• OmegaLemmy@discuss.online
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    What kind of inefficent shitscape is your business that adding a new app functionality is easier, cheaper and faster than hiring more, better paid people?

    Hold on, maybe this is a method of appeasing the stock holders to improve trust in them, backing out might cause people to back away

    Wait, this could also be a temporary measure as they hire more people, although the damage has already been done and will show itself next quarter

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    My local grocery store from the Safeway family of stores has Bluetooth beacons that crashed my old phone. Now I turn my phone off as I have to assume these are to track where I am in the store and for how long so they can further target their ads.

    Actually downloading their app is 100% a no from me. I’m moving to local stores wherever possible because I can afford it, and to be honest, the grocers raised their prices so much, only certain items are more expensive bought local.

  • rhombus@sh.itjust.works
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    The answer is never “make service better to attract customers”, it’s always “extract as much value as possible from the ones that remain”. Shitty short term number go up mentality.

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    21 hours ago

    CVS wants me to stop shopping with them.

    I’ll just goto a fucking supermarket. It’s faster. Yes, even with the checkouts.

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        I’ve been looking into the local veggie co-op. You pay for the season and you can pick up a box of veggies once a week, all locally sourced. I’d go to the farmers market, but I’m worried it’ll just be a bunch of people selling marked up veggies they got from the grocery store.

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          Fortunately, at the farmers market, you can usually look up the farmer. Eg, visit once or twice just observing, seeing who gets visited by regulars, Google the farm name to look up details and reviews, etc

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    Or, just maybe, they could adequately staff their stores instead of constantly running skeleton crews. If they were actually sincere with their cries of high theft, more employees on the floor could deter would-be thieves, while also giving them time to help customers when needed and pack out product so the place doesn’t always look like an obstacle course left in the wake of a hurricane, with piles of stuff on the floor blocking half the aisles.

    Any place that requires an app for me to shop at is a hard no for me, much less all the other nonsense they want to include.

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    24 hours ago

    The poll in the article…

    Would you use an app to unlock retail store displays?

    • Yes. If it speeds up shopping, that’s a win for me.

    • No. I don’t need an app to shop, and will just find and employee to unlock it.

    Where’s the option of “no, I didn’t need it as much as I thought I did”

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      @howrar @dantheclamman I needed a replacement garage door remote last week. Bunnings has them locked to the shelf thing. I did bend it a fair amount but couldn’t get the thing off. Found an employee who seemed as pissed off as I was. He didn’t have a key though. So had to disappear for quite some time to find one. It’s a $60 product in a reasonable size pack. Not a $6000 item I can slip in my pocket. Another reason to shop online (I needed that item that day otherwise I would have got it online)

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆@yiffit.net
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    23 hours ago

    The “shit being locked and nobody comes to help when you press the button” bullshit is why I bought some spare keys for the universal barrel locks most stores use. 9 times out of 10, these cabinets are locked with a lock that’s key is just a circular bit with a single tooth.

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    Why the fuck aren’t they just dropping this shit off at my door?

    Why do I need to go into a convenience store when there’s no convenience?

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    A. Bug an employee even where this system is implemented.

    B. If I had no other choice than to use the app: Open the cabinet, take a dozen products, close the cabinet, “decide” against buying some and leave them on an adjacent shelf.

    (Edit) C: just “forget” to close the shelf. I’m not trained to handle their BS system.