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Kroger teams with tech giant to build artificial intelligence lab

The Business Journals|11 minutes ago
Kroger is teaming with a tech giant to develop an artificial intelligence lab aimed at improving the shopper experience.



My shopping experience is fine y'idiots as long as I stay out of your overpriced stores.

KISS ... Keep It Simple Stupid. Put stuff on display. Put prices on it. Put cashiers at checkouts. Simple.

 

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Kroger teams with tech giant to build artificial intelligence lab

The Business Journals|11 minutes ago
Kroger is teaming with a tech giant to develop an artificial intelligence lab aimed at improving the shopper experience.



My shopping experience is fine y'idiots as long as I stay out of your overpriced stores.

KISS ... Keep It Simple Stupid. Put stuff on display. Put prices on it. Put cashiers at checkouts. Simple.

Those things cost money, they'd rather spend millions to figure out where to pile garbage in the middle of the aisle and when to have restockers with pallets full of shit in the middle of the day to 'enhance your shopping experience'.

 

[pete6032]

Hint: pay your employees more so they care about their job.

Those things cost money, they'd rather spend millions to figure out where to pile garbage in the middle of the aisle and when to have restockers with pallets full of shit in the middle of the day to 'enhance your shopping experience'.

Nothing like going into a store on a busy Saturday morning and there are pallets in the middle of the aisles.

 

[Stiff Clamp]

When you have spare money to throw at this it's a sign you're overcharging for the foods.

 

[BoomerD]

Want to improve MY shopping experience? Lower your ficking prices, do away with self-check outs, (or give a 10% discount for me doing YOUR work) and open more checkouts when the store is busy.

 

[nakedfrog]

Fuckin' Kroger.

 

[purbeast0]

Want to improve MY shopping experience? Lower your ficking prices, do away with self-check outs, (or give a 10% discount for me doing YOUR work) and open more checkouts when the store is busy.

No way self checkouts (good ones) are the best thing to happen to stores. It's so much faster than having to wait in line for a cashier. I go to one of the busiest Home Depot's in the country and I can go Saturday morning in the spring where the lines are long as shit but it won't take more than a few minutes because of how efficient their self checkout systems are.

 

[lyk24nik8]

I always try to converse with Marty at Stop&Shop

 

[VashHT]

Other customers are the main thing that ruin my shopping experience so don't know how they fix that. People blocking the aisle with their carts, walking like 2mph when you're stuck behind them, rushing in front of you with a full cart when you have like 5 items and it's the only open register, etc..

 

[nakedfrog]

No way self checkouts (good ones) are the best thing to happen to stores. It's so much faster than having to wait in line for a cashier. I go to one of the busiest Home Depot's in the country and I can go Saturday morning in the spring where the lines are long as shit but it won't take more than a few minutes because of how efficient their self checkout systems are.

Faster, easier, no social interaction, what's not to like?
They were kind of a shitshow at first ("unexpected item in the bagging area") but I've rarely had issues in the past few years.

 

[nisryus]

I wish the self checkouts have more space. I always have around 10 items but some times they are bulky and just can't fit them all into the bagging area. If I tried to move them back into the cart so I have space to continue, the checkout would put up an alert and stop working, until I could get someone to 'fix' the issue.. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

 

[Captante]

I always try to converse with Marty at Stop&Shop

I try to stand in its path so I can get hit then pretend to be gravely injured, fall on the floor and flop like a fish.

 

[pete6032]

No way self checkouts (good ones) are the best thing to happen to stores. It's so much faster than having to wait in line for a cashier. I go to one of the busiest Home Depot's in the country and I can go Saturday morning in the spring where the lines are long as shit but it won't take more than a few minutes because of how efficient their self checkout systems are.

Ring up that container of caviar as a red delicious apple.

 

[Exterous]

Ring up that container of caviar as a red delicious apple.

We loved Scan Bag Go but, supposedly, that is one of the reasons they did away with it. Also I guess a lot of the stores hated the hardware and software as it would break frequently.

 

[Captante]

The new self-checkout at Stop & Shop was apparently designed by an incompetent... lines were consistently shorter when they just had regular checkout lines being used as self-serve.

Its fine if you have 5-6 things maximum but they left so little room for bagging, a big-shop is a total PITA to deal with.

 

[Red Squirrel]

All fun and games until an employee forgets to swap the corona sterilizer chip with the customer welcome chip before store opening, and it's going around spraying everyone with sanitizer. "Kill 99.9% of everything. Terminate! " *sprays everywhere*

 

[pete6032]

We loved Scan Bag Go but, supposedly, that is one of the reasons they did away with it. Also I guess a lot of the stores hated the hardware and software as it would break frequently.

Seems like the self checkout options come and go here in Chicago. Some stores put them in and then take them out a year later. Not sure how much that has to do with theft versus performance of the scanners. I'm always amazed that downtown Chicago drugstores that have self checkout. Wonder what percentage of their inventory is stolen.