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no, sorry. we shouldnt lament jobs replaced by automation/easier to use systems. we should be pissed that billionares like the waltons arent taxed at 100%, and that their lowest paid employee makes thousand of times less than the management.
otehrwise youre just a buggy-whip maker shouting into the darkness
Yup, we should be demanding things like UBI, good gov provided housing and healthcare funded by proper taxing of the rich.
Not futily fighting against progress, if the job can be automated well and efficiently then the job shouldn’t exist anymore.
UBI is nice but is a bandaid solution that doesnt really address the problem. We should be looking into extinguishing billionaires as a class.
Woah calm down Lucifer! You need steady hands to work the guillotine.
Large monopsonic companies like Walmart and Amazon already do central planning. They should simply be nationalized and run for public benefit and their owners should be brought up on charges.
Easier to use? That shit is not easier, it’s exactly what the cashier does, but now you are doing it for free.
If it was a system where you dump your shit and it totals it for you, that would be easier.
Thank you! I hate doing self checkout unless i have like 2 or 3 things. Thats how it even started anyways, most shops had them as express lanes for shoppers with just a couple things to buy. If i have more than one bag’s worth of groceries I’m going to let someone else who is paid to scan and bag do it for me.
When I’m shopping I want to get my stuff, and get out, even when I buy a lot of stuff. I do that faster than waiting in line for a register on average. Plus then i don’t have to talk to someone which is nice.
There should be both. Self check and a few clerks. Let people choose.
If all the lanes were staffed, I bet it would be faster to not do self checkout.
Also, its not so bad to talk to someone? Also also, you don’t actually have to talk to them trust me they don’t care. You don’t even have to make eye contact.
I hate corporations in general for their greed but even I understand why you can’t have all Lanes manned. Because I have worked retail and while there are definitely some busy hours Where things get crazy, the majority of the day would be dead and those people would have nothing to do.
This is why both is good, have 2-3 (for most larger stores) cashier lanes open and two sets of 4 (so 8) self checks open. Let people choose their presence
The stores near me never staff more than 3 lanes, even at peak times…
I have the exact opposite problem of the complaint in the post, the store near me will have only a single manual register open while there is a line of like five or six people that literally have maybe a handful of items all just waiting and they have a self-checkout area but they never fucking open it unless someone complains. And they act like you insulted their entire family lineage when they begrudgingly open it
does nobody else notice this is absolutely and obviously an ai generated image?
not to say that wal-mart is helping anyone at all. but this was clearly designed to spark outrage.
… shit.
Damn, they got me good.
Is it AI generated, though? AI generated images usually mangle letters pretty badly and everything seems to be legible here.
Look at the products or the text in the background. I thought the text was photoshopped but turns out it was generated as well.
So they are, statement withdrawn. I wasn’t paying that much attention to the signs in the background and sure enough, the rightmost sign’s M and R look a bit off and the “Investing in” part is completely scrambled.
This image is AI generated. Look closely at the smaller text, it’s all mangled.
its very frightening how convincing they can be
Not gonna lie, I’d rather not have to have a checker make minimum wage and be on food stamps.
Technically they’re not wrong. Someone at walmart has to source and buy the self scanners. 🤷♂️
Walmart: “Yeah sorry, not that job. Procurement pays too well.”
With the money Walmarts saves by hiring less clerks, they could pass part of those savings onto you as a customer and have cheaper products!
But they instead increase prices anyway. Kill the Walton family.
Ah yes the 5can & go machine
This is very odd. It seems to me it would be easier to take a real picture of a walmart and then photoshop in the “Investing in American Jobs” signs (which, by the way, there are too many of and they’re too large to be realistic). But instead we get this ai garbage. Why? Why not just use a real picture? Why have an ai generate an obviously fake walmart checkout aisle, when real pictures of the same are so, so easy to come by?
Which is easier. Typing a prompt into a generator or taking the time to learn how to image editing?
Weird place to store those hula hoops
Those don’t take away that many jobs, at least not here in Germany. There is still someone standing next to them whenever they are open (on busy times 2 people) and shelves aren’t stocking themselves.
Yet 😏
Instead of jobs for a select few “minimum wage slaves,” Walmart has created work for every single customer. Very egalitarian.
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