Amazon Grocery Stores

[SkyRider]

http://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-grocery-store-concept-to-open-in-seattle-in-early-2017-1480959119

This is weird. The inventor of the virtual store is now planning to open up to 2,000 brick and mortar stores. I think this is a huge mistake by Amazon. They are leaving their virtual comfort zone.

 

[elwoodinontario]

Amazon has yet to make a profit. They may have decided that making money is worth trying.

 

[explorerzip]

It will be interesting to watch and see what happens and if they can gain any traction against Wal-Mart or grocery stores like No Frills, Loblaws, etc. I would shop there if I can also pick up my online orders at the store.

 

[Ceiling Cat]

If they set up the consumers will benefit from the price war. Target high tailed it out of Canada because they saw no reasonable chance to make a profit in the near or medium term.

 

[elwoodinontario]

If they set up the consumers will benefit from the price war. Target high tailed it out of Canada because they saw no reasonable chance to make a profit in the near or medium term.

Target failed because they fucked everything up from the get-go. They rolled out new, untested systems for everything from registers to their distribution network. From the articles I've read on the subject, it's like they planned on failing from the outset.
http://http://fortune.com/2015/01/15/target-canada-fail/

 

[Ceiling Cat]

Their biggest mistake was to buy the old Zellers locations.

 

[Jubee]

This is going to be HUGE and a brilliant move by Jess Bezos, who I loathe. He's stilll an utter, piece of shit, but this is brilliant.

 

[SkyRider]

Any way you would be able to paste the story for us? I don't have a WSJ subscription. Thank you

Somebody please help us. I don't have a WSJ subscription either. I just like the headline. I didn't actually read the article.

 

[SkyRider]

Maybe we can pick up online purchases in the store. They seem to always deliver the stuff when I'm not home or I'm in the shower.

 

[Jubee]

Any way you would be able to paste the story for us? I don't have a WSJ subscription. Thank you

Just do a search on Google, you'll find the story on various sites.


best one -> https://lmgtfy.com/?q=amazon+grocery+store



http://fortune.com/2016/12/05/amazon-go-store/

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/repo...first-physical-grocery-store/article33203792/

http://news.morningstar.com/all/dow...concept-to-open-in-seattle-in-early-2017.aspx

http://qz.com/853205/amazon-amzn-la...-checkout-lines-and-millions-of-cashier-jobs/

 

[Occasionally]

Target failed because they fucked everything up from the get-go. They rolled out new, untested systems for everything from registers to their distribution network. From the articles I've read on the subject, it's like they planned on failing from the outset.
http://http://fortune.com/2015/01/15/target-canada-fail/

Their biggest mistake was to buy the old Zellers locations.

I don't think Target did one thing right.... although whomever was in charge of renovating the stores did a great job. The stores were slick. It's amazing what new paint, new fixtures and a Starbucks will do. Zellers stores were similarly red and white. But Target stores just seemed much better looking.

A big problem they had was that they cheaped out and hired tons of young inexperienced people at their new head office. The company is trying to roll out 100+ stores, so you'd think they try hiring as many experienced vets to guide the ship. Instead, they had mostly people in their 20s, plus some US people who came over.

Another problem was leadership. This Tony Fisher guy has a revolving door resume at Target. One of those guys who got tapped on the shoulder and never had a job more than 12 months. He also had zero experience working in the Canadian market too. Yet somehow he's chosen to lead the Canadian region? Yeah, that sure makes sense.

 

[Jubee]

McDonald's is heading this way, create your own burger at a kiosk and now the drinks are poured at the push of s button - cup drops, cup gets filled.
I am curious how much head office calculated it would save them in wages and how much they would gain in sales for this time saving feature.

 

[explorerzip]

McDonald's is heading this way, create your own burger at a kiosk and now the drinks are poured at the push of s button - cup drops, cup gets filled.
I am curious how much head office calculated it would save them in wages and how much they would gain in sales for this time saving feature.

I'm also curious how much money and time they invested into developing the hardware and software for these kiosks and what the pay back is like.

 

[Terminator2000]

McDonald's is heading this way, create your own burger at a kiosk and now the drinks are poured at the push of s button - cup drops, cup gets filled.
I am curious how much head office calculated it would save them in wages and how much they would gain in sales for this time saving feature.

LOL mcdonalds attempt at gettint rid of the cashiers and clerks aka the middleman and trying to save a few bucks. see how that works out.

metro and canadian tire is still trying to eliminate cashiers completely with automated cashout registers where u self serve and cash ur own stuff out. not working out so well cinsidering theyre still employing cashiers..theyre trying to weed out the cashiers aka the middleman too and save a few bucks on not employing so many cashiers. greedy fucks.

what are they going to try to do next? get automated grocery clerks to put the merchandise on the shelves? Make the customers go to the backroom themselves and get their own merchandise instead of grocery clerks putting all the mervhandise on shelves in the store? Sure. Thatll eliminate the need for grocery clerks.

 

[elwoodinontario]

Their biggest mistake was to buy the old Zellers locations.

The Zellers locations weren't the problem, but how they opened them Target wanted a big splash, so they had all this leased real estate sitting empty so they could open them all at once Wal-mart, when they moved in, renovated one location at a time, from acquisition to opening, then moved on to the next.

I don't think Target did one thing right.... although whomever was in charge of renovating the stores did a great job. The stores were slick. It's amazing what new paint, new fixtures and a Starbucks will do. Zellers stores were similarly red and white. But Target stores just seemed much better looking.

A big problem they had was that they cheaped out and hired tons of young inexperienced people at their new head office. The company is trying to roll out 100+ stores, so you'd think they try hiring as many experienced vets to guide the ship. Instead, they had mostly people in their 20s, plus some US people who came over.

Another problem was leadership. This Tony Fisher guy has a revolving door resume at Target. One of those guys who got tapped on the shoulder and never had a job more than 12 months. He also had zero experience working in the Canadian market too. Yet somehow he's chosen to lead the Canadian region? Yeah, that sure makes sense.

From what i've read, logistics was one of the biggest nails in their coffin. For every Distribution Centre they had, there were 2 or 3 other leased warehouses filled with merchandise, while the store shelves stood empty, because their un-tested software couldn't determine what went where. As for empty shelves, store managers were instructed to leave them empty, rather than rearranging merchandise to fill them.