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Speaker 1 (00:00):
While that one the Allegreia of ones On here with
the Good Morning Portugal Show livestream and podcast how are
you doing today? We begin, of course with the Borndia
daily bit of news, bit of weather, language and culture
and well being as well here in Portugal. And you
may have seen in that intro sequence there a lot
going on today. Actually, let me just take off this
(00:22):
banner of moment so you can really see what's happening.
We are making an attempt at having some sense of
solidarity and connection with what's going on in Los Angeles,
because we know we have a lot of Americans in
our community, of course, and they may have a direct
connection with LA or they may have family there, or
just feel a sense of hopelessness helplessness about what's going
(00:46):
on over there, because it's truly grim, of course. And
we'll welcome Mike Barton back to the screen this evening
at eight thirty, so yeah, eight thirty. Retired US firefighter,
fire and instigator and.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Paramedic Mike Barton will be joining.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Us at yeah, half past eight, and we'll be attempting
to create some sort of connection and really just to
see if we can help at all.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
And Mike came and helped us out.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
From his experience when we had the Portuguese worldfires of
last year, he's very helpful, certainly from a technical point
of view. If you've got any questions, if it's something
you want to know from that side and from his
experience as a retired firefighter and a paramedic, you can
ask and we can discuss that. But also just want
(01:37):
to be there really for anybody who feels that sense
of helplessness with what's going on, and I think you'd
struggle not to, would you, not seeing what's going on
over there, and rather than do nothing at all, let's see,
let's just be available to people and see if we
can help from eight thirty this evening, so that's there
will be a dream at that time, and then we'll
(02:02):
have our usual Portugal club social hangout from probably around
nine and we can talk more informally, but we'll stream
something from eight thirty and we'll be available. I don't
know if if it's the right word to say socially,
but in a non streaming, live environment, just hanging out
and being together, should anybody need any.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Support or want to talk.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Okay, So that's eight thirty this evening with the very
knowledgeable and very helpful and very supportive Mike Barton and
anybody else actually who might have some particular insight on there.
You may come from La California and you might wish
to make yourself available and we'll do what we can
to help people this evening from eight thirty and yes,
(02:48):
from around nine or thereabouts the usual Portugal Club social
and as if you're a Portugal Club member, where we'll
be going to do a little bit of Portuguese culture
this morning and we will we finally I think getting
to those Portuguese sayings.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Of the day.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
But over at the Portugal Club you'll have the link
for the social which will start at around nine quarter
past nine something like that, after we've had a chat
with Mike and seeing how we can help and support
people who have any concerns to talk about the horrible
wildfire situation in Los Angeles at the moment. Do let
me know how you're doing today. Let's get started then
(03:25):
with the Borndia Daily and a very interesting news item
the largest smart shop in the world opens in later.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yeah, this is a real first for Portugal. We will
do that.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
We'll come back to the weather of course, and we'll
look at some sayings of the day and we'll do
our best to give you a little bit more laughter
medicine in the well being section as a few one
liners which I always find very amusing, so let me
bring onto the screen then this it's very quiet in
the chat as well. This morning we've got to coach
(03:57):
Turner with us Bondia gumpas I fully it's due to
get up to a positively balmy seven degrees today. There's
your weather report from the UK that means one less
layer to where WHOA I'm getting warmer e A warmer
signs a spring yet coach in the UK. And from
a moist mino nobody likes the moistmino to a chili
(04:17):
mino this morning. Morning greetings from a frosty mino.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Happy Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Bit of Tony time man in the minaa, Tony Barboza,
thank you very much, and you'll see his name peppered
all over the Portugal club as well when we go
there in a few minutes.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
After we've had a look at this first news.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
I think this is quite a significant bit of news
for Portugal and I'll bring it onto the screen so
you can see it some reporting by Natasha don in
the Portugal Resident.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
And we'll have a little look at it. Now.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
This is a gathering at a continent born deer shop.
