Americans are poorly served by their grocery stores

Re:Americans are poorly served by their grocery stores by robonerd on Friday June 03, 2022 @05:37PM (#31613984)

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!

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Re:Americans are poorly served by their grocery stores by astrange on Friday June 03, 2022 @10:16PM (#31616254)

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.

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Re:Americans are poorly served by their grocery stores by robonerd on Friday June 03, 2022 @10:25PM (#31616329)

If the app wasn't spyware, they wouldn't be so keen on getting me to use it instead of using a web page.

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Re:Americans are poorly served by their grocery stores by astrange on Friday June 03, 2022 @10:33PM (#31616378)

Nobody wants to use a grocery store web page on their phone, and nobody wants to use a computer instead of their phone.

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Re:Americans are poorly served by their grocery stores by robonerd on Friday June 03, 2022 @10:52PM (#31616498)

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.

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Re:Americans are poorly served by their grocery stores by OJFord on Saturday June 04, 2022 @10:40PM (#31627473)

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.

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