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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: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday September 25 2017, @02:15PM (5 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday September 25 2017, @02:15PM (#572658) Journal

    A bit of humor, maybe, but no sarcasm. Homicides happen every day, for which no one is punished. There are pleas of self defense, charges are often reduced to negligent homicide, accidental homicide, death by misadventure, manslaughter, and possibly other things that I haven't heard of. "Murder" is a pretty specific crime, in which the defendant most definitely intended to kill the victim. Murders are further broken down into three categories - but that's really beside the point. You aren't guilty of murder, unless and until a court actually convicts you of murder. And, even then, there are myriad appeals to be appealed - just because a jury of my peers finds me guilty of murder in the third degree doesn't mean the conviction will stick.

    Add to all of that - the Bible recognizes the difference between "killing" and "murder". The commandment in the original Jewish scripts read, "Thou shall do no murder". It most definitely does not say, "Thou shalt not kill." Killing was often justified in the Bible, but murder was never justified. I dare say that other Holy books recognize that not-very-subtle difference.

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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday September 25 2017, @07:34PM (4 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday September 25 2017, @07:34PM (#572761) Journal

    Why do you put any stock by what the Bible says? This is the same book that says kill a kid if he curses his parents, or anyone who picks up sticks on Saturday (yes, Saturday, not Sunday; Sunday sabbath is a pagan Roman invention).

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    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday September 26 2017, @01:28AM (3 children)

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday September 26 2017, @01:28AM (#572870) Journal

      Stock in the Bible - because Christianity influenced almost all of the English Common Law, upon which our own laws are based. Think about it.

      • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday September 26 2017, @02:25AM (2 children)

        by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday September 26 2017, @02:25AM (#572898) Journal

        Have you read the Bill of Rights recently? Compare that with the 10 Commandments and get back to me.

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        • (Score: 1, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday September 26 2017, @02:27AM (1 child)

          by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday September 26 2017, @02:27AM (#572901) Journal

          Yeah, I've read the bill of rights a time or more. Now, try acting like you're fucking LITERATE. I said that Christianity INFLUENCED our laws.

          • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday September 26 2017, @03:26AM

            by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday September 26 2017, @03:26AM (#572920) Journal

            Indeed, and it's still trying to do so today, much to our detriment.

            You are, once again, missing the point, and I suspect deliberately too. The US owes more to Enlightenment thought for its laws than Christianity; in particular, the First Amendment runs entirely counter to the very heart of Christianity (and Judaism and Islam). Slavery, monarchy, and warfare are the Abrahamic God's stock in trade. He is said to be fighting a war with the forces of evil...how, precisely, does an omniscient, omnipotent, *absolutely sovereign* being have enemies, much less enemies who can apparently put up a respectable struggle?

            Face it, you're another one who doesn't know the first thing the Bible says while trying to use it as some sort of anchor point for modern Western civilization, when our freedoms arose *in spite* of our Christian background, *not* because of it. You really suck at this. Go play with your car or something, will you?

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