Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo...
by angstrom on Friday February 03, 2017 @11:11PM
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Drive-thu pickup exists, but it's not widespread. Where I grew up in Ohio there's a chain that has had grocery loading since at least the 80s. You drive up, give them a number and they put the groceries in your trunk.
Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo...
by Shivetya on Friday February 03, 2017 @10:31PM
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Oddly I recall drive through quick marts/etc and liquor/beer places all over Ohio. I wonder if there are just laws against it in certain states?
Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo...
by yardie on Saturday February 04, 2017 @10:58AM
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We use to have drive through convenience stores in Florida called the Farm Store. They were useful, but impractical for any big shopping. I just can't see someone trying to hand over a gallon of milk, 4kg, through a car window. Beer, cigarettes and junk food were their forté.
you probably mean change the USA, in France for instance, drive-thru supermarkets exists since at least 5 years [1][2] They now even have some new 24/7 pick up locations, which is a big deal for France where there is no 24/7 stores. There, your food just waits for you in a refrigerated/freezer lock box [3].
I'm actually surprised this is not already a common thing in the USA, which invented drive-thru fast foods 70 years ago.
[1] https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=y&prev...
[2] https://drive.intermarche.com/Carte (look for the icons of a car with the trunk open)
[3] https://drive.intermarche.com/Content/images/prehome/pdv/dri...