they sound fat

It would be cool if they could scale this up some. A huge automate warehouse You drive up to a window, rattle of your shopping list into a speaker, drive a little further to pay and watch as a couple of Mexicans load your purchases from a pallet into your trunk. the next step would be no Mexicans and involve some robotic crane instead.

Grocery stores in the Seattle area deliver. Go online, select your foodlikestuffs, and they'll bring it to your house and put it on your kitchen counter. No need to get off the couch.

um, i'm not a breeder, but it's possible that the target audience would be people with small children...

/like lard-asses would even bother cooking something anyways

Aren't these just what we call dairies or dairy shops? Just with an expanded product selection? Hell, I think there is still one of these drive-through shops less than a mile from my house, and it has been there forever.

Welcome to 1920, Massachusetts.

Trolljegeren: Hell, I think there is still one of these drive-through shops less than a mile from my hous

You drive to the drive-through grocery less than a mile from your house?

/ I guess that is a long distance to waddle

I wouldn't trust anyone ANYONE to pick out a suitable avocado for me.
/bacon turkey avocado with cucumber tomato on a potato bun is serious business.

As someone with soon to have 3 kids in car seats, I would love having one of these around here, just for the milk, bread, eggs we seem to go through at the speed of light. For some reason, they frown upon leaving kids in a locked car for 3 minutes outside Henny Penny's...

Not abut being lazy. I just don't want to deal with the dumbasses in the store.

LeroyBourne:
/bacon turkey avocado with cucumber tomato on a potato bun is serious business...

...as well as some seriously noxious gas.

alwaysjaded: Meh. I'd use it if I needed 1 item and was on my home from work after a long day.

But it annoys me to no end watching someone circle the parking lot for 5 hours for a spot that will save them 7 feet of walking. I'm no Fark Adonis but even I will just pull in to the first thing open and start walking.

/ has no idea what that had to do with anything.

I hate the people who park in the no parking zone at the gym so they don't have to walk so far to exercise.

SharkTrager: Not abut being lazy. I just don't want to deal with the dumbasses in the store.

/QFT

Wouldnt be necessary if groceries didnt hide the milk and eggs in the back

jaytkay: Trolljegeren: Hell, I think there is still one of these drive-through shops less than a mile from my hous

You drive to the drive-through grocery less than a mile from your house?

/ I guess that is a long distance to waddle

I see you have poor reading comprehension skills, and a limited intellect.

damnit, they stole my idea

before i was born

hell, if it works for beer, why not the regulars like milk, bread and eggs

Lots of grocery stores here in the Bay Area do it, and it's a major convenience for commuters. My son works 10-12 hours a day, and his wife doesn't drive, plus has a toddler at home. She shops via teh intarwebz and pays for the groceries with aa credit card, then he picks them up on his way home. He says there's a drive through lane where he gives his name, the pulls up and pops the trunk while a guy loads the bags. She even tips the bagger, so he's in and out in about a minute.

But given that we're on Fark this shopper photo is obligatory...

We don't need this.

Bathia_Mapes: moothemagiccow: Wouldnt be necessary if groceries didnt hide the milk and eggs in the back

They do that for a reason. By them placing eggs and milk to the back of the store, the customers are forced to walk down at least one aisle to get to them. Chances are the average shopper will spot something that interests them on that aisle and will end up purchasing more than just the milk and eggs.

Yeah i know bru. Thats why i brought it up

Bathia_Mapes: moothemagiccow: Wouldnt be necessary if groceries didnt hide the milk and eggs in the back

They do that for a reason. By them placing eggs and milk to the back of the store, the customers are forced to walk down at least one aisle to get to them. Chances are the average shopper will spot something that interests them on that aisle and will end up purchasing more than just the milk and eggs.

In my nearby grocery store (Market Basket), the bread and milk are on opposite sides of the store.

