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Monoprix customer for two years, I can relate this is no false advertising or demonstration of intent : it works like this in real life.

Monoprix live in a nice niche of upper class consumers living in the center of rich towns. The produits are kind of expensive, but the service is neat.

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This actually looks more useful to me than Amazon's version.

As someone who doesn't own a car and loathes online shopping (for a multitude of reasons) this would be amazing for me!.

Have you checked whether one of your local markets will deliver your order after you checkout? It's quite common in NYC and I know at least one of the local Whole Foods locations in the Boston area does (in addition to the usual Instacart online option).

I agree, but it also seems trivial for Amazon to integrate this into their Amazon Fresh service which is grocery delivery to your house.

When you finish walking around shopping you put your basket/ cart into a waiting slot and some Fresh delivery person grabs it and loads it into their truck. They already have your payment and shipping information too.

Good point. Well, they automated the checkout process (through some "machine learning" "computer vision" black magic that I still don't understand). They might as well have it so that the items in the waiting slot get picked up by a drone that gets it to your place before you even get there.

How does the checkout part work? Obviously you can't just leave your trolley at the checkout - they need your address and need to bill you. Is there a membership card you quickly scan or something like that?

Even Costco requires you to have a membership. I'd imagine you have to sign up. Just like on Amazon.com

Two ways: 1. You pay and leave your delivery informations. 2. You're a regular customer and have an membership account for that.

I can see a lot of people living outside the city using this service because Monoprix is near their workplace. They go after work, ask for delivery, go back home by train, and then are delivered the day after for instance.

You sign up for free. Then you can just leave your trolley (along with your phone number so they find you in their DB) and go home and will pay upon delivery. I used this for some time and it was indeed very convenient

How do you tell them when to deliver the stuff?

Can you take some of the items immediately?

Do checkout lines still occur?

This is still a regular supermarket with cashiers. Your can either :

- leave your trolley to the shipping service and pay everything when your are shipped.

- leave your trolley, pay everything there pick any item your want and be shipped the rest later. (Depending on the crowd, there will likely be checkout line)

- go to the cashier (or an automatic machine), pay there and bring your stuff home yourself. (Checkout line here also)

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