Beautifully done Amazon. No one will ever comparison shop. They won't price check. They will happily order whatever the button is linked to for the rest of time.
Next up, buttons for kids, to get em hooked early. A Cheerio button! :)
Amazon Dash Button
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I'm at the grocery store approximately zero times a year. For me a "summon cat litter" button would be a marked improvement in my life.
Interesting. Do you order groceries online or something? If so, what happens when, say, your apples come bruised?
> If so, what happens when, say, your apples come bruised?
Me: these apples are bruised
Tesco man: sorry sir, let me refund that straight away. And keep the apples, you could make a pie with them.
Though in five years of online grocery shopping I've only returned a couple of items. The apples have made it all the way unbruised from New Zealand after all, four more miles is nothing.
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My problem is with some items that I buy only twice a month, like bath soap or mayonnaise. I notice that it's about get empty (or it's already empty :() and I put them in my mental to-buy list. If I'm lucky I'll remember them the next time that I go to the supermarket. And probably also the following time and a few more times until I realize that I got a lot of it and I remove the item from the list. So I don't have…
I switched to buying things of this nature in bulk. You're more prone to ordering more of something if you realize you're down to the last 3 out of 10. That gives you 3 more tries to make sure you order it.
I don't have space in my apartment for three of everything.
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#414Am i the only one who's reminded of Idiocracy's hospital scene? https://s3.amazonaws.com/lardbiscuit/pix/idiothospital.jpg
Consider me old fashioned, but what is so hard about a shopping list, or a problem that's not already solved by amazon subscriptions? Especially on essential items, usage rate is pretty static, and its not like hitting "OMG IM OUT OF BOUNTYS!" button will make them instantly appear.
Perhaps this is their implementation of Adobe's "encyclopedia" commercial? (ok im done with TV references)
What WOULD be cool and useful is a way for me to say "hey, send me this subscription item a week later/earlier because my usage rate is not what i thought it would be.
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#415Am i the only one who's reminded of Idiocracy's hospital scene? https://s3.amazonaws.com/lardbiscuit/pix/idiothospital.jpg Consider me old fashioned, but what is so hard about a shopping list, or a problem that's not already solved by amazon subscriptions? Especially on essential items, usage rate is pretty static, and its not like hitting "OMG IM OUT OF BOUNTYS!" button will make them instantly appear. Perhaps this…
If Amazon is successful with drone deliveries, it might end up being "press the button and X magically appears"
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#416Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm at the grocery store approximately zero times a year. For me a "summon cat litter" button would be a marked improvement in my life.
Interesting. Do you order groceries online or something? If so, what happens when, say, your apples come bruised?
This is relatively common in the UK. Online grocery shopping is very much mainstream. All of the major supermarkets offer it, plus Ocado which is online only (and the best).
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#417This makes me envious of you Americans. Here in Norway online shopping involves finding an online store that sells what you need (there's no site that sells everything, like Amazon, here), going through a cumbersome sign-up/payment process, paying a lot of money for the shipping costs, waiting several days and having to go to the post office unless the package is really small (or if you're willing to pay even more fo…
Americans are spoiled. Whether you think this innovation will be useful to you personally or not, the amount of hate spewed at it is just fascinating. Think this is not useful? Don't buy it.
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#418This makes me envious of you Americans. Here in Norway online shopping involves finding an online store that sells what you need (there's no site that sells everything, like Amazon, here), going through a cumbersome sign-up/payment process, paying a lot of money for the shipping costs, waiting several days and having to go to the post office unless the package is really small (or if you're willing to pay even more fo…
I'm pretty sure most Americans will give up amazon for free education, health care, paid maternity and paternity leave and the many other social benefits Norway provides to its nationals.
Or live in the UK and get all of those, plus Amazon and ubiquitous online grocery shopping. On which point, I'd go for a button like this that added items to my Ocado basket.
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#419Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm pretty sure most Americans will give up amazon for free education, health care, paid maternity and paternity leave and the many other social benefits Norway provides to its nationals.
I definitely would not give up amazon for free education, health care, etc... Those socialists implementations come at a very high cost. Yes, our current system is not well, but it's better than the government taking 60% of my earned income.
Don't forget to add your health insurance premiums to your tax rate before comparing. I pay less in Canada than I did in California when you add health care costs. And I and my kids can never lose insurance from a run of bad luck.
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#420This device is an intriguing idea. I wonder what other cool things can be done around the house with a single purpose wireless button connecting to the internet.