Amazon: goes to the supermarket: allow collecting products from 7Eleven

Amazon tries a new collection method: sending products 7Eleven supermarket chain branches and collecting with a digital code 

Amazon not only virtual. Internet retail giant explores a new method to our customers with their purchases: lockers being placed at the branches of the American supermarket chain 7-Eleven. At this point, doing a pilot company in Seattle, Washington. If successful - the service is expected to be deployed throughout the United States next summer. According to Amazon's new idea, when the package reaches its target customer ordered he receive this e - mail about it and a bar code - it will appear in his smartphone. When it is known as lockers supermarket scan the bar code - and then knock on my set code - the door would open the box and he could take the package. The new method, the goal is to facilitate customers booking and unsafe products Amazon have your home or office when it arrives. These, he hoped the company would prefer that he be stored in the mail at the branch nearest supermarket personal residence, open long hours every day. Reporter John Cook Advertise Geekwire that located the branch in which the pilot was in Seattle. "40 lockers occupy much space. There is no switching of the Amazon. Machine bar - codes did not work. Seller could not answer my questions, except that the experiment begins this Friday," he wrote. Cook also published pictures of lockers on site.