McD's app needs care

2oldman wrote:

Belgique wrote:
..walk around the store, get your stuff, scan, pay from your phone, walk out the door. No lines. EVIL! :-)

LOL.

A few years ago IBM ran an ad showing this shady looking character putting stuff in his pockets then walking out of the store. A security guard stopped him and said "you forgot your receipt."

Wonder if we'll ever see that.

With the Sam's app you have to show the receipt that's on your phone at the checkout door just the same as a paper receipt.
As to the product in pockets, Amazon has already built a store with no check out. You just load your products in your shopping bag and walk out. You get charged for whatever you took.

Belgique wrote:
Wait until someone posts about the Walmart and Sams Scan and Go. You walk around the store, get your stuff, scan, pay from your phone, walk out the door. No lines. EVIL! :-)

I was in one of these Walmart stores recently. All the shopping carts had a holder to set your smartphone into. I don't know how they handle items that need to be weighed such as bananas.

I needed to pick up an online order. There was a giant vending machine as you walk into the store. You call up your order on your smartphone, scan the barcode, and it spits out your merchandise.

Belgique wrote:
..walk around the store, get your stuff, scan, pay from your phone, walk out the door. No lines. EVIL! :-)

LOL.

A few years ago IBM ran an ad showing this shady looking character putting stuff in his pockets then walking out of the store. A security guard stopped him and said "you forgot your receipt."

Wonder if we'll ever see that.

Belgique wrote:
Wait until someone posts about the Walmart and Sams Scan and Go. You walk around the store, get your stuff, scan, pay from your phone, walk out the door. No lines. EVIL! :-)

^^^^^^^^^^One of the greatest apps ever!!^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

They need to make an app that detects when you eat one of their burgers, then constantly updates you with the location of the nearest unoccupied toilet. McDonalds, cleaning colons like a white tornado since 1940.

Wait until someone posts about the Walmart and Sams Scan and Go. You walk around the store, get your stuff, scan, pay from your phone, walk out the door. No lines. EVIL! :-)

Of course the key to all technology is.. humans.

I set up mobile payment in the Burger King app via Paypal -they don't have mobile ordering. Went to counter, ordered food, punched a few buttons and a code came up and said "present this code to the cashier." Well, she gave me the blank stare like I'd just spoken Chinese.

She got a boss lady who didn't really know either as I guess nobody uses that at this store. It's a simple code she just had to type in and voila, meal paid for. She even called me by my name.

2oldman wrote:

fj12ryder wrote:

Probably should have used a comma instead of a period, and made one sentence instead of adding the short one.

Or a hyphen.

:)

Farmboy666 wrote:

Bill.Satellite wrote:
You are angry that McDonald's make an app? That's funny. No one said you have to use it. Maybe take your blood pressure meds and turn off your phone before you head out to McDonald's!
Think about all the things you used to have to wait in line to do and there is now technology that allows you to avoid these lines. It's the future but if you don't like it, don't use it. I plan to order my breakfast while in my underwear this morning and tell them I want to pick it up in 30 minutes. It will be paid for and available for me shortly after arrival even if there are 10 folks in line when I arrive.
Yep, I can see where that would make you mad. Oh yeah, my drink will be free because I used the app.

Knowing the high quality they put into everything my guess is they make it when you order and it sits under a heat lamp for 30 minutes waiting for you to pick it up, sounds tasty. If your sitting around the house in your underwear why don't you just fry an egg.

OK, I may have stretched the truth a bit about the ordering process. You make the order in your underwear and when you arrive you push the "I have arrived" button and they make your order and process the payment. It's actually pretty tasty and now some of the locations are doing the scrambled eggs with fresh cracked eggs instead of the homogenized type but both are real egg. Unless you are from NJ, the bagels are good and the biscuits are good as well. There's a variety of products and some like them and some don't. That's OK, too. Breakfast this morning was scrambled eggs, sausage biscuit, large soft drink for $2.50. Adding in a senior coffee for Janet added a whopping $0.35 and this coffee is better than just about any coffee stand out there. You can't be the price and the quality of food is actually quite good. YMMV!

fj12ryder wrote:

Probably should have used a comma instead of a period, and made one sentence instead of adding the short one.

Or a hyphen.