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Walmart wants to test "in-fridge delivery" for Silicon Valley customers with August Home "smart locks":
Here's how the test will work: I place an order on Walmart.com for several items, even groceries. When my order is ready, a Deliv driver will retrieve my items and bring them to my home. If no one answers the doorbell, he or she will have a one-time passcode that I've pre-authorized which will open my home's smart lock. As the homeowner, I'm in control of the experience the entire time – the moment the Deliv driver rings my doorbell, I receive a smartphone notification that the delivery is occurring and, if I choose, I can watch the delivery take place in real-time. The Deliv associate will drop off my packages in my foyer and then carry my groceries to the kitchen, unload them in my fridge and leave. I'm watching the entire process from start to finish from my home security cameras through the August app. As I watch the Deliv associate exit my front door, I even receive confirmation that my door has automatically been locked.
While some may find the idea creepy, others have downplayed the creepiness factor:
"Five years ago consumers wouldn't have assumed they'd let a stranger drive them from the airport, much less stay in their house," said Forrest Collier, the CEO of eMeals, a platform that offers shopping lists based on recipes and loads the items into online shopping carts at Walmart and Kroger (KR) . "Now both Uber and Airbnb are billion-dollar companies."
For now, the fridge restocking service will only be available to Silicon Valley users of August Home. Customers will get a notification through their August Home app every time a delivery person drops off their food.
[...] Even though this Walmart service sounds "creepy on the front end," said Collier of eMeals, "it's really not as creepy as letting a stranger sleep in your bedroom."
Also at LA Times, Reuters, SiliconBeat, and CNET.
(Score: 2, Flamebait) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday September 25 2017, @12:49AM (4 children)
...but Runaway wishes it starred Runaway. Note the subtle anti-black references in there ("we run together since we was kids" etc). This is a man who wants to shoot someone, preferably in a heroic manner, but I have a feeling anyone "disposable" will do. Fuck me, every time this guy posts he comes more and more unhinged.
Does he think we don't notice it? Is he crying for help, or actually hoping that someone here will read his brain-vomit and think he's impressive and manly and alpha and in no way scarred for life by daddy beating his ass raw?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @05:29AM (3 children)
Save the attempt at mind reading for the magic show, Blaine.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday September 26 2017, @07:30AM (2 children)
That's hardly mind reading. It's a picture book with what little text it contains in very large, wobbly print, written in what i will charitably assume is brown crayon.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @09:13AM (1 child)
Your continued claim at mental divining has not gone (laughably) unnoticed.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday September 26 2017, @08:19PM
It doesn't take a telepath to figure out what's going on here, pal. Cry some more for me, your tears are delicious and salty. But kind of buttery. You should cut down on the saturated fat a bit.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...