Good point about automated driving making retail shopping easier. And one can hope merchants fix more of their outdated processes.
I too think location was the key to the WF purchase but am less sure what Amazon intends. Bezos tends to experiment with different ideas and then pick the winning ones. Clearly they want to be closer to more affluent customers.
Pharmacy drive in at Walgreens has been so slow for me that I switched to pick it up at the counter in Kroger… My other pickups at Best Buy have been even more unsatisfactory. No doubt Amazon has some ideas to improve this, maybe a pick it out of bin yourself and a more rapid way to pay for it. Maybe cloning Apple Go. Because I won’t go with the “pick it up” model unless it is improved. A lot.
I like BIDU on the basis that they can let Bezos figure out things then clone it. I broke my “no China” rule when I bought some recently.