Collected Item: “Kmart Online Booking System”
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Kmart Online Booking System
What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?
Screenshot, online
Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.
My housemate and I looked in to opening hours once the stage four restrictions were lifted and retail could reopen. We were surprised to see that we could book online to get first preference in entering a Kmart store, which is a feature completely non-existent before the pandemic. Although necessary to ensure social distancing, booking online to enter a store further digitises our everyday lived experiences. This may not be an issue for people with access to the internet like myself, but it has the potential to further ostracise people with limited or no access to technology.
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Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?
#shopping, #Kmart, #Melbourne, #online
Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.
https://www.socialq.net/book/stores/839/date?visitors=2 (Not stable as site changes to reflect daily bookings)
Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)
Screenshot by Brittney Taylor, site by SocialQ, Kmart.
Give this story a date.
2020-10-29