7-Eleven rolls out robot deliveries in WeHo

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7-Eleven is getting into the robot delivery game and using West Hollywood as its test site.

The convenience store chain has partnered with Serve Robotics to debut Snack-E, its own version of the semiautonomous delivery bots seen strolling around local sidewalks. Deliveries can be ordered through the store’s 7Now app.

But the early reviews don’t look so good.

“It took 7-Eleven and Serve 40 minutes to deliver me $7 worth of products for $13.58,” wrote Matthew Newberg, founder of hngry.tv, which broke the story. “Choosing a robot vs. a human to deliver it only saved me the cost of any tip. The worst part? I was only .3 miles away, about a six minute walk.”

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JR Birdsong
JR Birdsong
1 year ago

How do the robots gain entry to secure buildings and gated communities? Do the patrons have to go to the sidewalk! Defeats the person of hand-delivery. One of the major pluses of delivery is the person coming to the door handing the purchase to the client. Otherwise NOT worth the delivery fee!

PUPPYBONE
PUPPYBONE
1 year ago

It’s all good until the system blacks out.

WeHo Mary!
WeHo Mary!
1 year ago

Apologies in advance for my awful jokes, I couldn’t decide on just one.

Spoiler Alert: Nika Soon-Shiong is inside. “Thank you for my guaranteed income check…but where are my cigarettes?!”

Spoiler Alert: Ham Shipey is inside. “Good grief!”

My new electric vehicle has arrived!

Spoiler Alert: greeneyedguy is inside. “I’m baaaaack!”

Wake up Weho
Wake up Weho
1 year ago

Robot deliveries, self driving trucks, robot police dogs, virtual meetings forever, forced injections, a generation raised in fear of each other, what could go wrong??

JR Birdsong
JR Birdsong
1 year ago
Reply to  Wake up Weho

EVERYTHING! can and will go wrong. Let the gigantic lawsuits begin!

Up In Smoke
Up In Smoke
1 year ago

I only got six cigarettes left. Hurry up 711 robot, hurry!

Stevie
Stevie
1 year ago

Easy fix to get rid of these off the sidewalks. If you see one flip it on its side to immobilize it, eventually the company will remove them (unless of course the Counciltwits give the Ambassadors something productive to do finally and instruct them to right them).

Christopher Roth
1 year ago
Reply to  Stevie

So to be clear, you want us to flip these on their side so it becomes immobilized correct?

JR Birdsong
JR Birdsong
1 year ago
Reply to  Stevie

sounds good, BUT the only problem is of course, that is called vandalism and carries punishment. LOL!!!! Make sure the device does not include a camera!!!! LOL!!!!

C.R.
C.R.
1 year ago

Usual NIMBYs with grievances for everything patrol checking in, I see. The robots are cute, best of luck to them out there!

BORING
BORING
1 year ago
Reply to  C.R.

2002 called, they want their cute “NIMBY” word back.

C.R.
C.R.
1 year ago
Reply to  BORING

So long as the NIMBYs go back with the word, 2002 can have it all. And everyone will finally be happy! 2002 was the last year everything was at least acceptable, right?

Mazda Brakes
1 year ago

Volvo Brakes

Tom
Tom
1 year ago

So wait forever to pay double, AND you get to go down to the street to collect your order? Yeah, that’s convenience.

JR Birdsong
JR Birdsong
1 year ago
Reply to  Tom

Some folks need delivery: such as Senior Citizens or the ill or infirm. I cannot imagine paying double for the products and services, and still complaining about the price of eggs!!!! LOL!!!!

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Linda Cauthen
1 year ago
Reply to  JR Birdsong

If you want groceries delivered fast, try Yummy.com. If you want a lot of groceries delivered tomorrow, try Amazon Fresh. I really can’t think of anything from 7-Eleven I want to be delivered. It’s the kind of place you run through for a six-pack when you’re in a hurry.

Joe Bologna
Joe Bologna
1 year ago

Yay, that’s just what we need on our sidewalks in West Hollywood, another annoying, dangerous, pointless entity. But, at least it’s not double-parking and tossing on it’s rear signals every five feet of public road. So, I guess there’s that.

Not Crowded Enough
Not Crowded Enough
1 year ago

When is the City going install Robotic Sidewalk Traffic Patrols?

Alan Strasburg
Alan Strasburg
1 year ago

I miss being a pedestrian without having to battle sidewalk space with scooter riders, cyclists, increasing numbers of robots, and OutZones.

Gwen
Gwen
1 year ago
Reply to  Alan Strasburg

Me too!

I♥️WEHO
I♥️WEHO
1 year ago
Reply to  Gwen

Me three!

PUPPYBONE
PUPPYBONE
1 year ago
Reply to  Alan Strasburg

The lock downs will be more common as the CLIMATE CZARS rule when you can venture outdoors.It’ll be odd/even numbering system depending on your MRNA number.

JR Birdsong
JR Birdsong
1 year ago
Reply to  Alan Strasburg

EXACTLY. All very dangerous and super annoying. Outdoor Use Temporary Zones (OUT Zones) provide outdoor space in public rights-of-way for restaurants, shops, and personal care establishments to operate outside. THE biggest issue: why do businesses get to use public property gratis? PLUS there is talk about making them permanent.