.
We bought our appliances there in the Fall & had good service. A lot of people will be losing jobs.
We’ve got to move these refrigerators. We’ve got to move these color TVs.
Somehow, grilling a burger to perfection has at least slightly more appeal to me than sitting down at a computer and clicking “print burger”.
Maybe it’s just me though. I also suspect the lettuce and tomato might be somewhat wilted in the burger printout. Might detract from the taste.
Just a tad.
Also, a burger squirtout seems a bit too close to “soylent green” territory if you ask me. But then again I’m a bit of a purist when it comes to protein sources.
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