My wife said I can't use the self checkout line anymore.
I had one of those things do that to me so many times during a single transaction that I started threatening it's mother."If you say 'unexpected item in the bagging area' one more time, I'm going to reprogram you with an axe!"
I just can't deal with self-checkout either.
Unfortunately, the 'self check out' is the industry answer to 'you owe me $15 and hour', and they're not going anywhere anytime soon. In fact, they're multiplying.
Was expecting a story about a human. Waste of time, deceptive heading, lol.My wife said I can't use the self checkout line anymore.
I generally won't use those self check lanes if I have a choice. This is a the heart of why we can't buy anything made in America any more.My wife said I can't use the self checkout line anymore.
I'd do away with the minimum wage also, and pay new employee's a dollar an hour, until they showed me that they are worth more to me than that. They might get a $14 an hour raise in the first five minutes if they EARN it.
Minimum wage law is a killer for teens who might otherwise work. Businesses can’t pay $15 per hour for a new employee who can only generate $5 per hour worth of work for first several weeks until he/she learns the system.
In past, very few workers who made minimum wage stayed there. It was generally a starter wage. Once they acquired the skills they either got raises or moved to other jobs. Businesses would pay good trained workers more because it cost more for them to have to train new people than to give experienced people a raise.
People think businesses have “no choice” but to hire people at the minimum wage. Not so. Cashierless stores, Manhattan McDonalds replaced counter person order position with a kiosk—enter your order, slip in a card, get a number and come to front when order ready. Even some site down restaurants replace silverware with disposable plasticware so they don’t have to pay someone to wash dishes.
New York is messing up Uber and Lyft requiring them to pay a minimum wage. Good grief, these drivers are entrepreneurs and volunteers. Let the market work.
after reading all the posts in this thread...realize most of you guys are out of touch or completely antiquated.
self checkout is a non perfect improvement ...and wave of the future.
and as with ALL waves....ride it ..or drown yo...(in antiquity)
hopefully rocketry will continue despite the short sighted.
Jamey#5295
How is putting people out of work an improvement of ANY kind?
Agreed. To make matters worse, put them out of work just makes me have to. Now it would be one thing if there were a small discount applied at check out if you use the self thingy but to pay the same amount of money only to do the job someone at the store should be doing is crazy talk. Also, I quit like making inane chit chat with people, can't do that without getting strange looks in the self check out line.
How is putting people out of work an improvement of ANY kind?
after reading all the posts in this thread...realize most of you guys are out of touch or completely antiquated.
self checkout is a non perfect improvement ...and wave of the future.
after reading all the posts in this thread...realize most of you guys are out of touch or completely antiquated.
self checkout is a non perfect improvement ...and wave of the future.
and as with ALL waves....ride it ..or drown yo...(in antiquity)
hopefully rocketry will continue despite the short sighted.
Jamey#5295
It certainly feels bad to the person who loses the job. It must have felt that way to buggy whip manufactures when the automobile made them obsolete, or to bookkeepers who were made obsolete by the microprocessor. But so many more jobs were created by advancement in technology than are lost. That will be the same with ordering kiosks. People with great jobs designed those things. So it’s unfortunate when someone loses a job because of technology, generally it turns out well in the long haul.
Indeed. The ex and I were in Garmisch on an Oktoberfest trip in '93 and hit a grocery in town. Self-checkout, self-bagging and a Dmark to unlink the chain for the shopping cart. This country is barely catching up...
That's very little comfort to the teenager, young college kid or maybe a young single mother (yes, I do know a mother who lost her cashiers job when a local walmart installed those automated lines) who loses their jobs to a computer.
Advanced technology jobs do not help kids pay their ways through college, or help them learn life skills.
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