Chapter 1: What is Amazon's Project Kobe and why is it significant?
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After today's Daily Tech Update, this is amazing. I'm going to share with you this week's Saturday steals. It's just some of my favorite finds that will make life a little smarter, easier, and tech ahead, all at a great price. Until now, Amazon's project code was being developed in secret. But now the first store will open near Chicago.
And it's clear Amazon has positioned itself to take on both Walmart and Costco with robots and AI. The only question is, do we want it? Amazon has always wanted physical stores, real customers shopping at retail. What they've come up with are quarter million square foot super centers combining grocery and general merchandise. with an automated robotic AI fulfillment center.
You walk the aisles at your leisure, wander from department to department, inspect the merchandise, and when you're ready, it's packaged up and paid for. You just take it to the car. And that's the question. Do we really want to go to that much trouble? Or has shopping from our phones spoiled us just way too much? Join almost a million folks who get my free newsletter every single day.
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Chapter 2: How does Amazon plan to compete with Walmart and Costco?
The AirTag was not in lost mode, but she tracked down the owner a few days later. It turns out that new coat was actually a return to Amazon. Wow. Now, prepare to be amazed by this insider secret. So how can you tell if you're buying a return? Haha, pray tell, you have come to the right place.
You can tell if an item you bought on Amazon was returned if it has a label that starts with the letters LPN. LPN. I mean, seriously, where else are you going to learn this type of stuff? April in Huntsville, glad to have you. Hi, April. Hi, Kim. It's great to talk to you. Well, thank you.
Chapter 3: What innovative features will Amazon's megastore include?
What's going on?
A couple of weeks ago, my best friend and I were headed to Houston from Atlanta. And it's all over the news. TSA lines are incredible weights, right? Oh, yeah. But you came through for us. You let us know that in addition to our TSA pre-check, we could get the touchless ID service. So we went into our apps and signed both of us up for the touchless ID. We were excited. We were ready to go.
When we got to Atlanta, Terminal South, it took us about 30 minutes to find the end of the line.
Chapter 4: What are the implications of combining retail with automated fulfillment?
Oh, wow. Yeah, just to find it. Then we got in the line, and it took us about 20 minutes to get around to where touchless ID broke off. So we walked over there, and the agent looked at our boarding passes, and she looked at my friend and said, you can go, looked at me and said, you can't. Your boarding pass does not show the touchless ID symbol. Oh, that's right.
Okay, I didn't know the difference. We hadn't compared boarding passes. We just went to the airport, right? So she sent us back around to the regular TSA line, and it occurred to me, I know that I opted in. So I went back into my app, and it took us about 25 feet to get back to where the touchless ID line broke off. And I just held up my phone and said, see, I did opt in.
And she said, oh, yes, you did.
Chapter 5: Do consumers really want to shop in physical stores again?
So just go under the rope and you can get in the line. We got in the touchless ID line and we were through security in less than 10 minutes. And I was so thankful for Kim Commando because I had never heard of this service and I wanted to say thanks.
Oh, that's so sweet. You know what? How long would it have taken you if you would have stood in that line?
Chapter 6: How has shopping behavior changed in the digital age?
According to news reports, she'd still be in line right now. She probably would be. She could have walked to Houston.
The sign up above the TSA line at that moment said 71 minutes.
And it's anywhere from an hour to three hours. I saw some poor people are waiting in line for like five, six hours.
It's a nightmare right now.
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