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https://gizmodo.com/amazon-reportedly-d ... nt=gizmodo

Interestingly it appears Amazon's whole thing was a Mechanical Turk all along and they're moving their bigger shops to the magic trolleys instead.

Putting the new POS out this evening



and I can't get the thought of these out my head

Andrew Wood wrote: and I can't get the thought of these out my head

Perhaps the demolition companies will take Tesco to court?

TDR Capital are to acquire Zuber Issa's majority shares in Asda.

Mohsin Issa will remain a minority shareholder along with Walmart.

It's a bit of a dry article, but El Reg are reporting that Asda's IT (still not yet migrated from Walmart's systems) is to be outsourced to TCS - which sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.

https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2024/06 ... _tupe_tcs/

The comments are an interesting read too - including someone claiming the Issa brothers have fallen out (hence Zuber selling his share to private equity), and that the recent shift to a new payroll provider left hundreds of staff paid hundreds of pounds short.

It can only really end badly. I'm thinking empty aisles in some stores with massive bulk quantities of random items in others.

Tragic what those lads have done to Asda.

I'm having flashbacks to when Morrisons took over Safeway, and brought with them their paper-based stockkeeping systems, leading to them having no idea what they had on the shelves (much of which then ended up being way beyond its best-before dates)

Not to be a lemon but what do you mean by a paper-based system? Were Safeway using a computerised system which Morrisons switched to paper?

Yes, that's exactly what happened. Taking things back 20-odd years was always going to cause massive problems.

AndrewPSSP wrote: Thu 20 Jun, 2024 18.36 Not to be a lemon but what do you mean by a paper-based system? Were Safeway using a computerised system which Morrisons switched to paper?

Yes, and they also glued pieces of plastic over the pay-at-the-pump card readers in the petrol stations to make them unusable...

News from my local store:

https://www.retailgazette.co.uk/blog/20 ... -trolleys/

They've recently installed a bit of a one-way system, with permanent fencing leading from the wind lobby to the entry gates. It does make it a bit awkward if you just need to go to the pharmacy or the parcel collection robot, which are on the exit side.