Window Shopping
By skysuccess
@skysuccess (8858)
Singapore
August 29, 2011 4:09am CST
Just read this and couldn't help wondering what window shopping will be like in the near future.
Launched by Ocado, which is called "Virtual High Street Grocery Shop" where customers would need a bar-code reading smartphone to scan the various bar-codes of their wanted groceries and have their orders delivered to their doorsteps.
I find this quite cool and bring about so much convenience for shoppers who need heavy groceries like rice and flour. Also, there will not be need for a lot of expensive floor spaced shops in the future where all they merely need is a huge wall to put up their wares.
What do you think?
Ref:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2030114/How-buy-virtual-groceries-shop-windows-delivered-door.html
5 responses
@zandi458 (28102)
• Malaysia
29 Aug 11
With this virtual shopping fully implemented and people getting the hang of virtual shopping, it will greatly help to ease the maddening traffic jams that we are experiencing now. But honestly speaking I like going to the supermarket to pick my own groceries as this is the only time I get a chance to go out from the confine of my home prison. 
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@skysuccess (8858)
• Singapore
29 Aug 11
zandi458,
I hope that the next time you leave your house will be for something more purposeful and like to do but never got to do it.
I see that there are many developments in the area of online virtual shops but I think this is a first for businesses to consider.
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@CharityHobbs27 (33)
• Ireland
29 Aug 11
I love the idea! I still enjoy going over to Tesco's and physically getting the shopping, but lately I have really started to enjoy shopping online and from catalogues. Its like shopping at my own leisure, no ques no hassle! The only worries I have is will jobs be lost in the future or would it increase jobs? and are we as a society at a danger of becoming isolated and never leaving our homes again hee hee!
@skysuccess (8858)
• Singapore
29 Aug 11
CharityHobbs27,
Like you, I do agree the conveniences that come with this form of shopping where so much time is being saved on traveling, looking for parking space and not forgetting the queues at cash counters. With the time saved, I am sure we can use that for our family, friends and most of all, ourselves.
On the point about jobs, I believe whilst there may not be demands for shop assistants or cash counter staff, but I am sure there will be other doors for customer service representatives and deliveries for a start.
Besides, the next time when we leave our homes, we will be doing something more purposeful.
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@cutepenguin (6431)
• Canada
29 Aug 11
Window shopping may be mostly Internet shopping. People may not want to buy smart phones just to shop for items.
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@skysuccess (8858)
• Singapore
2 Sep 11
cutepenguin,
As far as smartphone is concern, I am sure you will agree with me that all of us really have no control of its future dominance in the cellular network and communications.
Technology has improved leaps and bounds witnessing simple analog cellular phones to the GSM phones to the current Android or iOS phones - I am sure, it will come a time GSM phones will be like its analog predecessors become history.
Besides, I am sure you are aware that some chained departmental stores and supermarkets are already accepting payments via smartphones which are connected to individual internet banking accounts. So, this form of grocery shopping will become broadly available in time to come.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
1 Sep 11
In a certain sense, this really seems like bringing back the milkman and I really do love the idea. People today are very busy and that means that we don't always have the time that it takes to get to the grocery store and get all of the food that we need on a weekly basis. What would make it even better is to have a way to make our orders into something that would recur on a regular basis so we would never have any more inconvenices.
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@sathyashreesai (13)
• India
29 Aug 11
window shopping is nothing but one can view all things in a shop and there is no need to buy them..no one can question them for not buying..it passes our time..we can get more ideas about new things and we can buy them after we have money..too expensive things cannot be bought at the first moment..so we can do window shopping as the first step and we can buy them..
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