EP26 - Shoppy the Supermarket Shopping Robot

What if you never had to set foot in a supermarket again — but still got to pick your own bananas? This week Mark unveils the Shoppy: a robot that rides in your car, deploys itself when you park, and does the whole shop while you sit back with a coffee. You watch through its camera on an app and approve the fruit and veg yourself, and it conveniently forgets the sweets aisle exists.

But here's the twist: maybe you don't own it. Maybe the supermarket does, and you just connect to one as you pull into the car park — which means the store still gets to tempt you with its offers. And when two robots reach for the last discounted chicken? They settle it, naturally, with rock paper scissors.

It looks like Wall-E... but with human hands. Amanda thinks that's deeply creepy. Mark's already working out how to make money from it. And the Judgement Giraffe — who can see over every slow walker but still can't get past them — has some feelings.

Brilliant, or bonkers? You decide.