Re:Americans are poorly served by their grocery stores
by robonerd on Friday June 03, 2022 @05:37PM
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Or the people who have smartphones and are sick of it and pine for the old ways, but feel compelled to keep one by society increasingly expects that everybody have one and capriciously install invasive apps on it, even for things like buying groceries!
Re:Americans are poorly served by their grocery stores
by astrange on Friday June 03, 2022 @10:16PM
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What's invasive about a grocery store app? Seems less invasive than going to the store - they could always record you there and they certainly know what you buy.
Re:Americans are poorly served by their grocery stores
by robonerd on Friday June 03, 2022 @10:25PM
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If the app wasn't spyware, they wouldn't be so keen on getting me to use it instead of using a web page.
Re:Americans are poorly served by their grocery stores
by astrange on Friday June 03, 2022 @10:33PM
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Nobody wants to use a grocery store web page on their phone, and nobody wants to use a computer instead of their phone.
Re:Americans are poorly served by their grocery stores
by robonerd on Friday June 03, 2022 @10:52PM
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Web pages work just fine on phones, except companies are suspiciously forceful with their recommendations that you use their app instead. Don't pretend Reddit isn't doing this; others do as well.
Re:Americans are poorly served by their grocery stores
by OJFord on Saturday June 04, 2022 @10:40PM
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Are you kidding? I frequently stop what I'm already doing on my phone in frustration, and get out a laptop or turn on a computer to do it in a proper browser/screen/keyboard instead of an app/mobile browser.
Re:Americans are poorly served by their grocery stores
by AmericanChopper on Friday June 03, 2022 @05:30PM
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> What about all the poor people without smartphones?
Poor people have smartphones. Even poor people in developing nations are likely to have smartphones. Basic smartphones are ultra cheap commodities.
Re:Americans are poorly served by their grocery stores
by bragr on Friday June 03, 2022 @05:36PM
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>Poor people have smartphones
Some poor people have smartphones. I guess some will get to eat. Also while there is penatration of smartphones into poorer countries, it is hardly 100%
>However, compared to other markets across the globe, India’s smartphone penetration rate is still relatively low. [1]
[1] https://www.statista.com/topics/4600/smartphone-market-in-in...
Re:Americans are poorly served by their grocery stores
by jdminhbg on Friday June 03, 2022 @06:42PM
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> Some poor people have smartphones. I guess some will get to eat.
I have no idea how you got from "smartphone apps will affect how people shop for food" to "anyone without a smartphone will be starved."
Re:Americans are poorly served by their grocery stores
by AmericanChopper on Friday June 03, 2022 @10:48PM
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Similar to their initial point, they just made it up.
What about all the poor people without smartphones? We have such an unequal distribution of wealth and technology in this county that (particularly on site like this with mostly digital natives) it is easy to loose sight of the fact that the poorest ~20% still don't have basic smart phones, or maybe even basic flip phones. Hell they might not even have email accounts.
One thing that has been made clear by all the social programs that were stood up during the pandemic is that landlines and snail mail are still the most common denominator of communication for the poor. Until we get to some simple "smartphones for all" program, I don't see this changing any time soon.