Re:Inside Amazon Go
by snowwindwaves on Sunday January 21, 2018 @06:23PM
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My mom shopped at the same grocery store for 30 years. Some of the cashiers lived in our neighborhood, and we would see them every time we went grocery shopping and sometimes around the neighborhood. The cashiers knew me by name from when I was a baby grocery shopping with my mom. I suppose it depends on what you call a meaningful discussion, but seeing the cashiers was like catching up with a friend. This was in Ottawa so not a small town, and I'm in my late thirties now.
Good?
I'm an introvert. I don't value random, superficial interactions with people I'll never talk to again. In fact, they cause me anxiety & I dislike them.
I do value the time with a select group of people.
And by reducing the time I spend in the supermarket it allows more of the human interaction I do value.
My social group has a wide assortment of views, from Muslim to Catholic to Athiest, to #TrumpTrain2020 to #NotMyPresident.
I've never witnessed nor heard of people having meaningful discussion with the checkout clerk. I've never seen nor heard of someone, after that brief interaction, saying "You know, you're right. I'll reconsider my position on the person of the opposing political party."
The statement marketplaces may have been true when we in the barter system, but it certainly hasn't been president in modern society for sometime. And I say that as someone who grew up in a town of 2,000 in the 70s and has lived in a large urban area for the last 20.