Panicking like the Lost in Space Robot

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"What if all the shelves constantly moved?" "You mean like overnight, or...?" "No. CONSTANTLY! And they zigzag across the aisles!" "Absolute genius, sir!"

My local grocery store had one of these robots and was rolling through the aisles offering something that was on sale all the time but it was also an information center and you could ask it information about where to find things. That said, this would be preferable youtu.be/Z1OY28eksdk?...

I'm actually kind of craving frozen banana slices now... The robot works!

I like that it looks like it comes back and shoves the cart out of spite

They should put all of the groceries on robots and make customers chase them around the store to get what they want.

Only if we get baseball bats to beat the robots to pieces with.

The robots get Astromech-like shock prods/saws/etc.

Deal.

That same robot is at a bowling alley in my city and it brings pizzas out from the kitchen. It’s useless. You still need someone to put pizzas on and off of it. Clankers like these only exist because “small business owners” use them to break morale.

I think the generational gap of using AI/stupid robots is if you listen to phone calls on FaceTime and full volume in public or not. That is absolutely the target audience for Teslas and self driving cars. Source: I build cars.

Suspend the customers from ropes and drop the groceries down the side of a climbing wall pachinko style

Customers have it too easy. Time to ramp things up.

I currently work at a grocery store and honestly? i'd be down for that. also someone that works there is plotting to destroy that thing right now. we have a robot in the store and we all hated the damn thing. it tries to escape on a regular basis.

"Whoops, it got away somehow." *robot trundles towards the nearest highway*

heh. I need to suggest that. we'd have to "help" it out the door though.

The BananaBot has a rich interior life.

New Dr Who villains dropped!

What possible benefit is there in me having to chase down a Dalek to get my bananas? I desire for my produce to be where I expect it to be, not roaming the store.

Yelling at a robot I'm having to chase to get my groceries WOULD get me closer to my daily step goal.

Adding excitement to the shopping experience by tapping into our hunter-gatherer roots and making us stalk and trap the wily Banana Dalek for our daily potassium.

Just the other day, I saw one of those mop-bots patrolling a local gas station, and I joked that the next 'advancement' would be ads. Wild it's for bananas, though.

I'm just imagining a continuation of The Critic cartoon series where Jay's manager straps his old book promo standing on a rumba & let's it run loose in a grocery story. [Callback Bg news ticker "...suspect still on the run after fleeing grocery store attack that left 14 shoppers in the hospita...]