A few blocks from me there is a small Kroger store…months ago they cut a hole in the brick to make an opening for their Click to shop system where we order from our phone App what we want while at work, on the beach, wherever….when time permits we drive to the designated parking spots and notify Kroger we are ready for the delivery. Two employees bring out with a wagon, one heads to the driver to go over he list and receive payment while the other employee is loading the bags into the vehicle…
Wonder if folks will like this? Will it be used? Tuesday of this week one of the managers of the store was in, saying that Monday they had 128 people drive up and receive their products…they have had 5 employees quit in the last week, the workload is so heavy it’s not worth it so they leave….. It was this managers understanding that Walmart in New Albany, which also had this service, had just stopped offering as they also had no idea the magnitude of the reception and they were not prepared. My reason for sharing this with a Mac group is the face Technology is taking in our society….there is a massive acceptance to anything that is going to make our lives easier…thus the success of Apple as every product from the Mac in 1984 to the iPod with our music, the iPhone, and all the forthcoming goodies are successful because they do change the way we live…. It’s it a wonderful thing, what person working a long shift wants to spend 30 minutes walking the isle of a grocery before heading home to feed the munchkins.. It’s also a lightbulb moment for those of you who can come up with a newer and better method of fulfilling human’s need for simplicity. This week, on Apple News, I read of two brothers that with 7 lines of code made themselves Billionaires…..7…..just 7. Their genius made joining the complicated and costly digital payment system available to everyone with almost no cost…..only 7 lies of code and you join an elite club…. John _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list Posting address: [email protected] Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
