Zoe
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What stops me from taking more than I paid for.
Because it's tracking what you take out
What stops me from taking more than I paid for.
It took 6 hours before they apologized for the name on medium. Ok not on medium
But https://blog.bodega.ai/so-about-our-name-aa5bff63a92d
Sorry it may have been posted already.
It feels like society is getting a bit tired of giving tech people a free pass on everything they dream up.
can this thing cook me a bacon egg and cheese on a bagel or what?
What stops me from taking more than I paid for.
Its basically a universal vending machine with a streamlined payment scheme.
I don't share the negativity. Seems like a fine idea for some places, and could make more sense than using traditional vending machines.
The use-cases presented are offices and college campuses and the like, not a replacement for the corner store.
Eventually, centralized shopping locations wont be necessary, because there will be 100,000 Bodegas spread out, with one always 100 ft away from you.
I am guessing their business plan is to be purchased by Amazon for a billion dollars.
They also state this:Yet they state that this is their ultimate goal.
Corner stores have been fixtures of their neighborhoods for generations. They stock thousands of items, far more than we could ever fit on a few shelves. Their owners know what products to carry and in many cases who buys what. And they're run by people who in addition to selling everything from toilet paper to milk also offer an integral human connection to their patrons that our automated storefronts never will.
We want to bring commerce to places where commerce currently doesn't exist. Rather than take away jobs, we hope Bodega will help create them. We see a future where anyone can own and operate a Bodega — delivering relevant items and a great retail experience to places no corner store would ever open.
I am guessing their business plan is to be purchased by Amazon for a billion dollars.
This is the real kicker. If this actually works well then I could see it blowing up.
Yeah, it basically sounds like the Amazon grocery store's technology as a cupboard.
That line about making bodegas a thing of the past rub me the wrong way.
Salute to you for saying what I was to furious to say.This is the shit I hate. The shit I absolutely, positively do not like.
Let's get the name out of the way. Absolutely cornball move calling this a bodega and using the bodega cat as a meme. Strikes me as two well off dudes that follow /r/blackpeopletwitter and think they know what's hip and cool with millennials. I bet the even did some surveys where they mysteriously found 90% (or more) of people that would call this unoffensive.
Well look at that.
My biggest issue with this is how fucking common it is for silicon valley guys to come out with some startup that talks about making life better that inherently makes life worse for people that fall into lower income brackets. These people are typically minorities too, making things even more tone deaf.
Bodegas are community staples. Relationship are built there with the people that work/own the shop and with people in your neighborhood that frequent the establishment too.
So let's replace those institutions with ikea-looking boxes bearing that Bodega name. Boxes that won't help you out when you need milk for your kids but are short on cash. Or will give you your first job working the register after school. Or will give you a place to dip into when someone from your neighborhood wants to fight for no reason.
Bodegas are the last real example of the American dream; People fulfilling a need in their own community and starting and owning their own business. So of course two Google bros are popping up, wanting to take the name and replace the an extension of your family in some ways with some soulless box.
They roll in with half-baked ideas like "what if Home Depot bought in and sent them to job sites??" Never really considering the people that are actually hurt. They get high off the idea of being a 'disruptor' and changing the way business is done or pushing progress forward. Forward where, my guys? To an antisocial society where we buy shit out of boxes? To a society where less middle class people have good jobs that service the community they're part of?
I'm sure their answers to these questions would be that they should get "training" for 'other fields' or that it's the governments responsibility to look out for those people I'm describing. To which I would agree, however we all have the same government but we certainly aren't governed the same. So what are you doing about that, you silicon valley dweebs.
I bet these dudes consider themselves liberal too. I bet they don't realize this is the shit that makes people turn away from the left because well off, left leaning people don't actually consider those at the bottom all that much.
This is a long post. I apologize. I'm just mad a lot these days.
Should call it Brodega.
WOW, giving it the name of the thing you are trying to eliminate, probably rename the actual old bodega's "American Bodegas" to imply they were not the true Bodegas.
Just call it 'over priced city supplies for the people who spent $1000 for a freaking phone - machine'.
Is that the current target market for average existing bodegas? Is this really poised to drive existing bodegas out of existence?
