Little Bows On Little Things
World’s First Virtual Shopping Store opens in Korea. All the Shelves are infact LCD Screens. User Choose their desired items by touching the LCD screen and checkout at the counter in the end to have all their ordered stuff packed in Bags.
:o shoplifting would be nonexistent
This is brilliant! Evan says it’s making people lazy but I think it’s smart. It’ll save room from cart shopping, you already have to search the aisle and find it to grab, so just touching it makes it easier, it’ll cut back on shoplifting and it’s overall just a futuristic approach that I find very cool.
An interesting hybrid of current shopping standards and the “behind the counter” dispensing used in the pre- self-service days … though there might be a problem with getting the product information some expect.
it’s so expensive though
it must cost like at least ten times more than just using regular shelves
Also, let’s look at what I suspect is the real reason behind this (companies don’t do things “because they’re cool”, however much we might like to think that).
One of the first things you learn when working in retail as a salesperson is to get merchandise out of the customer’s arms and up to the front counter as quick as possible. This gives them both A.) a sense of obligation to actually buy those things and B.) no visual reference as to how much they’re actually buying. The less the customer thinks about how much they’re buying, the more they will buy.
This effect is going to be insanely pronounced in a store like this. Instead of seeing what you’ve bought in your cart, you just go around buying everything you think you need/want; it reduces the ability of a customer to make value judgements based on what they can/cannot afford (or for those without money issues, what they do/do not want). It will almost invariably make more money for the companies utilizing it in the long run, but it reduces the ability of customers to easily, visually have information on their purchases. Personally, that makes me exceedingly uncomfortable.