Now born Deer, I think is their little is a
smaller part of their operations, their express shopping.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
If you like.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
The promise here is prepare to be wowed. And this
is how AI is coming into retail. The largest smart
shop in the world opens in Laria. Thanks Natasha for
this from two or three days ago. Twelve thousand square
meter shop offers AI tech that will also cut down
on theft. I mean that's more of a more of
(05:23):
an interest to the retailers themselves, isn't it than the consumers?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
What's in it for us as the consumers? I hear
you ask.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Well, the first continent bondier shop operating with artificial intelligence
technology which allows you to pay for products without having
to register them manually, has opened in Laria.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
It's a shop like unlike.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Any other, says a Luis Martigno, CEO of the company
responsible for the project MC, stressing that oh so the
project is called MC, is it I'm not sure, stressing
that it's the largest intelligence shop in the world. Right,
not only the largest but the largest intelligence shop, not
(06:06):
only the intelligence shop with the largest intelligence shop in
the world, born in a year in which Continent celebrates
his fortieth anniversary as well. The Bondelier Saint Romint shop
was built with an investment of six million euros, so
they're clearly serious about this, of which one point five
million went to sense Tech, a Portuguese startup, so keeping
(06:27):
it in the family in terms of investment and innovation.
The inauguration was attended by the Minister for Youth and Modernization,
Margherie de Balzado Lobsch, who had the opportunity to see
how AI shopping works. What do you think AI shopping?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
And Duel de nort is also a little bit chilly.
I think.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Alaglia, Portugal from juel Anesto and only three this morning
in Pontolima, three degrees.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
It's a tu ve day, isn't it? This morning? Six degrees?
Here I can see on my screen.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
We'll do a little bit more weather analysis a little
bit later on, after we've had a look at this
huge intelligent shop that we're looking at on the screen now.
And I have a water color class today in an
unheated classroom. Not sure about this asade your beautiful dragonfly
picture is. I can see it out of the corner
of my eye and I think it's going to be
(07:23):
part of our set for the moment, John, So thank
you very much.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Thanks again.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I know it wasn't for me necessarily, but I get
the pleasure of looking at your one of your wonderful watercolors.
Good to see John, Wrap up warm. When's that appointment?
Can you remind me when you've got that all important
appointment that you were telling us about just recently? Right
back to the largest smart shop in the world, And
basically it starts off like normal shopping, doesn't everything, But
(07:50):
when people reach the smart checkout tills, they don't need
to take the products out of their baskets for scanning.
This is the interesting bit. I don't know how they
do it, and I'm very keen to know what you
think about this. When you get there, the bill is
displayed immediately. So does that mean that all of these
items have got smart tags on them, chips that are
(08:13):
read by multiple sensors. And then by the time you
get to the checkout.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
All you have to do is pay.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
You still have to pay that's one of the big
weaknesses of this new system is you still have to
pay for your stuff. But anyway, our dream is to
give customers the wow effect. And I'm thinking, is it
wow or is it like what dub which is to
get to the till and not have.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
To do anything. Well, actually that's not quite true, is it,
because you do still have to pay.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
And I imagine as well you have to put your
own stuff in a bag, which is something they don't
pay us for or give us a discount for doing. Right,
if you're scanning and packing your own shopping, surely you
should get discount and really maybe not do that such
that somebody can have a job if they want one
in retail as well. From day one one, says Luis Multino,
(09:03):
we have believed in a hybrid shop because we want
the customer experience to be completely normal and calm. He said,
with the added twist at the end of the wow effect.
I don't know, going to the supermarket is not really
normal and calm and talking of well, these these are
(09:26):
the risks I think. I don't think the watercolor class
has a live model. John will confirm Will deny that
shrinkage is quite common. Do you say that from the
point of view an artist or as a model? Peter Bleach,
good morning to you this morning. And if we can
take a little bit of a a right hand or
(09:46):
is this left field? This is left field, isn't it
if we take a little bit of a turn from
this story? But we'll stay in supermarkets. John Rooney was
disgusted to see that barely over Christmas and the shelves
are full of Valentine's stuff already.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Look at that.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
The Valentine's gifts are already stacking up in the supermarket.
