Posted on 06/02/2023 5:57:34 PM PDT by Libloather
A Chicago branch of Walgreens has been redesigned with just two aisles where customers may shop for themselves, the rest must be done via a kiosk.
The new 'anti-theft' store at at 2 East Roosevelt in downtown Chicago will trust shoppers to pick up 'essentials' for themselves in the two free aisles, but everything else must be ordered and picked up via a counter.
The store, which took weeks to construct, opened to mixed reviews on Tuesday.
One shopper told WBBM Newsradio their experience was positive: 'It is nice that, for the essentials, you no longer have to call security to get them to open the glass case.'
Another, however, felt that the lack of trust was disappointing: 'We should be able to be trusted to go in without having to have cameras and people watching us and all that stuff.'
'I'm not a huge fan of kiosk ordering. It's not going to make me come more often,' another man added.
A spokesperson for Walgreens told CWB Chicago the company is 'testing a new experience at this store with new concepts, technologies, and practices to enhance the experiences of our customers and team members.'
'It will continue to offer retail products and pharmacy services, just with a new look and feel that focuses on shopping digitally for convenience.
'Inside the store, customers will find an area where they can pick-up orders, digital kiosks for placing an order, as well as an area to shop for essential items.'
The move comes after Walgreens chief financial officer told investors on an earnings call earlier this year that executives may have overstated the effects of organized shoplifting.
'Maybe we cried too much last year,' James Kehoe said.
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> ‘We should be able to be trusted to go in without having to have cameras and people watching us and all that stuff.’
Yeah, you should. Talk to the ferals and Soros prosecutors about it.
Tha’s racist!
Gimmie dat’s are not interested in lifting essentials
That’s the way to do it. The less time I have to spend shopping the better. Just put my stuff in a sack, charge me, and out the door.
It won’t be long before you will have to pay for the products before they give them to you. Then they will have to make it so all sales will be final. I personally am ok with that. If you can’t make people honest by talking to them, you have to show them what it’s like when nobody is honest.
Progressives will destroy free choice.
Give the NAPAs (North American Pavement Apes) open license to steal whatever they want, and they’ll feel completely free to let their desires run wild, be it robbery, rape, strong arm robbery, car jacking and random murderers.
Believe it or not, many years ago, except for the display in the store window, everything you wanted to buy in a store was behind a counter. And you were not allowed back there. Somewhere along the way this basic principle got lost and we turned retail stores inside out, giving customers free access to the stockroom while putting employees where the customers used to be. The results have been a disaster. As any perusal of an aisle in a Home Depot will demonstrate.
Back to the future. That’s how stores were until Clarence Saunders came along with his self-service Piggley Wiggley. (They later gave the world shopping carts)
Progressive culture marches on - making insanity like this necessary.
It seems like there were fewer choices before.
Piggly Wiggly invented the modern store.
You don't even have to go IN the door at Kroger or Walmart these days. Order online, pull up to a marked parking space, punch in some numbers, and push the button to open your trunk.
Thieves hardest hit.......
😂🤣😆😜
No more reparations?
It seemed obvious to me that something like this was the solution. I am surprised Amazon did not step in and provide a delivery model like this already. Just place your order from a picture book kind of screen, then wait a few minutes and pick it up in the exit compartment AFTER you pay for it.
Most stores already have some kind of self checkout, so this should not be very difficult to do.
Seems like the modern concept of a retail store with stocked shelves worked fine for the better part of a century. It didn’t start to fail until recently, and mostly in blue areas. So I’m not sure the stores are to blame but rather the shoppers.
That said, maybe Service Merchandise was ahead of its time.
I’ll go further. Thanks, black people.
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