Thanks Tony,
As a Councillor in the Inner West of Sydney, we are grappling with this
issue and what to specify in our planning instruments.
The biggest impact, I believe on supermarkets will be the demise of the
private motor vehicle. We are already seeing a decline in drivers
licenses and motor vehicle ownership.
We recently had a debate in the council chamber about shopping trolleys
on our streets. In the course of the debate another councillor confirmed
my anecdotal evidence that more people are walking to the shops. The
shopping mall had told this long time councillor, some time ago that 50%
of their customers were arriving and leaving on foot. We adopted an
impounding policy. This policy is not to discourage shoppers from
wheeling their purchases home but to encourage the supermarkets to do
the right thing by their customers and collect the trolleys or provide
other means for their customers to get their purchases home.
To put this in context, a sign at the exit of shopping mall to a bus
stop states that the shopping trolley wheels lock at that point. That is
particularly rude of the supermarket in the context that they have
encouraged the shopper to fill their trolley, collected the money as the
shopper filled their trolley with the purchases and then left the
shopper stranded.
One perspective that was presented was that the pedestrians should bring
their own trolleys - I would put to drivers - how many manage to bring
their own bags?
The interesting news here for Link is the potential role here for
automated vehicles.
More at https://perambuler.ramin.com.au/2019/05/shopping-trolleys_23.html
Linkers may also be interested in AURIN maps on Access to shopping in
the Inner West. AURIN lets you plot any area) more at
https://perambuler.ramin.com.au/2019/06/alga-nga-2019-aurin-data.html
Marghanita
On 21/6/19 9:43 am, Antony Broughton Barry wrote:
https://thenewdaily.com.au/life/tech/2019/06/20/supermarket-future-changes-technology/
Antony Barry
antonybbarry at me.com
Mob +61 433 652 400
_______________________________________________
Link mailing list
Link@mailman.anu.edu.au
http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
--
Marghanita da Cruz
Telephone: 0414-869202
Email: marghan...@ramin.com.au
Website: http://ramin.com.au
_______________________________________________
Link mailing list
Link@mailman.anu.edu.au
http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