And I don't know if in that particular supermarket you
can just pick up a couple of Valentine's gifts, get
to the checkout and have the wow factor that's being
talked about here where it will magically tell you how
much you owe.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Let's come back to that article.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Then and the wow effect then that to Luish multineus
talking about. Of course, if shoppers are not keen on
the wow effect, it's.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
A bit shaming, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Eh. If you want to be boring and old fashioned,
you can just go over there and that you can
opt for a till with a human being.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Oh really? On the checkout line.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
The shop, with an area of twelve hundred square meters,
has six smart checkouts checkouts and two manual ones. How big,
roughly speaking, is twelve hundred square meters? Because somebody giving
me a not a sort of metric imperial translation, but
how big is that? Spatially? I have no idea what
twelve hundred square meters is like? Are we commenting on this, Hugh,
(11:05):
good morning? I imagine Hugh you're not a fan of
the most robotic AI driven retail experiences. I don't know why.
And oh yeah, thank you, John. Oh it's tomorrow, great okay,
so hopefully you'll have a little bit of relief or
understanding with what's going on Tomorrow's well though today has
been good so far.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
However, I haven't been speaking or eating yet.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
This, my goodness, can imagine that finding out how your
day is going to be when you start to speak
or eat. Let me did the speaking for the moment, John,
You take it easy, Bondie Gumbers Folice test told this
commestion du bank from James as well. Good morning you
sleepy heads.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Excuse me. They are scrapping most self service tills in
the UK.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Theft stuffing and the tills simply not working have made
them uneconomical. That's interesting, just as Starma is trying to
roll our ai. Yeah, he's making a big deal of
that yesterday, wasn't he and Valentine's gifts?
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Yeah, as well though, of mops rooms and do you
try it? No? No, you try it? Okay?
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Back Tileria, the twelve hundred square meter shop with its
six smart checkouts and two manual ones. You see, call
it smart and it's the beginning of a conversation. Isn't
it a word? A word for the sense technology? It
has the ability to distinguish twelve hundred, sorry, twelve thousand
(12:24):
different product references. Says that should do it, says sense
Ceo Vashko Portugal?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
What a name?
Speaker 1 (12:31):
He was born to do great things? Or once he
was named he had a certain future ahead of him,
didn't he? With his parents calling him Vashko and the
family name Portugal? And by its nature reduces the chances
of theft as all products collected by customers are recorded
and if they are not paid for on the way out,
they will be detected. Is this sounding like shops with
(12:53):
less staff and less requirement for security guards? This is
the question from Natasha Apparently not uish. Multino has stressed
that the group is one of the largest private employers
in Portugal.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
And means to stay that way.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
MC oh I see MC is the I guess the
Continent group, is it not, which, of course I believe
owns Waton and Wells the Chemists as well and Mode
the outfitters. MC employs forty four thousand people and this
shop has twenty eight new colleagues.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
He told reports.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
We don't even want to reduce the social interactions we
have with our customers. The fact that it's being talked
about at all is worrying, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
We don't want to reduce the social interactions we have
with our customers. As long as it ads to the
bottom line, we're fine with that.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
But we believe that digital is itself also a facilitator
of our Do you want to be digitally facilitated at
the supermarket? I'm not sure I do also a facilitator
of our business. MC has seventeen shops in the Liarrier
district and employees, and twenty nine over there. Props to
Zap a loser for the original material that Natasha donn
(14:03):
All are translated and put together for us that they're
for that article largest smart shop.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
In the world.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
In the world, people, the largest smart shop in the
world opens in the la there.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Do you want? Are you you know? How it is
when a new.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Supermarket opens in I guess that's what a twelve hundred
square meter supermarket looks like, happy people photo opportunity doesn't
look like as a single shopper insight, it just looks
like a lot very pleased with themselves, retailers and politicians
right there.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Yeah, but do you you know when when whenever there's
a new.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Supermarket opens in my district, and that hasn't happened for
a while. To be fair, I'm thinking back to Murker
Donna opening up, and I was thinking to myself, what
is the fuss about this?
