After Best Buy switched to contactless curbside pickup in light of the coronavirus pandemic, at least one location is getting creative with its approach to it.
In a now-viral TikTok video, a Best Buy shopping basket holding a customer’s purchased items can be seen making its way to the customer’s vehicle via the top of a small robot car.
At least one other social media video corroborates this approach. In that video, as seen on Twitter, a Best Buy employee drops the purchased items into the basket and uses a remote control to maneuver the robot car to the customer’s car. The customer doesn’t even have to get out of the vehicle; they simply open the car door to grab their purchase from the basket.
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Best Buy announced on March 22 that it would be adding curbside pickup to all of its stores in the nation after temporarily closing. There has reportedly been a surge in orders for home office equipment due to the number of people now working from home. Before switching exclusively to contactless curbside pickup, the company began limiting in-store customers to 10 to 15 at a time. It made that switch after a Vice report detailed the company’s alleged mishandling of the pandemic.
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