Then again, they don't goof around with loyalty cards or crap like that, just good food at better prices than Stop & Shop.

ecmoRandomNumbers: Pffft. Call me when they get drive-thru liquor stores like here in Arizona.


Having lived in Mass at many different periods of my life, and being a borderline alki myself, I will say this:

Mass doesn't need drive-thru liquor stores. Every damn day/night would be a replay of the Chappaquiddick incident.

/It's bad enough as it is

Loki-L: It would be cool if they could scale this up some. A huge automate warehouse You drive up to a window, rattle of your shopping list into a speaker, drive a little further to pay and watch as a couple of Mexicans load your purchases from a pallet into your trunk. the next step would be no Mexicans and involve some robotic crane instead.

You said "Mexicans" twice.

TeddyRooseveltsMustache: We don't need this.

I'd support it in a heartbeat. Place the order online and pick it up on the way home from work? That's a no-brainer. I'd gladly pay extra for the service and the time saved.

This actually sounds like a strange sort of revival of a much older concept of grocery shopping, when you'd give a list to the grocer and they'd gather things for you from the back of the store. That model went the way of the dodo around the turn of the 20th century, in favor of what were for a time called self-service grocery stores and now don't really have their own name since they're the only thing around.

I'm not entirely sure this is a bad thing, to be honest. It does indeed make grocery shopping less exercise, but it also cuts way down on marketing exposure, and I have trouble seeing that as anything but a major advantage.

enry: Bathia_Mapes: moothemagiccow: Wouldnt be necessary if groceries didnt hide the milk and eggs in the back

They do that for a reason. By them placing eggs and milk to the back of the store, the customers are forced to walk down at least one aisle to get to them. Chances are the average shopper will spot something that interests them on that aisle and will end up purchasing more than just the milk and eggs.

In my nearby grocery store (Market Basket), the bread and milk are on opposite sides of the store.

Then again, they don't goof around with loyalty cards or crap like that, just good food at better prices than Stop & Shop.

At one of my local Shop & Saves (that I like to call the Shot & Save due to all the killings) they put the cookie and snack row perpendicular to every row 3/4 the way across the store.

/took the kids there shopping one time

How is this a profitable business model? Don't grocery stores make their money from people meandering around the store, picking up things on impulse?

Nogale: How is this a profitable business model? Don't grocery stores make their money from people meandering around the store, picking up things on impulse?

Because these items are sold at a premium price based on the convenience.

Growing up in so cal
We had these and they were owned by the regional dairy.

They had deals with local bakeries and vendors to provide some additional staples but it was simply meant (like the article describes) as an option to fill in the blanks in between visits to the super market or butcher.

Ours was about a two mile walk from the house or less than five minutes in the car round trip if you woke for breakfast and realized you were missing milk or eggs.

I would love these in Atlanta

Ours growing up was also across the street from In n Out

I would love those in Atlanta too

FreakinB: Meh, it's been done around here. Though these places are more convenience store than full-on grocery store:

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Same thing where I went to college in eastern/central NC.

/Oddly, I can't find any pics on Google

RAWISRADFORD: Nogale: How is this a profitable business model? Don't grocery stores make their money from people meandering around the store, picking up things on impulse?

Because these items are sold at a premium price based on the convenience.

Growing up in so cal
We had these and they were owned by the regional dairy.

They had deals with local bakeries and vendors to provide some additional staples but it was simply meant (like the article describes) as an option to fill in the blanks in between visits to the super market or butcher.

Ours was about a two mile walk from the house or less than five minutes in the car round trip if you woke for breakfast and realized you were missing milk or eggs.

I would love these in Atlanta

Ours growing up was also across the street from In n Out

I would love those in Atlanta too

We still have them here in Antelope Valley. Great when it's 120 out, you're beat and all you need are eggs and milk. I'd love it if the grocery stores around here delivered, too, but they won't.

I'm calling it. Within two of years, nation-wide drive-through Walmart. It's inevitable.