No More Cashier Jobs?

Here's a look at an Amazon grocery store with no cashiers. Will we be seeing more of these types of stores?

 

One more business eliminating humans. No thanks.

 

The local Wal-Mart has been like that for the last year or so. These things began to happen more rapidly right after the successful push for a ridiculously high minimum wage. "$15 minimum wage for everyone! What could possibly go wrong?"

 

amazon has actual stores now?

i'm sure we'll see plenty of it. there will have to be someone on staff at least for the foreseeable future to deal with any unusual situations or computer glitches, but there's no point in having a bunch of people standing around to scan groceries at half the speed that your average customer can scan their own.

i know it's trendy to say that this particular bit of progress is bad because it eliminates jobs, but there have been a ton of jobs in the past that don't exist anymore. there's also a ton of jobs now that didn't exist in the past. change is not automatically a bad thing.

 

That *is* true.

 

There's also an inflation on population that can't already find enough jobs for all the people though.

Saving a bit of money on self service is one thing but that's what 15yo kids rely on to make a few lousy bucks to pay pre paid cell plan.

 

There's also an inflation on population that can't already find enough jobs for all the people though.

Saving a bit of money on self service is one thing but that's what 15yo kids rely on to make a few lousy bucks to pay pre paid cell plan.

 

We have these where I live and, also, this is what Andrew Yang tried to warn you about

 

I've never heard of him but if he warned people then I agree with him.

 

tell them to move here. all the factories are working their people crazy amounts of overtime because nobody will apply for the jobs they have open.

 

oh no. That is the pattern for sure. Mcdonalds went through that.

 

Well, we can all easily boycott them

 

Cut grass and other yard work, work at fast food joints, etc. There’s plenty work for teens out there to get into if they put there cell phones down and actually try to work.

 

We can't get anyone to work at our roofing company. What's wrong with starting people at 16 --18 bucks an hour and working up to 22- 25 bucks an hour? When I started in '67 and worked piece work--there were competent roofers falling out of the sky. No more. Yeah, it's hard work--maybe that's why not many want to do it. I worked it 'till I was 70.

 

Ok, just actually watched the video

Ugh with all the blooming plastic packaging

If they go to all the trouble of starting up such a sophisticated object recog system, surely they can come up with a way to cut down the plastic involved

 

You (anyone) have all seen those clips of the auto lines with cars moving through being welded by machines? Before I got into my trade, I worked at Ford on the line--those machines have taken the place of people doing the welding. More money now for the stockholders and the CEOs. I suppose most people think that's just fine and is the way of business. I don't.

 

"When I walked into the car manufacturing plant right here in Detroit, it wasn't wall to wall immigrants. It was wall to wall robots."
--Andrew Yang

 

If the car companies could just take a couple tons of metal and plastic and throw it into a big machine and out would pop a car----they'd be ALL over that.

 

Like this ???

 

Which in a roundabout way is Yang saying you don't need immigrants

Just saying