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From: Axil Axil <janap...@gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2017 4:34 PM
To: vortex-l
Subject: Re: [Vo]:People are worried: Amazon will replace Whole Foods workers
with robots
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Amazon is working on optimizing online shopping.
On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 4:26 PM, Jones Beene
<jone...@pacbell.net<mailto:jone...@pacbell.net>> wrote:
If replacing workers with robots was Amazon's main angle, they would have been
better off going for Safeway or that type of mass merchant. why? ...putting
cans of soup on a shelf seems like a much easier challenge to robotize than
picking out the nicest veggies.
I think Amazon's main angle, or one of them, is to have a lot of places where
well-heeled shoppers can be counted on to be there a couple of times a week...
allowing them to order (via mobile phone) and in many cases pickup their Amazon
goods when they are grocery shopping and without sending a delivery truck out.
Delivery is the last big cost factor to address. Amazon Prime has helped but
they can make more on the entertainment, if they can shift the some delivery
cost back a less costly avenue.
Amazon and Walmart are trying to maximize every little part of the retail
transaction but in the end, my money would be on Amazon as their online
capability is so huge.
Axil Axil wrote:
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