Do you ever feel like some people are rushing us into a “George Jetson” lifestyle, but without all the cool flying cars and sky houses? They simply want everything to feel less “human” and cozy.
There’s a dystopian feeling associated with what many people refer to as “the future,” and I’m not sure why it has to be that way. To be “cool” and “new,” it doesn’t have to feel like you’re shopping at a Mission to Mars substation.
There are interesting ways to combine technology with humanity and cozy designs.
But I suppose that’s not part of the WEF’s grand reset strategy. We must all walk around like zombies in stark white modern buildings, devoid of personality.
It appears that not everyone is on board with that plan.
Indeed, the “future supermarket” that Amazon hoped to launch appears to have collided with an iceberg and sunk.
Amazon’s plans to take over the world will have to be put on hold for the time being.
Eat This Not That reported:
Amazon’s supermarket of the future appears to be stuck in a dystopian present.
A growing number of new Amazon Fresh locations—stores promising all sorts of high-tech conveniences, such as a speedy “Just Walk Out” payment system—are mysteriously sitting dark, according to multiple reports.
Dubbed “zombie stores” by The Information, which first reported on the phenomenon, the dormant locations appear to be fully constructed and ready to open, but the doors remain closed. Amazon won’t explain why, either, leaving shoppers and local leaders puzzled about the delays.
Initial reports indicated at least seven built-out locations sitting idle in California, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. That original tally doesn’t include places like Westport, Conn., where residents have been waiting for months for their Amazon Fresh store to open. And waiting. And waiting.
Westport blogger Dan Woog writes that he’s been fielding constant questions about the town’s store status, after activity ground to a halt at the once-bustling construction site.
“We don’t comment on our future roadmap,” an Amazon spokesperson told The Westport Journal. Other inquiring media outlets have received matching no-comment replies.
A similar story is also taking place in the suburbs of Chicago and Minneapolis.
“It’s just a business decision on Amazon’s part, and they’re not very good at sharing,” Daniel Ritter, the interim community development director in Tinley Park, Ill., griped to his local Patch. Ritter said he hasn’t heard from the Seattle company since September about his town’s 35,000-square-foot store, which is now fully built, adding that his requests for an update have been ignored.
The same can be said for a planned 40,000-square-foot store in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. “We understand the internal build-out has been delayed, but we don’t know why,” Eden Prairie City Manager Rick Getschow told the Eden Prairie Local News.
I suppose millennials (like myself) and zoomers would enjoy this, but I can’t imagine my mom (gen x) or grandmother (boomer) doing all that tech stuff just to go get some food. My mother has no patience and would never stand there asking for help by speaking into a “box” on the wall.
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