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vkou 7 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Kroger acknowledges that its bet on robotics went ...

You've reinvented the Soviet grocery store, but with robots instead of people and with a $7 cup of coffee.

markus_zhang 7 months ago [–]

I remember those stores as I came from a similar background. One vital difference is that they all have workers who have a straight face and don’t give it a fuck about customer service.

Then in the 90s they were all washed away by the new ones.

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