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posted by martyb on Sunday September 24 2017, @01:23PM   Printer-friendly
from the is-your-fridge-"clean"? dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 25 2017, @04:10PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 25 2017, @04:10PM (#572703)

    Too many kids. Seriously you have too many kids. People like you are bad for the world. Why do you and the missus feel the need to create almost 6 replacement copies a piece.

    Unless of course you've adopted or fostered. In which case thank you. Either way I am guessing at least half of those are yours biologically. SO STOP IT. you pumping out that many kids is going to hurt their lives, and their kids lives.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 25 2017, @07:28PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 25 2017, @07:28PM (#572756)

    Typically in one breath we hear "stop having kids because of pollution" and in the next breath we hear "we need to import young people" or "we should save lives in poor countries". Put it all together, and it meets the UN's definition of genocide: this is a campaign to effectively wipe out specific cultures, religions, and races. (those being more-or-less "western civilization")

    If we fail to have kids, and we import the 3rd world, then America becomes 3rd world. A nation is largely a people with its culture, not merely a chunk of land and a set of changable laws. It will be a long dark age if the USA and Europe become like Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America.

    My wife is hard-core Catholic. Birth control is a sin. I tried but gave up on religion; I'm an atheist. I proudly accept evolution and my role in it, desiring to win bigly. So we're compatible in a strange way, popping out 11 kids the all-natural way in less than 19 years. My wife is good for several more I think. We might end up with 14.

    Evolution is about to deal a brutal crushing blow to the sorts of people who live in a city with less than 3 kids. That mindset is strongly maladaptive in our current environment; it is strongly selected against. There will be a political impact.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @03:50AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @03:50AM (#572926)

      > ... hard-core Catholic.

      Sounds more like a throwback Catholic to me.