Shops return to rural Sweden but are now staff-free
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Re: Shops return to rural Sweden but are now staff-free
#2Ok but what if I wanted to shop without a smartphone, or don't own one?
Don't get me wrong this is great for the current situation but like all things it doesn't only have good things about it.
Re: Shops return to rural Sweden but are now staff-free
#3So how will the people who would have worked in a shop like this, afford to shop for food? In Sweden this probably isn’t as big of an issue, but not every country is as socially conscious.
Re: Shops return to rural Sweden but are now staff-free
#4Ok but what if I wanted to shop without a smartphone, or don't own one? Don't get me wrong this is great for the current situation but like all things it doesn't only have good things about it.
Yesterday on Spanish local tv show they showed how in a small rural town without banks / ATM's, a pharmacy dubbed as a bank / cash retrieval service in a rural town...
In another town the banks shared an office and each day of the week was for one of the banks to recieve customers lol. WeBank
Could have the same but backwards, give cash, recieve e-coupon, scan e-coupon in store.
Re: Shops return to rural Sweden but are now staff-free
#5So how will the people who would have worked in a shop like this, afford to shop for food? In Sweden this probably isn’t as big of an issue, but not every country is as socially conscious.
Yea I see more problems with this than benefits. Sure it's nice to have during corona times but what about after it when it's not necessary anymore?
Re: Shops return to rural Sweden but are now staff-free
#6Ok but what if I wanted to shop without a smartphone, or don't own one? Don't get me wrong this is great for the current situation but like all things it doesn't only have good things about it.
Many shops have a barrier/qualification to entry; membership at Costco for example.
Smartphones are now cheap as dirt. The bigger problem would be having a bank account.
Re: Shops return to rural Sweden but are now staff-free
#7how does refilling these container shops work? who does it? staff riding along on the truck? or is the entire shop replaced?
Re: Shops return to rural Sweden but are now staff-free
#8Ok but what if I wanted to shop without a smartphone, or don't own one? Don't get me wrong this is great for the current situation but like all things it doesn't only have good things about it.
If there is a need and its profitable then surely someone would provide that service?
Re: Shops return to rural Sweden but are now staff-free
#9So how will the people who would have worked in a shop like this, afford to shop for food? In Sweden this probably isn’t as big of an issue, but not every country is as socially conscious.
The answer seems to be that these stores wouldn't have existed in the first place. For now, at least, they're not taking jobs away.
> The store is part of the Lifvs chain, a Stockholm-based start-up that launched in 2018 with the goal of returning stores to remote rural locations where shops had closed down because they'd struggled to stay profitable.
Re: Shops return to rural Sweden but are now staff-free
#10Ok but what if I wanted to shop without a smartphone, or don't own one? Don't get me wrong this is great for the current situation but like all things it doesn't only have good things about it.
This is Scandinavia. Such a situation would be extremely rare and if that were the case visiting this shop would be a minor issue by comparison.