{"id":652597,"date":"2013-04-16T09:44:06","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T13:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=225182"},"modified":"2013-04-16T09:44:06","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T13:44:06","slug":"google-puts-a-bufferbox-locker-in-a-san-francisco-coffee-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/652597","title":{"rendered":"Google Puts A BufferBox Locker In A San Francisco Coffee Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in November, news came out that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/google-acquires-bufferbox-locker-service-2012-11\">Google acquired BufferBox<\/a>, a locker service for people receiving packages from online retailers. <\/p>\n<p>A Google spokesperson <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2012\/11\/30\/google-acquires-waterloo-based-e-commerce-startup-amazon-locker-competitor-and-yc-graduate-bufferbox\">said at the time<\/a>, &#8220;We want to remove as much friction as possible from the shopping experience, while helping consumers save time and money, and we think the BufferBox team has a lot of great ideas around how to do that\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, it looks like they&#8217;re getting started. BufferBox co-founder Mike McCauley tweeted on Monday that there&#8217;s now a BufferBox pickup in a San Francisco Coffee Bar, which is reportedly the first U.S. location (<a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2013\/04\/15\/googles-bufferbox-installs-its-first-u-s-pick-up-station-at-a-coffee-shop-in-the-heart-of-san-francisco\/\">hat tip: Drew Olanoff<\/a>): <\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>First @<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bufferbox\">bufferbox<\/a> pickup in SF! BOOM!! @ Coffee Bar <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/DED81cOgYn\" title=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/YGy4MbE8q_\/\">instagram.com\/p\/YGy4MbE8q_\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mike McCauley (@mmccauley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mmccauley\/status\/323601862555234304\">April 15, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.ientry.com\/sites\/webpronews\/pictures\/bufferbox-sf.jpg\" alt=\"BufferBox\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>According to McCauley, they&#8217;re still in the process of testing, but they hope to have it available to the public soon. <\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=MlhP2I7F07c:vZG1ojxLe98:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=MlhP2I7F07c:vZG1ojxLe98:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=MlhP2I7F07c:vZG1ojxLe98:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=MlhP2I7F07c:vZG1ojxLe98:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=MlhP2I7F07c:vZG1ojxLe98:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=MlhP2I7F07c:vZG1ojxLe98:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=MlhP2I7F07c:vZG1ojxLe98:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=MlhP2I7F07c:vZG1ojxLe98:mfZ73u_VV2s\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=MlhP2I7F07c:vZG1ojxLe98:mfZ73u_VV2s\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/webpronews\/all\/~4\/MlhP2I7F07c\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in November, news came out that Google acquired BufferBox, a locker service for people receiving packages from online retailers. A Google spokesperson said at the time, &#8220;We want to remove as much friction as possible from the shopping experience, while helping consumers save time and money, and we think the BufferBox team has a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}