Monoprix customer for two years, I can relate this is no false advertising or demonstration of intent : it works like this in real life.<p>Monoprix live in a nice niche of upper class consumers living in the center of rich towns. The produits are kind of expensive, but the service is neat.
I am still sceptical about AmazonGo.<p>1. How will Amazon technology work if two friends are walking into the store and both are adding products to the cart?<p>2. How will it work in a crowded store as it's quite possible that the product will end up if a different account?<p>Amazon might have to invest in more security guards than cashiers!
Fyi french supermarkets like carrefour or leclerc already have solutions where they give you a scanner and you scan yourself the stuff you buy and just pay when exiting. Very fast and convenient.
This is a very fun bit of PR, but it represents a very common mistake from corporate innovators.<p>1) Successful business model (retail)<p>2) Smart iteration on the business model (Monoprix livraison a domicile +)<p>3) For legacy reason, do not upend the whole business model, do not put it front and center, limit it to some categories / users<p>4) Watch a younger competitor, not uncumbered by legacy, focus solely on that service<p>5) Get shocked when they get PR. Release a video to say you've done it for 10years<p>6) Go bankrupt as the new service spreads like wildfire<p>Monoprix home delivery is great, my grandmother uses it quite a lot, but retailers are still totally going to get taken over by Amazon
Is this grocery charging 'Whole Paycheck' prices? The fact that they invest into this well-produced video, while referencing Amazon GO, located thousands of miles away in a different country, suggests their target demographic are tech-friendly and, by transitivity, affluent.<p>How about Amazon GO? Is that a toy / experience / novelty for affluent tech-savvy early adopters?<p>Sorry if I'm not political correct. I tried. My intent is not to troll or offend people who do shop at Whole Foods. I actually live in San Francisco, 10 feet away from a Whole Foods. I previously lived in Seattle, too. I feel that, compared to other fields such as Finance or law, tech tend to be more self-conscientious and guilty about income inequality.
Slightly different use case, though. Say I want a sandwich and a drink, I want that right now, not delivered to my house in one hour.<p>Funny PR, though !
Websites like this one piss me off. Here's the video on Youtube:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sF868SJSrE" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sF868SJSrE</a>
This is exactly how innovation is supposed to work - if a rival company (or a new entry to the market) comes up with a better solution then you have to innovate to survive. It's exactly why competition is important. It forces companies to improve what they offer. If they can do it in clever ways that don't cost much, that's even better. The business wins and the customer gets a better experience.<p>If Amazon has shocked the supermarket industry in to action then that's <i>awesome</i>.
If my understanding of this Google-translated French page[0] is correct, it costs 1€, and there is a minimum order of 50€. I may be mistaken.<p>If so, that can be a big difference, especially to the crowd that puts groceries in their personal bags, as depicted in both ads.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.monoprix.fr/livraison-a-domicile?menuName=services1" rel="nofollow">https://www.monoprix.fr/livraison-a-domicile?menuName=servic...</a>
Did anyone else find the original Amazon Go video's mentioning "deep learning", "webscale technologies" and "generic buzzwords" funny, when in reality they probably use people behind security camera screens tallying up what you buy?
In India all local stores have this service, you fill up a basket leave it at counter with your address. They'll bill it and deliver at home and you'll pay in cash. Though no large chain I know does this.
Is all this "deep learning", "computer vision" and "sensor fusion" necessary when you could just put RFID tags on the items?
As usual Amazon tries to take over an industry and makes no profit, which is their usual recipe. They have a P/E of 174 which means there is no chance they will ever make enough to be a real profitable enterprise. Outside of AWS I think everything else contributes no profits at all. But I do like the leave the cart idea although that only works if the prices supports the extra delivery.
Ahah, nice troll. But I still prefer to both those options the way I do it : I just shop on store's website and ask for delivery. This allows me to have shopping lists that I can use as templates, I can shop any hour of the day and take time to compare products.<p>Granted, this is especially a good fit for me because I work from home and can receive deliveries any time.
The point of Amazon Go is instant gratification. The point of this is not carrying stuff to your house. Cool troll, but they should be careful of the false sense of superiority. Perhaps they could hire some Nokia and BlackBerry execs to explain the concept to them.
I wonder what the difference between the cost of Amazon's technology is vs Monoprix's service?<p>Monoprix may have found that they can make more money / save on initial outlay of shop fitting by offering a similar service, but without the technology.
Amazon Go Is About Way More Than Groceries: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA2-iMz479o" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA2-iMz479o</a>
I couldn't stand the feeling of anxiety that you have to be home an hour later and wait for someone to show up with your grocery. Not only that, but what if they miss or misplace something? Too many questions to write. Obviously not for me. But Amazon Go looks like something I could use.
On another topic, please don't be that site: 66 MB over 325 requests and 30s to load over a 50mbps connection. And that's <i>after</i> Origin blocked 166 more assets. You're ruining the internet for everyone.<p>By contrast, HN is 65k and 1s.