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Re: Amazon Dash

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Post by tdicola »

lowglow wrote: post #92
alaskamiller wrote: post #16

Number of steps to scan grocery by phone: 1. Find your phone 2. Unlock 3. Swipe left to home page three or maybe four 4. Visually scan for the AmazonFresh icon and tap 5. Wait for loading 6. Start scanning action 7. Confirm and pay Number of steps to scan grocery by Dash: 1. Get device from drawer or pantry 2. Press one button and scan 3. Confirm and pay For the target demo (30+, married, households with children), o…

Classic over engineering. "Number of steps to scan grocery by phone" Most people just use pencil + paper, or notepad/note app on phone. Never have I seen people actually use technology while shopping unless it's a typed out list.

Yep I agree. I've tried lots of to do lists, apps, etc. and always keep coming back to the pen and paper stuck to the refrigerator. Siri adding stuff to notes through voice rec worked pretty well, but it's a gigantic hassle to be cruising through the grocery store constantly turning your phone on and off to go through the list.

Although nicely executed, I really don't see Dash being more than something a gadget freak uses for a few weeks and then sits in a drawer forever. Also doesn't help that the area for Amazon Fresh is so small too.

Re: Amazon Dash

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

mcintyre1994 wrote: post #97

I've been expecting Tesco (UK) to do this for ages. They have supermarkets literally operating on this sort of device, you scan+bag as you go, and they have a decent national delivery service.

I wonder if they tried it and found there are less opportunities to upsell so it doesn't pay off: If I'm only scanning products I have then where's the discovery and upsell?

Re: Amazon Dash

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Post by FireBeyond »

tormeh wrote: post #106
hoka wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To some extent, though. When I'm home, my mother gets extremely frustrated (still!) that there isn't one remote that does everything.

Yeah, but she doesn't want all the buttons from all the remotes moved to a single monstermote, she wants the TV remote to do everything as if the only thing connected was a TV. "Why do I have to choose channels on my TV AND cable/satellite box?" and "why are there multiple sound levels for the HiFi, TV, cable and DVD boxes?" are questions no one has adequately answered and they're questions everyone except geeks and…

What of Logitech's Harmony system? It works around the concept of activities.

"Watch TV" - it asks initially, "What input is the TV set to?" "What remote do you use to control the volume?" "What remote to change the channel?"

And from then on, it works. It doesn't cover all on your list, but it has the potential.

Re: Amazon Dash

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Post by nickm12 »

wehadfun wrote: post #31

For some reason this made me thing of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat

A minor difference between Dash and Cuecat: when the CueCat launched, approximately none percent of magazine ads had CueCat codes. When Dash launched approximately 98% of household consumable items had bar codes.

Yes, if you throw away your box for your granola bars, you might not have the bar code handy, but it was at least there when you bought it in the store.

Re: Amazon Dash

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Post by simcop2387 »

zhemao wrote: post #112
[deleted] wrote: post #109

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It sounds like you're not familiar with Amazon Fresh (understandable given that it's currently only available in 3 cities in the US). You don't have to use this device to buy groceries from Amazon Fresh. You can just use their run-of-the-mill web store. https://fresh.amazon.com/welcome It's been available in Seattle for almost a year now, long before this thing came out.

Along with that they already have a phone app for android at least.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.demiroot.a...

Re: Amazon Dash

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Post by mullingitover »

azernik wrote: post #35
patja wrote: post #21

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I'm not sure that would help them. Amazon Fresh doesn't have a great record for beating grocery store pricing. See http://www.cnet.com/news/amazonfresh-vs-supermarket-a-hands-... which matches my personal experience when I've compared baskets of products my family commonly purchases. I will say when we used it, the produce quality was very good which was one of my concerns. Seems like they went above and beyond to ad…

The $299 annual fee does give some sticker shock, but annualized that's only about $6 per week (more like $4-5 if you already have a regular Prime membership and deduct that existing cost). Especially if you're shopping for 2 or more, that comes out to a pretty small tax on your regular grocery bill.

I signed up for the free trial (because that's the only way to see what they have available for sale). Browsed the prices, immediately canceled the free trial. I wouldn't use it even if it were free, tacking on $299 to pay for overpriced groceries is a non-starter. Granted I live only a mile from a grocery store, so it's not a compelling proposition to cut grocery store trips out of my life for that price. However, the people who'd likely get the most from this service (people living in rural areas) probably aren't going to have this service available to them anytime soon, if ever.

Re: Amazon Dash

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Post by Zigurd »

dotBen wrote: post #32

HN'ers asking why this isn't a cell phone app take note - this exemplifies why we (geeks) don't make good use cases for consumer tech and we should always be careful looking to our own habits and values when in a Product Development role. We're rarely the target customer and rarely behave like "average Joe". We're naturally resistant to superfluous redundancy ("My phone can already snap a barcode, I don't need a sepa…

2010 called and wants it's smartphones-are-for-rich-geeks product formulation back.

Everyone who would buy their groceries via Amazon has a smartphone. This device is as baffling as it looks. With a smartphone you have the choice of UPC code scanning, QR codes, or label/logo recognition (as in Goggles).

One of the photos implies it is a laser bar code scanner. So if this gizmo is useful, it's because it would be faster and more reliable than photographing bar codes. Not because potential users don't have, or can't use a phone camera for this purpose.

Re: Amazon Dash

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Post by plg »

"Apples"

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next day what shows up, exactly?

6 granny smith apples?

a 15 pound bag of golden delicious?

3 MacBooks pro?

ummm

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