Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores

Re:Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery S... by shagie on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @08:47PM (#39912476)

I would contend that Dominos is a pizza logistics company rather than a seller of retail pizza (compare Pizza Hut).

https://biz.dominos.com/about-us/innovations/

They're not just selling pizza to make money - but also looking at making cars.

https://www.hagerty.com/media/car-profiles/why-dominos-dxp-d...

While I'm not going to claim that was a good idea, the point is that Dominos sees making and delivering pizza as one and the same business.

> 154 examples of the DXP cars were built. Along with the delivery driver, each DXP car could carry up to 45 pizzas, 12 two-liter sodas, and all the extra dipping sauces one could ever want. Add to that the fact that the car’s still held their five-year 100,000-mile warranty, were cheap on gas, and created a surprising amount of buzz, it is hard not to look at the DXP program as a success, low production aside.

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Re:Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery S... by dv_dt on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @11:33PM (#39913355)

It’s a shame they did not name the car model Deliverator

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Re:Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery S... by hackerlight on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @10:26PM (#39913014)

Is this not corpspeak kool-aid? Dominos and Pizza Hut do the same thing. They deliver pizza to people. Dominos knows how to hype the markets, though.

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Re:Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery S... by luma on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @04:02AM (#39914724)

Pizza Hut has in store seating, Dominoes does not.

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Re:Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery S... by hackerlight on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @04:47AM (#39914938)

If Dominos is a logistics company then Pizza Hut is both a logistics company and a dine-in restaurant.

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Re:Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery S... by shagie on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @04:14PM (#39922486)

I believe that Dominos would include the delivery as part of its core competencies and business value that distinguishes it from other pizza companies while others do not consider delivery as part of their core business.

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Re:Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery S... by rascul on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @12:42PM (#39919658)

Plenty of Pizza Huts don't have indoor seating anymore. Some Dominos used to, not sure if any do now.

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Re:Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery S... by adolph on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @10:15PM (#39912955)

Hopefully they were made of something nonferrous to prevent pooling by pesky Kouriers.

Edit: the Hagerty story was a nice read, thank you for linking to it

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