How Bodega typifies Silicon Valley’s cultural ignorance

Let's check in with what the actual founders of this company said:

  Are we trying to put corner stores out of business?

  Definitely not. Challenging the urban corner store is not
  and has never been our goal.

  Corner stores have been fixtures of their neighborhoods for
  generations. They stock thousands of items, far more than we
  could ever fit on a few shelves. Their owners know what
  products to carry and in many cases who buys what. And
  they’re run by people who in addition to selling everything
  from toilet paper to milk also offer an integral human
  connection to their patrons that our automated storefronts
  never will.

This endgadget post is lying clickbait. It's "two minutes hate" for 21st century America.

Did you read the article? That very statement by the founders is discussed and contextualized within. Where's the lie?

When you say that a company is trying to do something that:

1) They've explicitly said they aren't trying to do.

2) Given their product, would be a ridiculous thing to try to do in the first place.

It's a lie.