Speaker 2 (14:49):
This Murka Donnas.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
We've got enough supermarkets and now this packed every day
is packed.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
So it just seems, however many supermarkets you're introduced cincenario, people.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Want to go to them, and will they want to
go to this one, which is a very special, smart,
intelligent and the largest smart and intelligent supermarket in the world,
which we have in my.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
District here in Ledia.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
I don't feel like I want to want to make
the journey over there, and I suspect this sort of
technology is heading our way whether we like it or not.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
That's the sexiest, is it? I don't know so.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Mister es quite likes the cut of this supermarkets jib
Athens is good for Valentine's Day. They have large plastic
noisy sticks you whack anyone you fancy with or just everyone. Okay,
I did get Pam a vacuum once for her birthday?
Speaker 2 (15:42):
How did that go? John?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
And it looks like Costco to James there. Nobody seems
especially excited among the gumpers this morning when it comes
to this big, smart, intelligent supermarkets. But I wanted to
share that with you as a Portuguese first as well.
Mops can make a fantastic hair replacement. Oh yes, I
hadn't thought that.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
No one would.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
No one would even notice, would they? If I turn
up to the next meet up with a mop on
my head, I might have to diet a darker color
pete to be fair? Or am I using one of
those VI leader ones with strands of jcloth So useful
and convincing, especially with perms coming back into fashion.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Just an idea for missus. You can tell her about that, Pete.
And you're right, perms are coming back, aren't they? Who knew?
If it's anything like the first smart car? It isn't smart?
Forty years ago? What was it called? What was the
scene clear see five? Was it called? Didn't that come
out forty years ago? Almost to the day? Show that
Valentine's Day display? Again?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
I want some other ideas. Okay, of course, my pleasure.
You're very welcome, John. Let's go back then to the
shelves that are full of Valentine's gifts, not even Christmas
is barely out of the frame, and here they are.
The supermarket is taking advantage with their next range of
merchandising mops buckets.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Oh a step as well. They're a broom.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
The brooms self assembly brooms, so it's an intelligence test
as well as a broom there.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Yeah, very good. I'm not sure what's going on on the.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Top shelf there, but some quite good prices as well,
if if I can make those out correctly, they're so
you're very welcome, as you honest I do. Let us
know how that goes, right,
While that one the Allegreia of ones On here with
the Good Morning Portugal Show livestream and podcast how are
you doing today? We begin, of course with the Borndia
daily bit of news, bit of weather, language and culture
and well being as well here in Portugal. And you
may have seen in that intro sequence there a lot
going on today. Actually, let me just take off this
(00:22):
banner of moment so you can really see what's happening.
We are making an attempt at having some sense of
solidarity and connection with what's going on in Los Angeles,
because we know we have a lot of Americans in
our community, of course, and they may have a direct
connection with LA or they may have family there, or
just feel a sense of hopelessness helplessness about what's going
(00:46):
on over there, because it's truly grim, of course. And
we'll welcome Mike Barton back to the screen this evening
at eight thirty, so yeah, eight thirty. Retired US firefighter,
fire and instigator and.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Paramedic Mike Barton will be joining.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Us at yeah, half past eight, and we'll be attempting
to create some sort of connection and really just to
see if we can help at all.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
And Mike came and helped us out.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
From his experience when we had the Portuguese worldfires of
last year, he's very helpful, certainly from a technical point
of view. If you've got any questions, if it's something
you want to know from that side and from his
experience as a retired firefighter and a paramedic, you can
ask and we can discuss that. But also just want
(01:37):
to be there really for anybody who feels that sense
of helplessness with what's going on, and I think you'd
struggle not to, would you, not seeing what's going on
over there, and rather than do nothing at all, let's see,
let's just be available to people and see if we
can help from eight thirty this evening, so that's there
will be a dream at that time, and then we'll
(02:02):
have our usual Portugal club social hangout from probably around
nine and we can talk more informally, but we'll stream
something from eight thirty and we'll be available. I don't
know if if it's the right word to say socially,
but in a non streaming, live environment, just hanging out
and being together, should anybody need any.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Support or want to talk.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Okay, So that's eight thirty this evening with the very
knowledgeable and very helpful and very supportive Mike Barton and
anybody else actually who might have some particular insight on there.
