this post was submitted on 01 May 2025
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3 animations, choc with metaphors on the wastes of car infrastructure and the robbing of choice.

I do not know if the author intended for these to be dystopic or utopic, I have a hunch they are playing both games. They try to improve supermarket visit efficiency by expanding the use of cars at the cost of everything else.

Concept 1 (main link): Indoor drive-through shopping. . Less than a few percent of floor space is actual store, the rest is road. The store sprawls across multiple levels because there is no longer any safe space for humans to work or walk in the customer areas.

There is also no basket or trolley to store things in and change your mind. You grab an item and within seconds one of the approximately (by my count) 100 cashiers scans it and bags it. Made a mistake? Just buy your way out of it, you're holding valuable customers up, tut tut.

Concept 2: Drive-through shopping in private. How awfully lonely. A car keeps you apart from others even when you're not in it. Who wants do be vulnerable when not behind the armour of steel and glass? All aspects of life should be like being in a car.

Concept 3: Outdoor drive-through shopping.. After all of this driving we realised we're missing our connection with the outdoor world. Nature.

We could go camping. Shopping outside is a more practical compromise.

Also all the employees were getting hypoxiated from concept 1, so we decided to hide them underground. Now they are kept alert by road debris falling on the pre-sliced kiwifruit trays.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

These are so wild that I'm choosing to believe they're satire. Though, I do appreciate the creativity and animation.