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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday March 29 2017, @06:03PM   Printer-friendly
from the just-drive dept.

Waze's traffic navigation app already shows ads prodding drivers to swing by fast-food joints like Dunkin' Donuts and Taco Bell. Now it's adding a new item to its menu—the ability to place orders at some shops.

On Tuesday, the Google-owned app will start letting drivers purchase coffee and other items from Dunkin' Donuts for pickup along their way. It's the first time that Waze has offered this kind of "order ahead" option, but unlikely to be the last.

If all goes well with the Dunkin' Donuts test, Waze plans to team up with other merchants so its millions of users can order pizza, reserve parking spaces, fill prescriptions and even buy groceries without having to open another app on their phones.

"It could be almost anything that a driver could order ahead and have ready for pick up," said Jordan Grossman, head of Waze's business partnerships in North America.

They should dispatch drones to bring the donuts to your car while you're stuck in morning traffic.


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  • (Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Friday March 31 2017, @12:46AM

    by dyingtolive (952) on Friday March 31 2017, @12:46AM (#486851)

    Yeah, I wasn't trying to knock it (at least from a functionality point of view). It was a little strange from a "this is not how this normally works" kind of thing, but it worked out well enough and certainly was convenient. I'd just never seen it prior to then.

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