This is the shit I hate. The shit I absolutely, positively do not like.
Let's get the name out of the way. Absolutely cornball move calling this a bodega and using the bodega cat as a meme. Strikes me as two well off dudes that follow /r/blackpeopletwitter and think they know what's hip and cool with millennials. I bet the even did some surveys where they mysteriously found 90% (or more) of people that would call this unoffensive.
Well look at that.
My biggest issue with this is how fucking common it is for silicon valley guys to come out with some startup that talks about making life better that inherently makes life worse for people that fall into lower income brackets. These people are typically minorities too, making things even more tone deaf.
Bodegas are community staples. Relationship are built there with the people that work/own the shop and with people in your neighborhood that frequent the establishment too.
So let's replace those institutions with ikea-looking boxes bearing that Bodega name. Boxes that won't help you out when you need milk for your kids but are short on cash. Or will give you your first job working the register after school. Or will give you a place to dip into when someone from your neighborhood wants to fight for no reason.
Bodegas are the last real example of the American dream; People fulfilling a need in their own community and starting and owning their own business. So of course two Google bros are popping up, wanting to take the name and replace the an extension of your family in some ways with some soulless box.
They roll in with half-baked ideas like "what if Home Depot bought in and sent them to job sites??" Never really considering the people that are actually hurt. They get high off the idea of being a 'disruptor' and changing the way business is done or pushing progress forward. Forward where, my guys? To an antisocial society where we buy shit out of boxes? To a society where less middle class people have good jobs that service the community they're part of?
I'm sure their answers to these questions would be that they should get "training" for 'other fields' or that it's the governments responsibility to look out for those people I'm describing. To which I would agree, however we all have the same government but we certainly aren't governed the same. So what are you doing about that, you silicon valley dweebs.
I bet these dudes consider themselves liberal too. I bet they don't realize this is the shit that makes people turn away from the left because well off, left leaning people don't actually consider those at the bottom all that much.
This is a long post. I apologize. I'm just mad a lot these days.
Honestly, the branding is what got them into trouble. The basic concept is fine, and already in practice in tons of places. A vending machine that sells everyday goods isn't new, it's just of too niche value to be of any worth. If these guys think they can solve the supply chain problems around small space retail - go for it.Its basically a universal vending machine with a streamlined payment scheme.
I don't share the negativity. Seems like a fine idea for some places, and could make more sense than using traditional vending machines.
The use-cases presented are offices and college campuses and the like, not a replacement for the corner store.
Guess we know why they're ex-Google now.
It's in the article but bodega is a Hispanic/Latin term. Lots of bodegas are owned and operated by minorities in large cities. This company is legit taking the culture and pushing them out with it. Hurting these families worse than some are already now being with rising costs of rent.
It's despicable.
Really? Is that the significance of "bodega" in the US?
For us, spanish speaking people, "bodega" is simply an storehouse/warehouse.
stayed in a hotel that had a mini bar that worked like this. No app, but they'd automatically add the purchase to your bill if you picked anything out of the fridge.
I dont quite understand the hate here.
If it fails, it fails. Why so much hate against some entrepreneurs getting some press about their company?
Also; I dont see you guys campaigning in Japan.
I dont quite understand the hate here.
If it fails, it fails. Why so much hate against some entrepreneurs getting some press about their company?
Also; I dont see you guys campaigning in Japan.
By automatically, do you mean actually automatic, or that the maids add anything that's missing to your bill?
stayed in a hotel that had a mini bar that worked like this. No app, but they'd automatically add the purchase to your bill if you picked anything out of the fridge.
Really? Is that the significance of "bodega" in the US?
For us, spanish speaking people, "bodega" is simply an storehouse/warehouse.
Im not sure Im getting this. Whats so different about the technology in this that current vending machines already cant do the same? theres equipment vending machines used in industries that need to supply their employees 24/7, you see electronics and toiletry vending machines in airports all the time etc.
The future is heading towards amazons cashier free stores. But there will still be stores.
was that in your room?
because if so then they know who to charge already and dont need the app or camera, just the cc info of who booked the room and someone to go check whats been taken
hotels have been doing that for a while now i think, depending on the hotel