Walmart in your fridge...

[Jtalk4456]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2019/6/7/18656172/walmart-inhome-fridge-delivery-service

TL:DR Walmart is offering a grocery delivery service that will enter your house and put the food in your fridge.

 

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Starting this fall in the US, Walmart customers in select cities can choose to have their groceries delivered directly into their refrigerators when away from home. The InHome service will use Walmart vehicles and its own workers equipped with proprietary wearable cameras. Using undisclosed “smart entry technology,” Walmart employees will be able to enter homes to make deliveries, while customers will be able to control access and watch the deliveries remotely.

Sounds perfect. No security issues could possibly arise from this...

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The InHome services will launch this fall and be available to over 1 million customers in three cities: Kansas City, Missouri; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Vero Beach, Florida.

 

[TheSLSAMG]

I'm definitely not a Luddite, but sometimes I just feel like technology is moving too fast. This is definitely one of those times.

[poochyena]

That sounds very dangerous, not for home owners, but for the delivery guys. Seems very likely a dog would attack a stranger entering the house or the delivery guy tripping in a cluttered house.

[WereCat]

So what if I don't have a fridge and I order this service? 

[Velcade]

Is Amazon still letting their drivers in your house to drop off packages?

 

 

Pretty soon Casper will offer a bed time tuck-in service. 

[Bananasplit_00]

How about you fucking don't

[jiyeon]

I think Walmart is a bit late for April Fools.

[Taf the Ghost]

23 minutes ago, TheSLSAMG said:

I'm definitely not a Luddite, but sometimes I just feel like technology is moving too fast. This is definitely one of those times.

It's utterly insecure and it's not even new technology. Milk (and foodstuffs) deliveries go back to the 1800s in the modern era, and functionally back thousands of years. Safety is safety & trust is trust. No one should ever has any reason to trust a random stranger that far.

[TVwazhere]

29 minutes ago, Jtalk4456 said:

Using undisclosed “smart entry technology,”

[RotoCoreOne]

Even if they have cameras can monitor the entire 360 degrees around the employees, this is a no. Never know what the employee can see

[TVwazhere]

3 minutes ago, RotoCoreOne said:

Never know what the employee can see

(unless I'm totally misunderstand what you mean)

[RotoCoreOne]

I can look straight ahead but I can still read things that are not at the center, and the camera doesn't track and record where the eyes are watching.

[rawrdaysgoby]

I am sorry but this seems worst then Amazon

[TVwazhere]

40 minutes ago, RotoCoreOne said:

I can look straight ahead but I can still read things that are not at the center, and the camera doesn't track and record where the eyes are watching.

I'm still not sure how your issue pertains to having an employee enter a house. Are you concerned they're going to read something out of the corner of their eye they're not supposed to?

[kokakolia]

1 hour ago, poochyena said:

That sounds very dangerous, not for home owners, but for the delivery guys. Seems very likely a dog would attack a stranger entering the house or the delivery guy tripping in a cluttered house.

I'm already scheming a "prank" video with traps from the Home Alone movies on the way to the fridge. Poor Wal-Mart employees...

 

On a more realistic note, some people's fridges are gross and cluttered. And it takes some re-organizing to get things to fit. Are the delivery personnel going to jam stuff into your fridge? How do they know exactly what goes into the fridge and what doesn't? 

 

I know these questions sound kinda dumb...but these are real concerns. 

[bcredeur97]

I'm imagining a doublesided door fridge, one with a door outside your house that's locked in some way.

That way they don't have to go into your house, just open the fridge door from outside and fill it up.

[Brooksie359]

4 hours ago, TheSLSAMG said:

I'm definitely not a Luddite, but sometimes I just feel like technology is moving too fast. This is definitely one of those times.

Letting people into your house to deliver food to your fridge is not some advanced technology. It's just a dumb idea and a security risk. 

[Brooksie359]

3 hours ago, kokakolia said:

I'm already scheming a "prank" video with traps from the Home Alone movies on the way to the fridge. Poor Wal-Mart employees...

 

On a more realistic note, some people's fridges are gross and cluttered. And it takes some re-organizing to get things to fit. Are the delivery personnel going to jam stuff into your fridge? How do they know exactly what goes into the fridge and what doesn't? 

 

I know these questions sound kinda dumb...but these are real concerns. 

What if they are one if those monsters that puts peanut butter in the fridge

[Brooksie359]

3 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

I'm imagining a doublesided door fridge, one with a door outside your house that's locked in some way.

That way they don't have to go into your house, just open the fridge door from outside and fill it up.

That sounds like a huge investment just to get groceries delivered inside your fridge rather than in an insulated container at your front door like every other grocery delivery service. 

[bcredeur97]

26 minutes ago, Brooksie359 said:

That sounds like a huge investment just to get groceries delivered inside your fridge rather than in an insulated container at your front door like every other grocery delivery service. 

Yeah. Really not worth it but even getting it delivered to your door period is going to cost you extra

[Brooksie359]

1 hour ago, bcredeur97 said:

Yeah. Really not worth it but even getting it delivered to your door period is going to cost you extra

Yes that is true but not a large up front cost. For people who work alot and dont have time to go to the grocery store it makes sense to do delivery but it doesn't make sense to go to the hassle of building a fridge into your house. The entire point of getting it delivered is to avoid hassle not make more. 

[corsairian]

6 hours ago, poochyena said:

That sounds very dangerous, not for home owners, but for the delivery guys. Seems very likely a dog would attack a stranger entering the house or the delivery guy tripping in a cluttered house.

I was a temp worker at UPS. And i would deliver to a pretty wealthy area with a Driver. (id just drop boxes off at peoples doors, no driving.) I Get out of the truck to deliver this package and these 2 huge doberman almost as tall as me came out of no where barking up a storm.  I noped it back onto the truck and the Driver got out and walked past the dogs with like it was nothing.

 

He said its the small dogs that you need to look out for. they're the ones that bite.

[DesolationGod]

are people that lazy that this service will actually take off? I can see if the people are disabled and cant leave easily, but that alone wouldnt support the overhead for this...buying groceries is one thing i could never let someone do for me...

[Jtalk4456]

3 hours ago, Brooksie359 said:

What if they are one if those monsters that puts peanut butter in the fridge

hey! this is offensive to all the wonderful people who like cold peanut butter

the right people

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

While I trust Walmart more than I do Amazon, it's still not going to happen in my home! And I'm handicapped!