Even before the pandemic reconfigured every aspect of our daily lives, it was clear that the cash register — the kind with a drawer that pops out after your groceries are tallied — was headed for the dust heap of technology, joining fax machines and CD players. Many convenience stores, like CVS, Rite Aid and Target, started installing self-checkout stations a decade ago. — The Philadelphia Inquirer
Architecture critic Inga Saffron of The Philadelphia Inquirer examines the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has supercharged the automation of grocery stores and other spaces, finding that with the boom in grocery delivery services that has taken hold since the pandemic hit, some purveyors are adopting smaller scale versions of the fulfillment center model typically employed by digital behemoths like Amazon.
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MBI, it's coming faster than we think. I hate the current occupant of the WH so much, but the one thing I think many will be thankful for, it's his hastening of many issues we've collectively put off for another day; race/reparations, climate, economic, healthcare, education, global relations...all of it needs to be fixed, all at once. Thanks, Donald. You've done did something that no one thought possible.
This was the lord's plan bruh.
It's a dirty job but someone had to do it.
MBI?
The pandemic has also exponentially hastened the telecommuting experiment. Big potential impacts for both architects and architecture.
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