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Re:Americans, it turns out, would rather visit a store than ... by fossuser on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @12:25PM (#23325662)
I would hope that grocery stores become warehouses and the only people allowed in are delivery.

You could redesign the entire stores to optimize for this which could reduce the likeliness of damaged goods.

Amazon would be in a good position to do this (the Whole Foods near me already has part of it set aside for something like this).

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Re:Americans, it turns out, would rather visit a store than ... by wool_gather on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @06:44PM (#23331042)
This would be sort of funny, since many operated like this in the (not recent) past. Customers picking their own products off open shelves was an innovation at one point (and it was greeted by some people with similar disdain as our current self-checkout lines).
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Re:Americans, it turns out, would rather visit a store than ... by twic on Thursday May 28, 2020 @03:55AM (#23334661)
Where online shopping reaches sufficient scale, that happens:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_store

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Re:Americans, it turns out, would rather visit a store than ... by philwelch on Thursday May 28, 2020 @01:20PM (#23339910)
Amazon Fresh works this way already.
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