Corona, California, has become a popular city with a population of 160,000. Corona, CA, is becoming a hub for new businesses and technology. One of the latest additions is Amazon Fresh, a cutting-edge grocery store redefining the shopping experience. Its popularity has led to the city’s becoming more technologically advanced, with well-known and popular stores. A new great addition has been the advanced grocery store named “Amazon Fresh.” It is located at 3941 Bedford Canyon Rd, Corona, CA 92883, in the Bedford Marketplace shopping center that has just been built this past year. This Marketplace has grown with many interesting buildings, such as Starbucks, Crumble, Everbowl, Chase Bank, Carbon Health, and many more.
The most significant new addition to the marketplace is Amazon Fresh, an innovative grocery store launched by the multinational tech giant Amazon. However, Amazon has branched out and invested in a new variation of the company: a grocery store.
When walking into the grocery store, you first notice that it looks just like any other grocery store, although with a little twist. When walking into a grocery store, everyone first tends to grab a grocery cart to begin their shopping journey. Still, when grabbing these grocery carts, you’ll notice something odd or cool: screens. What I mean by screens is right above the handle to push the cart, there is a screen and three scanners, one under the handles and two facing inside the card closer to the deeper part of the cart.
How to Use the Cart:
(Before starting, ensure your Amazon account is linked to a payment method)
Open your Amazon app and go to the opening screen.
On top of the search war, scroll over the different purchase categories options until you see the In-Store Code and tap on it.
Scan the diamond-shaped QR code on the scanner under the handle.
This process is necessary because your Amazon account will now be linked to your grocery cart while shopping.
How to Shop:
Place produce in the cart, then search for the item on the screen to confirm pricing.
Scan packaged items using the barcode scanner attached to the cart.
Watch items appear on your cart’s screen like a self-checkout system.
You go through the first left half of the store, which has a common-looking grocery store look with a produce section. Let’s imagine you want to buy two avocados because you are craving avocado toast, but you ran out this morning; you go over and grab them and put them in a produce bag, although once you place it in the cart. Immediately, a notice comes on your screen of an unknown item in your card, and you have the option to search. You must search for the avocado and press the picture saying its name. The card then weighs the fruit in your cart, and the price is based on it.
Then boom, you add your first grocery; next, you must buy a bag of packaged lemons for the toast. What you have to do next is find the barcode on the bag of lemons and scan them on one of the two scanners in front of the screen leaning in the cart. Once scanned, the lemons will show up on the screen as if you are on self-checkout scanning items, and they slowly start showing up in a line more and more.
This new technological way of shopping changes the way people shop, but the best part of this new technological grocery store is on the right side of the story, which includes a serve-yourself area. This consists of a hot bar with food you can pick and package yourself in containers like a buffet called the Hot Bar and the Cold Bar. The Hot Bar includes soup, macaroni and cheese, mashed potatoes, chicken, rice, and more. The Cold Bar has many different types of pasta, ranging from Caesar salad to many more. My personal favorite has to be the way to pay; instead of going up to a cashier or self-checkout, you take your cart and everything you scanned to a passage with arrows pointing you to the exit where once you pass your cart through, you automatically pay charging your card and signing out of your amazon account. Without a doubt, you can still pay with a self-shot or by the cashier, but this will make shopping more efficient. At last, I have to say that Amazon Fresh might be the future, and next time you’re near the Bradford Marketplace, I’d definitely try this new technological grocery store.
