“Target, now has drive up pickup spots for items people ordered on line and eliminates the need to go into the store. That concept will be used by fast food stores. If Target’s dumb management team can make that a success, so can any other company,”
This of a grocery store like a warehouse. All lights out except for a couple of people who need to reconcile manifests and take care of problems. You go on your cell phone, the shopping list comes up. You select your items, confirm it and pay for it. You drive to the pickup spot and through a portal in the building your groceries come out, neatly packed. Meanwhile inside everything is robotic.
A grocery store like a warehouse. All lights out except for a couple of people who need to reconcile manifests and take care of problems. You go on your cell phone, the shopping list comes up. You select your items, confirm it and pay for it. You drive to the pickup spot and through a portal in the building your groceries come out, neatly packed. Meanwhile inside everything is robotic.
Even in our burg, Safeway and a good independent, let you fax or email an order and pay on line for or charge to the Independent. Then if the order is over $100, the delivery is free. Under $100, you pay a 5$ delivery fee.
The other alternative that a lot of retired people are now using and Dincs are using.