[olalonde]

My first thought: people are going to bring this to retail shops to get the benefits of brick-and-mortars shopping while benefiting from the low prices / delivery of Amazon.

A lot of people already kind of do this. They go to a shop, find the items they like and look up on the web if they can get a cheaper price by ordering online.

This version of the product might not be so practical for this use case though since it requires a WiFi connection and can probably only scan AmazonFresh barcodes.

[r00fus]

Exactly. Which Amazon smiles at currently and encourages through their barcode scanning app (this will require internet access for Dash, though - unless it comes with some variation of whispersync).

[simcop2387]

Says it needs an internet connection, but a cell phone as a hotspot would do that pretty easily.

[chockablock]

Or the dash could have an offline mode where it stores scanned barcodes for later lookup.