You may come from La California and you might wish
to make yourself available and we'll do what we can
to help people this evening from eight thirty and yes,
(02:48):
from around nine or thereabouts the usual Portugal Club social
and as if you're a Portugal Club member, where we'll
be going to do a little bit of Portuguese culture
this morning and we will we finally I think getting
to those Portuguese sayings.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Of the day.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
But over at the Portugal Club you'll have the link
for the social which will start at around nine quarter
past nine something like that, after we've had a chat
with Mike and seeing how we can help and support
people who have any concerns to talk about the horrible
wildfire situation in Los Angeles at the moment. Do let
me know how you're doing today. Let's get started then
(03:25):
with the Borndia Daily and a very interesting news item
the largest smart shop in the world opens in later.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yeah, this is a real first for Portugal. We will
do that.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
We'll come back to the weather of course, and we'll
look at some sayings of the day and we'll do
our best to give you a little bit more laughter
medicine in the well being section as a few one
liners which I always find very amusing, so let me
bring onto the screen then this it's very quiet in
the chat as well. This morning we've got to coach
(03:57):
Turner with us Bondia gumpas I fully it's due to
get up to a positively balmy seven degrees today. There's
your weather report from the UK that means one less
layer to where WHOA I'm getting warmer e A warmer
signs a spring yet coach in the UK. And from
a moist mino nobody likes the moistmino to a chili
(04:17):
mino this morning. Morning greetings from a frosty mino.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Happy Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Bit of Tony time man in the minaa, Tony Barboza,
thank you very much, and you'll see his name peppered
all over the Portugal club as well when we go
there in a few minutes.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
After we've had a look at this first news.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
I think this is quite a significant bit of news
for Portugal and I'll bring it onto the screen so
you can see it some reporting by Natasha don in
the Portugal Resident.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
And we'll have a little look at it. Now.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
This is a gathering at a continent born deer shop.
Now born Deer, I think is their little is a
smaller part of their operations, their express shopping.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
If you like.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
The promise here is prepare to be wowed. And this
is how AI is coming into retail. The largest smart
shop in the world opens in Laria. Thanks Natasha for
this from two or three days ago. Twelve thousand square
meter shop offers AI tech that will also cut down
on theft. I mean that's more of a more of
(05:23):
an interest to the retailers themselves, isn't it than the consumers?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
What's in it for us as the consumers? I hear
you ask.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Well, the first continent bondier shop operating with artificial intelligence
technology which allows you to pay for products without having
to register them manually, has opened in Laria.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
It's a shop like unlike.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Any other, says a Luis Martigno, CEO of the company
responsible for the project MC, stressing that oh so the
project is called MC, is it I'm not sure, stressing
that it's the largest intelligence shop in the world. Right,
not only the largest but the largest intelligence shop, not
(06:06):
only the intelligence shop with the largest intelligence shop in
the world, born in a year in which Continent celebrates
his fortieth anniversary as well. The Bondelier Saint Romint shop
was built with an investment of six million euros, so
they're clearly serious about this, of which one point five
million went to sense Tech, a Portuguese startup, so keeping
(06:27):
it in the family in terms of investment and innovation.
The inauguration was attended by the Minister for Youth and Modernization,
Margherie de Balzado Lobsch, who had the opportunity to see
how AI shopping works. What do you think AI shopping?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
And Duel de nort is also a little bit chilly.
I think.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Alaglia, Portugal from juel Anesto and only three this morning
in Pontolima, three degrees.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
It's a tu ve day, isn't it? This morning? Six degrees?
Here I can see on my screen.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
We'll do a little bit more weather analysis a little
bit later on, after we've had a look at this
huge intelligent shop that we're looking at on the screen now.
And I have a water color class today in an
unheated classroom. Not sure about this asade your beautiful dragonfly
picture is. I can see it out of the corner
of my eye and I think it's going to be
(07:23):
part of our set for the moment, John, So thank
you very much.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Thanks again.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I know it wasn't for me necessarily, but I get
the pleasure of looking at your one of your wonderful watercolors.
Good to see John, Wrap up warm. When's that appointment?
