I would love to have this solution for every product in my fridge. Even my entire kitchen.
Re-ordering things when you're actually almost out of them as opposed to on a fixed schedule seems ideal from the consumer's perspective. To me this is a better solution to the problem Amazon tried to solve with Dash buttons.
I could imagine living in a future world where my grocery list is dynamically defined as the products e.g., below 25% of their original weight.
Yup, I'm completely on board for a way to monitor my consumable items.
The re-ordering part is a bonus, but simply knowing what I'm nearly out of in real time would be very, very, helpful.
I imagine this is more true of people with kids, who are not naturally inclined to track and communicate this information. They will, however, chew you out when you return from the store without more of the cereal that they have just finished. ;)
Yes, I can see it now. So, we have a bunch of millennials that have no idea how to manage a pantry because they only eat at their company cafeterias or dine at restaurants. Instead of thinking "gee I'm almost out of coffee I'll go buy some", they get a bunch of wifi scales. And then a better one with more features comes out, and the old ones get shipped to SE asia so a 5 year old can try to recover some recyclables from it. Then the company that makes it goes bankrupt and every scale becomes useless. And more electronic waste gets shipped to the 3rd world.
Not sure that I agree with the series of events leading to your conclusion, but automating pantry management is really appealing to me for convenience. It seems like something better left to automation than spending human cycles on.
I think of it as the "declarative kitchen" like how we have declarative infrastructure or declarative languages. Now if only I could declare some brownies...
Re-ordering things when you're actually almost out of them as opposed to on a fixed schedule seems ideal from the consumer's perspective. To me this is a better solution to the problem Amazon tried to solve with Dash buttons.
I could imagine living in a future world where my grocery list is dynamically defined as the products e.g., below 25% of their original weight.
I am excited to try it.