Is this the future of retail ?

[upnick]

Hi  All,   

Is this to be the future of retail  just as we are  now used to  online shopping.



World's First Virtual Shopping Store opens in Korea. All the Shelves are in fact LCD Screens. Users Choose their desired items by touching the LCD screen and checkout at the counter in the end to have all their ordered stuff packed in Bags.

[port perran]

Very interesting.
Can't see it happening in my local model shop just yet though!

[OwL]

Well it certainly saves messing about queing at the checkouts.

I don't think it will catch on too much though, people like to see things before they buy.......

You wouldn't buy banana's without checking them first would you!

[MikeDunn]

How does it handle a bunch of people in the same aisle, I wonder ?

Or kids ... ?

Mike

[Pengi]

How does it handle a bunch of people in the same aisle, I wonder ?

Or kids ... ?

Mike

Yes - a kid could run up a huge bill through random tapping of the screens!

[upnick]

How does it handle a bunch of people in the same aisle, I wonder ?

Or kids ... ?

Mike

Yes - a kid could run up a huge bill through random tapping of the screens!

[longbridge]

Lousy Idea, no good if you want to find out how much fat, sugar or salt in in the product, could be a lot of obese Koreans getting around.

No doubt the greedy supermarkets in Oz will adopt the idea as it will save them having shelf packers.

[Newportnobby]

I guess it's no different to those who have their shopping delivered by supermarkets. They can'[t see products like fresh fruit and veg but still rely on someone else to bring it to them
When the assistant in my local store asked if I wanted to use the automatic checkout I told her (a) I needed some cashback and (b) she was doing herself out of a job. She looked at me as if I was from another planet (no comments please)

[longbridge]

I started using those automatic check out thingys a couple of months ago and then asked myself why in the hell am I doing what a checkout chick should be doing ?,  don't know if its the same back home but they have closed so many registers that you have to do it yourself or wait in a mile long cue.

[scotsoft]

I tried those do it yourself tills once - far too much like hard work.

[Sprintex]

Personally I love the self-checkout - much quicker than queuing and you don't have to put up with the barrage of "do you want stamps/mobile top-ups/etc" questions that seem to be standard these days! 


Paul

[Pengi]

Personally I love the self-checkout - much quicker than queuing and you don't have to put up with the barrage of "do you want stamps/mobile top-ups/etc" questions that seem to be standard these days! 


Paul

I like the self-service for a few items  particularly at my local Tesco Express. When I am doing a big shop at the main Tesco, there are often problems with bagging up the items (e.g. when I bring my own bags) and it is infuriating that you need to get assistance if you are getting a refund on your parking ticket.

[MikeDunn]

Whenever I get told 'come & use this self-service one here' I just ask when they're being made redundant ... that shuts them up & has started a few thinking better ! 

[Guy]

Couldn't agree more with you Mike. These self service tills are a cynical move by the big retailers to move the work from their employees (and thus requiring less of them) over to us. If they offered me a discount for doing the supermarket's work for them then I may consider using the self service till. Until that happens (probably more chance of Hell freezing over), I refuse to assist in the loss of jobs. 

[longbridge]

Things must be different in Oz because you either line up for an do it yourself checkout or line up for you do it for me checkout, I think we spend 10% of our lives standing in line like cows going for slaughter