Can you remind me when you've got that all important
appointment that you were telling us about just recently? Right
back to the largest smart shop in the world, And
basically it starts off like normal shopping, doesn't everything, But
(07:50):
when people reach the smart checkout tills, they don't need
to take the products out of their baskets for scanning.
This is the interesting bit. I don't know how they
do it, and I'm very keen to know what you
think about this. When you get there, the bill is
displayed immediately. So does that mean that all of these
items have got smart tags on them, chips that are
(08:13):
read by multiple sensors. And then by the time you
get to the checkout.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
All you have to do is pay.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
You still have to pay that's one of the big
weaknesses of this new system is you still have to
pay for your stuff. But anyway, our dream is to
give customers the wow effect. And I'm thinking, is it
wow or is it like what dub which is to
get to the till and not have.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
To do anything. Well, actually that's not quite true, is it,
because you do still have to pay.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
And I imagine as well you have to put your
own stuff in a bag, which is something they don't
pay us for or give us a discount for doing. Right,
if you're scanning and packing your own shopping, surely you
should get discount and really maybe not do that such
that somebody can have a job if they want one
in retail as well. From day one one, says Luis Multino,
(09:03):
we have believed in a hybrid shop because we want
the customer experience to be completely normal and calm. He said,
with the added twist at the end of the wow effect.
I don't know, going to the supermarket is not really
normal and calm and talking of well, these these are
(09:26):
the risks I think. I don't think the watercolor class
has a live model. John will confirm Will deny that
shrinkage is quite common. Do you say that from the
point of view an artist or as a model? Peter Bleach,
good morning to you this morning. And if we can
take a little bit of a a right hand or
(09:46):
is this left field? This is left field, isn't it
if we take a little bit of a turn from
this story? But we'll stay in supermarkets. John Rooney was
disgusted to see that barely over Christmas and the shelves
are full of Valentine's stuff already.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Look at that.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
The Valentine's gifts are already stacking up in the supermarket.
And I don't know if in that particular supermarket you
can just pick up a couple of Valentine's gifts, get
to the checkout and have the wow factor that's being
talked about here where it will magically tell you how
much you owe.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Let's come back to that article.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Then and the wow effect then that to Luish multineus
talking about. Of course, if shoppers are not keen on
the wow effect, it's.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
A bit shaming, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Eh. If you want to be boring and old fashioned,
you can just go over there and that you can
opt for a till with a human being.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Oh really? On the checkout line.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
The shop, with an area of twelve hundred square meters,
has six smart checkouts checkouts and two manual ones. How big,
roughly speaking, is twelve hundred square meters? Because somebody giving
me a not a sort of metric imperial translation, but
how big is that? Spatially? I have no idea what
twelve hundred square meters is like? Are we commenting on this, Hugh,
(11:05):
good morning? I imagine Hugh you're not a fan of
the most robotic AI driven retail experiences. I don't know why.
And oh yeah, thank you, John. Oh it's tomorrow, great okay,
so hopefully you'll have a little bit of relief or
understanding with what's going on Tomorrow's well though today has
been good so far.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
However, I haven't been speaking or eating yet.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
This, my goodness, can imagine that finding out how your
day is going to be when you start to speak
or eat. Let me did the speaking for the moment, John,
You take it easy, Bondie Gumbers Folice test told this
commestion du bank from James as well. Good morning you
sleepy heads.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Excuse me. They are scrapping most self service tills in
the UK.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Theft stuffing and the tills simply not working have made
them uneconomical. That's interesting, just as Starma is trying to
roll our ai. Yeah, he's making a big deal of
that yesterday, wasn't he and Valentine's gifts?
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Yeah, as well though, of mops rooms and do you
try it? No? No, you try it? Okay?
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Back Tileria, the twelve hundred square meter shop with its
six smart checkouts and two manual ones. You see, call
it smart and it's the beginning of a conversation. Isn't
it a word? A word for the sense technology? It
has the ability to distinguish twelve hundred, sorry, twelve thousand
(12:24):
different product references. Says that should do it, says sense
Ceo Vashko Portugal?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
What a name?
