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Most people have no idea how much shopping used to be a bad experience, and how much retail has gotten better over the last ~150 years Mail-order and department stores had to be invented, and they were a big improvement on the general store
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Apparently Walgreens is testing, in Chicago, a “new” concept: almost all goods (save two aisles of “essentials”) behind a barrier, passed over it to the customer in response to an order entered on a kiosk. This is almost a return to the retail experience of the late 1800s.
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Many improvements: • Easier to see selection (it's on display, not behind a counter) • Faster because you rely less on the clerk • Transparent pricing → confidence without haggling • Lower prices (by cutting out middlemen) • Return policies • Etc.
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What was the improvement in experience? I see mostly ability to service bigger number of customers in smaller ammount of time and less people, but the experience? Idk. I still enjoy buying meat at butchers, bread at baker's, vegetables at the market stall?
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If governments refuse to act against systematic looting of retail stores by shop lifters then the stores either need to protect themselves or shut down.
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I thought that too but it's compounded by another force. Employee hand books apparently forbid employees from intervening. Call the police after, if at all. Reason: lawsuits when such actions go wrong. Theft is a lesser loss right up until it's not. Litiginous culture.
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I feel like this is mostly a trust and/or cost of living thing? Like here in the UK (which isn't exactly doing *great* on either of those) we're very much moving in the opposite direction of that with self-checkouts, Amazon's "just walk out" type stores, etc.
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What was the improvement in experience? I see mostly ability to service bigger number of customers in smaller ammount of time and less people, but the experience? Idk. I still enjoy buying meat at butchers, bread at baker's, vegetables at the market stall?
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