June 22, 2008

Yes, Ikan, and so kan you! Shopping at the grocery store makes me, I dunno. Psychotic? I want this gizmo RIGHT NOW. (second link is NYT article, may require reg.)
posted by Koko 15 years ago
  • Great for Aspies, hikikomori and agoraphobics.
  • Also goats.
  • But how would you discover new products (President's Choice meatless chicken breasts come to mind, f'rinstance), and also, could you bear to forego counting the items of the person ahead of you in the 15-or-less line? And whaddabout deals, like buy 1 get 5 free? Guess you'd have to keep an eye on flyers.
  • It's the Groceries of the FUTURE! Kinda reminds me of those things they use for gift registries. Maybe I'll register for the whole Newman's Own line.
  • It's good to see someone is finally marketing to the "can't make a shopping list" demographic.
  • The little wink to Pixar™ makes me cynical.
  • I liked this idea so much that I built my own this morning... it worked great until the lead broke on the pencil..
  • I prefer a plan where I simply take my garbage to the grocery store, dump it in a big pile on the counter, and say "replace, please." Cuts out the middle man.
  • Thing is, Tesco already keeps a list of everything I bought before, online or not, and I can select from that list already without having to buy a special machine and scan in barcodes.
  • Well, Snarky McClevertons, I think this is a great idea for keeping your cupboards stocked. When you're up to your neck in baby food and diapers, particularly, but really for anything you need to have on hand at all times. I wouldn't use it for all my grocery shopping, but all the canned and frozen and dry goods, absolutely. So, in short, you are all stupid and should buy us an Ikan.
  • Except for Plegmund, of course, whose supermarket is clearly superior to my own.
  • I guess when you get as old as I am, you've eaten enough meals to know what you need. Every. Damn. Time. begatables fruit milk eggs vegetables fruit milk eggs begatables fruit Other than that, I wander the aisles for inspiration. I can wander at a fast trot, too.
  • I poked around the site, and I may be dumb, but doesn't the "delivery" option require a supermarket in your area that delivers?
  • More or less what Pleg said: I thought all online supermarkets would keep a list of the stuff you buy regularly? I don't see the big advantage of the Ikan.
  • HuronBob: You were taking a pencil for a walk? I'm, confused. =)
  • And I'm, also guilty of, using, excessive punctuation..
  • Couldn't you have waited a year or two and just trained Jack to do this for you instead of getting your feelings stomped on in this thread?
  • Maybe you should just shut your stupid face, stupid dumbface. Yeah, that's right.
  • Nah, Jack'd probably just come home with a cart full of otter-bile scented mustache wax.
  • I just bury all of my garbage in the backyard and three months later, voila! The trash vine bears fresh replacements! IT'S CALLED SUSTAINABILITY YOU WASTEFUL WALDOS!!!!!
  • Some of you are stupid and some of you smell bad and some of you are/do both and this is a stupid thread. And Ikan is a stupid idea that will only be used by stupid people. Stupid groceries. I abhor them.
  • "Grocery items that Peapod doesn’t carry congregate in a special section of your Peapod.com list" Congregating grocery items - sounds suspicious to me. Need more surveillance.
  • For example, if you want something that has no bar code, like fresh fruit, you can press a Voice Reminder button and simply speak it: “Six green bananas.” And of course, the six banamas that arrive are the very type you like, just like if you have spent some time groping fruit at the aisle and choosing it. No, thanks. Guess for the houseridden, or extremely busy people, that's a good option, but can't help fearing that we rely on tech gizmos for our daily tasks too much as it is. Brain gets lazy, you know. And I say this as someone that already needs a specific supermarket list. And that sometimes ends up forgetting it *cough*
  • All you naysayers will be singing a different tune when I'm holding you down and scanning your wrists under my glowing Ikan to read the Mark of the Beast tattooed in your pallid flesh, so that once I've finished with you, a fresh one will be delivered unto me. You will be singing "Let Go of Me You Crazy Bitch or I'll Call the Cops". I don't know that song. Was it one of Pat Boone's? Hold still, sinner.
  • Let go of my you crazy bitch, Or I will call the cops, Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, 'Til the beating stops.
  • *chases the weasel*
  • The idea seems to hinge on the notion that you will only buy things which you have already bought. In that case, why bother with the $400 machine? Just have the things you always buy delivered on a regular schedule.
  • Mmm, that Ikan website smells like freshly re-purposed :CueCat. Two problems with this: 1. I would totally use this service, except that Peapod doesn't deliver anywhere near me. Not even close. 2. From the linked NYT article: "My one disappointment: nearly every item in my test orders came, pointlessly, in its own white plastic bag — every jar of pickles, every package of bacon" BOOO!!!
  • And another dealkiller: "Peapod" For those who don't read, Peapod is the ship that Moby Dick rode on. Do you see the problem there? 'Peapod' sounds like 'peepod'. Now add 'Dick'? See? Now add 'Moby'? How can you handle it? Some foxy chick comes up to me and says "I buy my groceries at the Loblaws Superstore, how 'bout you, sugar?" And I'm forced to say: "I get mine at Peapod's Dick Moby". No way.
  • I think the ship was the Pequod. Not that makes a big difference.
  • > The idea seems to hinge on the notion that you will only buy things which you have already bought. > In that case, why bother with the $400 machine? In fact, the whole thing is one big logic trap. You can never buy the machine unless you've already bought it!
  • "I buy my groceries at the Loblaws Superstore," I can't really take a store called "Loblaws" seriously after Arrested Development had a character called "Bob Loblaw" whose law firm was called "Bob Loblaw Law" and whose blog was "Bob Loblaw Law Blog". But at least it's not as bad as the Midwestern grocery chain called "Piggly Wiggly". I kid you (and your internet traditions) not.
  • A three-hour tour... hehehehe
  • I dunno TUM, that looks like a GreenPease ship, not a whaler.
  • I can't really take a store called "Loblaws" seriously after Arrested Development had a character called "Bob Loblaw" whose law firm was called "Bob Loblaw Law" and whose blog was "Bob Loblaw Law Blog" That foxy grocery chick is going to be pea-ved.
  • ThinksTwice, I take your Piggly Wiggly and raise you Hinky Dinky.
  • ...and I'll even throw in an Oky Doky