Global monopoly of technology

Rongcheng.

Ariel Horner from North America has spent his fourth year in this city. He was attracted by the delicious food here. Ariel Horner, who is a foodie and iron, came to China. When I was in China, I threatened to eat a dish of different tastes every day and eat it all over the country within three years.

As a result, three years have passed, and now it is the fourth year. He still hasn't come out in Rongcheng...

People are stupid.

His deeds have also become popular in the country, and some media reported that a foreign guy threatened to eat national food for three years. After three years, he is still "trapped" in the city where he started-Rongcheng.

In the years since Horner came to China, he has also felt the rapid development of this country. From the perspective of a foreigner, it is simply incredible.

This is the exact opposite of when he first came here, he thought this was a backward country, and even in many places, especially urban infrastructure and life, the breath of technological life is everywhere.

For example, high-speed rail, mobile payment, urban logistics, etc., these things that are common to ordinary people in China, and even things that are taken for granted, are very advanced and advanced in the eyes of a foreigner.

The level of development of some large cities is hard to reach even in New York. For example, subway facilities are outdated, and they remain in the last century.

Earlier this morning, Ariel Horner came to the Darunfa Supermarket near Dujiangyan. There are a total of about 30,000 to 40,000 square meters in a 4-story building, and a 3-story building is still under construction. The area is about 10,000 square meters. If it is also used as a store, the entire supermarket will have about 50,000 square meters. This is undoubtedly the largest supermarket in Chengdu.

However, the intermittent business upgrade in the early part of this supermarket still caused some inconvenience to local consumers, but it did not last long.

Today, the supermarket reopened.

Anyone who pays attention to online news knows that this supermarket has now been included in the Bluestar technology system. Ariel Horner was the first person to learn the news on the Internet. This supermarket is LiFi. One of 40 commercial landing trials of technology and the only pilot in Chengdu.

It opened today, and Horner came to experience the so-called "smart supermarket" for the first time.

"Wow, there are so many people today..."

Horner is standing at the gate of the supermarket. He is shooting vlog. He is the UP owner of BV Video Network and Bluestar Video. However, he recently decided to abandon the operation of BV Video Network and switch to full operation of Bluestar Video.

Because, the fans of BV video sites only have more than 10,000 fans, and on Blue Star Video, Horner, as a foreigner, aims to eat all over the country for three years, and the people trapped in Rongcheng have gained popularity in China. Now he has more than 5 million fans on Bluestar Video.

No wonder it will give up operating the BV video network.

"First download a special LiFi APP software..." Horner spoke a little Sichuan-like Chinese. Chinese is not very fluent, and English will suddenly become loud when he is impatient.

"The download is complete, waiting for installation."

Horner looked at the Azure-4 in his hand, installed it in a short while, and then clicked on the APP to enter the application, and he could directly associate it with social accounts such as WeChat or Bluespace for authorization, or email registration.

"Oh Craig Purple Dog!"

Horner chose to use the WeChat account to authorize, and then entered the supermarket.

Opened again today, the popularity of the supermarket is very hot, and there are many people like Horner who come here especially.

After swinging inside for a while, he looked at the phone screen again.

"Wow, there is also a stereo mode?"

Horner looked at the information on the screen of the phone with great curiosity, and decisively switched from the two-dimensional mode to the three-dimensional mode. The information on the screen displayed the information inside the supermarket, which could be described as unobstructed.

The commodity information on the shelves and the live flow of people are all displayed on one screen, and you can clearly see where the flow of people is huge, where the flow of people is sparse, and many other useful information.

There is also the question of whether the goods on the shelves are available. In this way, for the customer, if the goods he wants are out of stock at this time, there is no need to waste time running for nothing, saving this part of the time cost.

The screen shows that there is a huge flow of people in the vegetable, fruit and meat area, but the biggest is the cashier area.

Horner immediately clicked and entered "hot pot delivery material" through the search box built into the application, and soon the artificial intelligence assistant popped up a message prompting him whether he was looking for "hot pot bottom material".

The artificial intelligence technology of this APP is provided by the azure coast. This error correction is trivial. At present, most AI can do it, but the real powerful is the voice recognition ability, and the voice recognition can even "understand" the AI Riel Horner's Chinese voice input is seriously out of tune.

However, Horner did not use voice input. After he clicked to confirm the "hot pot bottom material", the APP immediately jumped to a new page information, just like a map navigation, there is a clear route, and it is based on Huo The travel route that saves time to reach the destination calculated by combining factors such as the current location and the density of pedestrian flow inside the supermarket.

But the actual situation is that the flow of the entire supermarket is disorderly and it is never possible to predict a customer’s next second’s travel route. So this is actually a chaotic system. It may be more than ten seconds later that the original route is not the best. The route is up, and at this time, the APP will optimize and change the route accordingly.

