I spoke with someone who works at one of those stores six months ago & he said they cut 'everyones' hours for self check-out lanes. Greed is a disease and humanity is the target. That's the real news.
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I worked for target over 10 years and can tell you this will only be used to reduce the number of employees. Take a look at how long the lines are at the checkout. Less employees doing more work for the same or less pay.
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Do not use self checkout.
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What retailers don't realize r the maintenance costs associated w/ technology & the backlog of help desk requests that await each store. 100s of programmers @100k/yr + benefits is a lot more expensive than simply keeping human cashiers at a fraction of that cost. Tech ≠ Savings
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Robots don't organize.
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No. That's not the reason. Will hire fewer people, for fewer hours, for fewer benefits. And the ones left will do twice as much work. Ask us retail workers.
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So much for the liberals demand for $15 an hour for burger flipping jobs
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#FightFor15 has anything to do with it. More like insatiable greed by corporate CEOspic.twitter.com/6SaqVe32tX
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I refuse to use self-checkout anywhere, every time. Good luck with that. And by the way, freeing up staff "to help shoppers" is a crock. Big boxes just want to maximize profits so their CEOs can get even more obscenely richpic.twitter.com/NmplCQho6Y
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“Free employees to help customers” translates pretty closely to “Automate more jobs, and employ less people”... but please, continue telling us why we need shopping assistants at Walmart/Target...
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More like replacing workers with machines and layoffs.
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Cutting staff. Increasing profit. The WRONG way. Nothing to do w/ helping customers. #BOYCOTT -
Eventually automation will eliminate nearly all jobs. Rather than fight automation it would make more sense to tax these billion dollar corporations (who often pay $0 in taxes) to pay for a universal income. That way we grow technology but dont suffer for it before the end.
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Or begin public funded job training to help the unemployed & robot-ousted workers learn skills which are still high in demand (and hopefully higher wages than walmart provides.) We also could as a society, simply take over Walmart by declaring it to be a monopoly & public utility
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I am just saying there is much we could do rather than resist automation (an inevitable future & major incoming problem). Then again, I'm a bigtime socialist and one of those commie bastards.
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