Will You Ever Change Your Shopping Ways?
You can now find driverless delivery 'robots' transporting goods around places like California, Texas, and Arizona. They've been carrying a variety of grocery and food items, documents, packages, and more.
In Arizona, Kroger and Nuro have recently embarked together on their own journey to pilot robot grocery delivering services.
A great deal of people today still prefer to travel to the grocery store to pick up their goods and plenty of companies are working to try and change that.
From well-known corporations to new startups, a wide variety of people are hoping to change the way that people go about shopping for their groceries. Whether that's ordering them online or having them delivered to them by a self-driving vehicle, there are many changes that are transforming the way that we go about getting our food.
There are a number of different delivery bots being tested and currently on the streets, bringing goods to those who order them. You can find them also being used in various settings, from transporting food on public streets to bringing supplies throughout a hospital or carrying goods around a hotel etc. This technology will continue to become much more prevalent in our society as more people look for cost-efficient and convenient ways to get people the goods that they need or desire.
Starship Technologies spokesman (Starship robot seen above) Henry Harris-Burland, has suggested that they are hoping these bots can play a critical role in addressing real problems. Namely, that by offering alternative transportation solutions that they can get more cars and vans off the road. As well, that they can increase options for delivering to handicapped or elderly individuals who might have more difficulty getting around than others.
Will the effort eventually pay off, might a growing number of people some day adapt their grocery shopping habits and instead opt to order online and receive their food delivered right to their doorstep? For now, most of us still prefer to make our food choices at grocery markets that are brick-and-mortar locations but that could change some day.
Some regions in California, such as San Francisco, have sought to ban these sorts of delivery robots, and because of that those behind such projects have suggested that they plan to move elsewhere; to go somewhere more welcoming.
According to a previous survey from Temando, which included responses from at least 1,000 US consumers, it's estimated that there are a growing number of individuals today who want more delivery options for getting their groceries. The survey showed that roughly 77 percent of consumers want more delivery options such as guaranteed weekend shipping or after-hours shipping; many would be willing to pay a premium for such options. However, other surveys such as previous Gallup polls, indicate that about 80 percent or more of U.S. adults would prefer to go into the grocery store themselves to pick out their food and that they never order their food online.
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pic 1 Korger via wcpo
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pic3 - homdor
This only works in good neighborhoods.
And, as things are getting worse, this could quickly become a costly venture.
Hey, look, someone sent us a bunch of electronic components and motors.
people have tried to steal from them unsuccessfully ..some of the bots have traveled tens of thousands of miles without anyone making an attempt to steal from them though. The device is equipped with alarms and cameras, so they might not get away with it as easy as they suspect 😂
It's a cool idea! For me, though, there's some things I just have to pick up and look at before I'm comfortable buying. Especially produce.
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What if it gets your shopping wrong, can you send it back? haha
let's hope so😂😂
I have bought online and I bought and bricks and mortar stores. But I'm unusual and that I prefer to buy most of my items including food from estate sales. It's less expensive than Walmart or online. But yes I know of grocery stores offering online service. Thanks my friend for a good article.
food from an estate sale? that's interesting..!
I change my shopping with the change in technology.
It's cute to see those starship delivery robots running around my town :)
Very enjoyable, of course if me are in the California, Texas and Arizona region. It's no longer complicated to shop, because there is already a delivery of a 'robot' delivery of goods without a driver, while watching television, we just order it online and wait a few minutes! the food we ordered comes straight to. this is a good program because it can reduce the burden of turning back to the market. I am proud of the company that created this 'robot'. But in our place in (Indonesia) there are no programs like this.
technology change the way of the Shopping
It is a breakthrough in terms of technology and insurance if it can work but some people will continue going to the stores to buy and choose their own merchandise, maybe it is very good for housewives who have to stay with children and they would like to have the purchase brought to the door of the house
Always with good information friend, greetings!
That 80% (prefer to go themselves) will decline as their brain gets used to the concept of having robots deliver stuff to them. I would love for people to divert their thought power to what they would do with an extra hour a week (not shopping) to improve their life or that of someone else.
To make this truly local, it would be great to see a local manufacturing/assembling business dealing these robots to the local businesses who distribute local goods.
Imagine robots helping contribute to the 100 mile diet?