If one has spendable cash, then Kroger’s $5 per each Click Check is workable.  
But if that’s once each week, then $20 per month is a chunk out of the less 
fortunate person’s/family's change purse.  Ouch!

-russ


> On Aug 17, 2017, at 10:31 AM, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 
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