Speaker 1 (12:31):
He was born to do great things? Or once he
was named he had a certain future ahead of him,
didn't he? With his parents calling him Vashko and the
family name Portugal? And by its nature reduces the chances
of theft as all products collected by customers are recorded
and if they are not paid for on the way out,
they will be detected. Is this sounding like shops with
(12:53):
less staff and less requirement for security guards? This is
the question from Natasha Apparently not uish. Multino has stressed
that the group is one of the largest private employers
in Portugal.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
And means to stay that way.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
MC oh I see MC is the I guess the
Continent group, is it not, which, of course I believe
owns Waton and Wells the Chemists as well and Mode
the outfitters. MC employs forty four thousand people and this
shop has twenty eight new colleagues.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
He told reports.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
We don't even want to reduce the social interactions we
have with our customers. The fact that it's being talked
about at all is worrying, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
We don't want to reduce the social interactions we have
with our customers. As long as it ads to the
bottom line, we're fine with that.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
But we believe that digital is itself also a facilitator
of our Do you want to be digitally facilitated at
the supermarket? I'm not sure I do also a facilitator
of our business. MC has seventeen shops in the Liarrier
district and employees, and twenty nine over there. Props to
Zap a loser for the original material that Natasha donn
(14:03):
All are translated and put together for us that they're
for that article largest smart shop.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
In the world.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
In the world, people, the largest smart shop in the
world opens in the la there.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Do you want? Are you you know? How it is
when a new.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Supermarket opens in I guess that's what a twelve hundred
square meter supermarket looks like, happy people photo opportunity doesn't
look like as a single shopper insight, it just looks
like a lot very pleased with themselves, retailers and politicians
right there.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Yeah, but do you you know when when whenever there's
a new.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Supermarket opens in my district, and that hasn't happened for
a while. To be fair, I'm thinking back to Murker
Donna opening up, and I was thinking to myself, what
is the fuss about this?
Speaker 2 (14:49):
This Murka Donnas.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
We've got enough supermarkets and now this packed every day
is packed.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
So it just seems, however many supermarkets you're introduced cincenario, people.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Want to go to them, and will they want to
go to this one, which is a very special, smart,
intelligent and the largest smart and intelligent supermarket in the world,
which we have in my.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
District here in Ledia.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
I don't feel like I want to want to make
the journey over there, and I suspect this sort of
technology is heading our way whether we like it or not.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
That's the sexiest, is it? I don't know so.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Mister es quite likes the cut of this supermarkets jib
Athens is good for Valentine's Day. They have large plastic
noisy sticks you whack anyone you fancy with or just everyone. Okay,
I did get Pam a vacuum once for her birthday?
Speaker 2 (15:42):
How did that go? John?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
And it looks like Costco to James there. Nobody seems
especially excited among the gumpers this morning when it comes
to this big, smart, intelligent supermarkets. But I wanted to
share that with you as a Portuguese first as well.
Mops can make a fantastic hair replacement. Oh yes, I
hadn't thought that.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
No one would.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
No one would even notice, would they? If I turn
up to the next meet up with a mop on
my head, I might have to diet a darker color
pete to be fair? Or am I using one of
those VI leader ones with strands of jcloth So useful
and convincing, especially with perms coming back into fashion.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Just an idea for missus. You can tell her about that, Pete.
And you're right, perms are coming back, aren't they? Who knew?
If it's anything like the first smart car? It isn't smart?
Forty years ago? What was it called? What was the
scene clear see five? Was it called? Didn't that come
out forty years ago? Almost to the day? Show that
Valentine's Day display? Again?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
I want some other ideas. Okay, of course, my pleasure.
You're very welcome, John. Let's go back then to the
shelves that are full of Valentine's gifts, not even Christmas
is barely out of the frame, and here they are.
The supermarket is taking advantage with their next range of
merchandising mops buckets.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Oh a step as well. They're a broom.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
The brooms self assembly brooms, so it's an intelligence test
as well as a broom there.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Yeah, very good. I'm not sure what's going on on the.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Top shelf there, but some quite good prices as well,
if if I can make those out correctly, they're so
you're very welcome, as you honest I do. Let us
know how that goes, right,
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