These operations are given the first priority to save customers' time. Of course, customers are also intelligent and autonomous, and there is no lack of clever like Horner, and they don’t need to follow the navigation of the APP.

This kind of index is the accuracy that current map navigation does not have, especially indoors and its degree of intelligence, but this is not the most surprising to Horner.

What really surprised him was that on the path he walked on the screen, the shelf images of the goods along the way were not decorations, but all could provide clear product information. Clicking on a specific product on the shelf would further display the content information of the product. .

Language barriers, foreigners can’t read the local text when looking at the physical products?

It doesn't matter. Now this supermarket has solved this problem. Foreigners like Horner can use the shelf information in the APP and click on related products to display a list of English information. Currently, it supports more than 20 languages.

Horner successfully arrived at the destination according to the route, and faithfully saw the shelves full of hot pot bottoms.

"It's so easy to use this app. With it, I don't have to worry about buying the wrong hot pot base. The user experience is perfect."

Horner put a embarrassed face at the camera when he finished speaking. He couldn't read text messages before and bought all kinds of wrong flavors.

But with this app, it looks very friendly to foreigners like him, because it can support language switching, and the real thing is not understandable. You can always understand the text in your own native language through the APP, right?

Horner didn't really want to buy hot pot ingredients. His purpose of visiting the supermarket today is to experience this new technology application scenario.

Throughout the whole process, he felt like he was playing a game. A dazzling array of information can be retrieved and viewed at will. The APP is like an open game world. More than 95% of the content inside can be clicked to view.

Even click on some real-time corresponding passerby models to see relevant information. The first level information is male and female, but further information requires passers-by to open up privacy authorization. The amount of information depends on the degree of privacy authorization of the object, while clicking on some passersby’s The model can even see some of his social accounts that he found in his self-profile. Don't let this happen, and you can chat privately.

This is a bit showy.

However, these contents are hidden, which requires users to explore by themselves, because the positioning is a smart supermarket, and the customers here are here to buy things, not to socialize. This is clear to the operator.

Forced promotion and putting these contents in front of users will make users feel that this product is bloated.

Therefore, although the actual content is extremely rich, it looks minimalist, simple and easy to use, go straight to the destination, so as to achieve the best user experience.

Another advantage is to give some idle people a lot of fun to explore, boredom can find a lot of fresh elements, improve user stickiness and fun, so as to achieve the corresponding balance.

This can also attract more users' interest through the tap water effect.

"This app appeared three years earlier, and I wouldn't be so miserable in China."

Horner said with emotion to the camera. Even in the fourth year of coming to China, he can speak very authentically and fluently except for some dish names. Normal communication is still difficult. As for reading text messages, he is still confused. ring.

He recognizes a lot of individual words, but they can be combined to represent the meaning. Ariel Horner was silly at first glance. Reading the meaning feels like it makes her decipher the secret... completely ignorant.

There are no worries anymore, at least shopping in this supermarket will no longer have similar worries.

Horner finally bought a lot of snacks and left the supermarket. He was very satisfied with the shopping experience this time. Before, he closed his eyes and looked at the pictures to buy and buy.

Today's shopping experience gave him a completely different feeling. He bought every product after he understood what it was.

The hot popularity in the supermarket, among them there are some market researchers in the industry.

On the third floor of the supermarket, two middle-aged men in suits and leather shoes are watching the behavior of shopping customers. One of them suddenly said: “It can be seen that there are not many people who use it. Most people don’t even know. , Is still dominated by traditional shopping methods."

Another man immediately said: "But this is the trend. Luo Sheng not only allows the new LiFi technology to be commercialized, but more importantly, he has mastered the huge offline entrance. In a few years, it will be a different situation. It's a brand new outlet."

His colleague added again: "I bet that some supermarket merchants overseas must have seen its magic, especially those in regions like South Korea and Japan. Don't forget how many Chinese go abroad to shop for goods every year? If I were a local merchant, I would definitely find the Côte d’Azur to connect them with LiFi technology to make the supermarket smart. This is tantamount to attracting both enterprise-level customers and users. Tsk tsk..."

You know, during the small holiday, the number of domestic tourists traveling abroad is tens of thousands. Many people take advantage of the trip abroad to bring goods. Overseas merchants have to work hard to welcome tourists from China, such as ten On a day like National Day, the island country also follows celebrations, discounts, and promotions, with the purpose of attracting customers from China.

But after all, language barrier is a big problem, and after accessing LiFi, these offline problems can be solved perfectly. Only the LiFi application of the supermarket has a huge room for imagination.

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