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Yea, you download the app and add in your payment method. Go in and shop, fill up your bags and walk out. Purchase automatically calculated. No cashiers or registers. I like the convenience of it but also concerned about the digital prison situation as well.
Apps apps apps. I hated the word from when they first started trying to normalise it. It's training to condition you to not need or want to leave your 15m city Pod. Why bother going to a shop when there'll be no physical interaction with another human and you can achieve the end result at home.
This reminds me of paying the mortgage online. My wife liked it because of the "convenience" (I have come to detest this word). That is, until we received a huge package from the bank. Inside it was a 'foreclosure notice'. WTH? My wife called the bank to find out what this was all about. After hours of waiting on the phone and be transferred numerous times, we found out she entered the wrong amount for paying the mortgage. It was a typo error that shorted the bank 50 dollars. It took her two full days to find a sympathetic ear to correct this problem. There's no doubt in my mind they intended to foreclose on us.
This leads me to when I use to pay the mortgage. I used the snail mail system, better known as the USPS system. The bank would send out a billing in the mail. I would go out to the mailbox and fetch the mail. I then would return to the house and open it, read it, and use a high-lighter to mark the date due. The billing would then go on the refrigerator door held there by a powerful neodymium-iron-boron (NIB) magnet. Every time I got something to eat from the frig, I was reminded of that important billing there. I would always mail payment with a personal check 3-5 days before the due date. There is a 2-week grace period, so my payment always was paid on time.
I actually liked this method of paying. The physical activity and involvement gave me a sense of accomplishment. Contrary to this, my wife fell into the honey trap of 'convenience'. That 'convenience' ended up being all too often 'last minute'. That 'last minute' became paying it on the last day of the grace period. As a result, one simple typo nearly cost us the house. She shed many tears in those two days trying to straighten out the mess she made for herself. Fortunately, she was able to succeed. I would have failed in this regard.
Yes, I detest the word 'convenience'. Too often it is a lure that also requires those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety (convenience), deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Just curious - why wouldn't you just have it automatically pay the same amount each month? Why would you log in each month and type in an amount? Where is the convenience of that?
It may have been before that was possible. My wife was paying the mortgage. I liked the snail-mail method of actually "licking" stamps. I used a wet sponge because I never trusted what was in the glue. Anyway to me, there was a greater sense of getting the job done...... To hell with 'convenience'. That's my point. It is the lead in to the 'Beast System'. You have to 'volunteer' in order to be sentenced to hell. It doesn't get any clearer than that.
I always resist...I hate it too
True. But I go to the grocery to shop, get my items and leave. It's not a social club.
Oh I like human interaction, with people that I actually like. Just not 400 pounders clogging up the aisle with 4 screaming kids running around. Have my list and store layout map. I'm there for a very specific reason....to get in and out as fast as possible. I hate shopping and the grocery is the absolute worst.
I also tend to hate "apps" as well.
Programs. Executables. "Apps" came out of nowhere and was jarring -- and I wasn't even that old when I noticed it!
Applications!
Convenience is how they will sell you on being chipped, you know, like dogs and cats have been for years. You game?
How do we know we are not already chipped some how or some way? Not that I am advocating for it, but who knows any more.
We don't and not knowing means you didn't accept the mark willingly.
Everything online including web browsing, email...everything is tracked and tied back to you, so there's that already.
It is the Beast System. All it takes is signing up for it.....Why? Because it is convenient.
Also, it's not like they're getting rid of regular Aldi's, this is just a shop n go version. If you don't like it you can shop elsewhere.
I'm ok with it existing. I wouldn't use it, but I know people who would like it.
How is it more convenient to have to find an app, download it, verify it, add payment method, and hope it never screws up? What if you forget your phone? What if your phone is dead?
You are only lying to yourself if you think it's more convenient then paying with a card you've always had....