CVS Is Turning Locked Shelves Into an Excuse to Make You Download Its App
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For this to work, you need to download and install the app and sign up for CVS’ loyalty program. In the store, you need to be logged into the app and connected to the store’s Wi-Fi, and have Bluetooth turned on.
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Haha. I'll never go there again. Too bad there's so many dumbasses who will just be fine with this.
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What I'm always stunned by, who is fucking stupid enough to shop there?! I go to the pharmacy, get my shit, leave. Even when I had a fat income, I still wouldn't pay those prices.
Locally, the Winn Dixie is shutting down because the new Publix out competed them. For those not in the know, both are very nice groceries, with Publix a little nicer and way costlier. FFS, we have an Aldi (along with 5 other cheaper groceries) and it's never as busy as the expensive stores.
Hit a couple of big box stores waiting on my wife. Never go in those places anymore, especially since inflation went nuts the last couple of years. People pay for that crap?! At Pets Mart a chunk of driftwood is between $20 and $50! Y'all, we're in Florida and paying for driftwood and sand. The mind boggles.
tl:dr; American consumers are idiots and I'm not going to hear the whining about high retail prices.
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They also tried to make refrigerators into billboards, blocking visibility of anything inside. They were all broken within a matter of months, then replaced again with glass doors sometime later. These people are morons.
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Just putting the products in a locked case is enough to get me to shop elsewhere.
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How about I just shop somewhere else?
There's not a good reason to do this.
Any money saved by preventing thefts in our dying world will be lost from the customers who don't want to be treated like thieves.
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Like the shoplifters won't make bogus accounts? Wtf are we even doing here?
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Making sales makes line go up.
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I'm waiting for the ultimate reductive customer experience. These drug stores will eventually block off access to the shelves and aisles entirely. Instead, the front point-of-sale area and places where people used to wait in line with their purchases will be turned into a new blocked off large vestibule with floor to ceiling transparent glass. In there (where customers can access) will be kiosks which can control tele-presence robots that will let customers "walk the aisle" to look at product on shelves:
If you want to make a purchase, you press a button on the kiosk and pay for it, then a human worker inside will fetch the item off the shelf for you and drop it in a transaction drawer where you pick up your item:
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I guess I am starting to be okay with "leaning in" and taking advantage off my "old guy" (false) technical ineptitude and will just pretend to shuffle up to a store employee and ask them to open those cabinets for me
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then a human worker inside will fetch the item off the shelf for you
Soon enough that robot will complete that whole transaction and the humans will not be needed
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Y'alls Aldi's must be different. Here, they are small stores with a mostly random inventory where it is common to see only one cashier and a checkout line stretching across the store.
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Yeah, another reason not to go there. Unfortunately no impact since I already don’t.
Nearby one is 24h so I occasionally go there when everything else is closed, but that’s the only advantage they have
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The Germans know how to run an efficient grocery, I hope Aldi, trader joes and lidl destroy "thin margin" US parasites.
JFC fuck Kroger, fuck Safeway fuck expensive shit
Food is the common man necessity and it should be priced as such. We surely as fuck subsidize it, but the parasitic class still charges "market"
