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A Boring Dystopia
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Our local grocery store chain lets you set up both pick up and delivery orders by selecting items, scheduling, and payment in the app; which is really just a wrapped website. While this might not be your use case; it’s certainly something that can be useful for people that are willing to pay an upcharge for convenience and/or time savings.
Why not just use their website instead of installing their code on your device? If they are competent their website should have all the above features.
Cause I'd rather open an app then deal with an extra browser tab every time I want to use the site.
An open app simply is another type of browser tab, in my books. From a 'screen cruft' perspective I consider them roughly equivalent. At any rate it's an interesting aspect of software design psychology...