Posted on 12/06/2016 6:54:38 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
I’ve already used cashier-less technology at Home Depot. It’s going to happen
What about destruction of product in the stores, common in “food desert” areas.
Next up for Amazon, artificial customers to spend the money the newly unemployed no longer have.
7. Robots pre-chew food for those too lazy to chew for themselves and then force-feed the resulting mash to their pathetic immobile human charges.
8. When the morbidly obese humans are sufficiently fattened up, Adipose Industries harvests them.
Really, I’m seeing a great mashup of Judge Dredd and Doctor Who here.
Will the system keep them out of the store if they have no way to pay? Maybe everyone should be given an identifier. You know, like a mark on the hand or forehead.
If automation is decreasing the number of jobs, then it is morally necessary to end immigration and deport those here without permission to that there are more jobs per capita for the legitimate population.
These and the ordering kiosks at some self service restaurants (not only typical fast food places) will really impact the $15 minimum wage types.
I guess the only response to the loss of these jobs from the libs will be to demand a further increase in the minimum wage!
It’s just the market sending a message that, at an unreasonable wage, you’re going to be replaced by something less expensive. If labor had scaled its demands back to something for reasonable, how many jobs now done by robots in the auto industry would have been filled with skilled humans living in America? If the steel workers had reasonable wage demands, perhaps that industry could have modernized and competed effectively with the cheaper steel coming from Japan. After all, we bombed their steel industry into oblivion in WWII and they replaced it with new technology while we limped along with 1890’s plants topped with crippling wage demands.
Still, people don’t get it and choose to ignore the lessons of history, despite the fact that history is strewn with the same wreckage time-after-time. Stupid...
The worst part of the grocery shopping experience is waiting in long lines to check out!!! These store will still need to have receivers to check in the trucks with products and people to stock the shelves they will still need produce people, meat cutters, bakers ect. however the checkout process WILL BE GONE!!! The checkers when I grew up actually EARNED their money those ladies on those registers were AMAZING!!! Now all they do is slide the item across a scanner and most still make about 20.00 an hour plus benefits!!! After they went on strike during the holiday season about 14 years ago they actually lost ALL FULL time positions most checkers now work about 24-32 hours a week and this LOST them ALOT of the benefits that go with a full time position!!! These idiots let the unions put them on strike over the holidays and they GAINED NOTHING lost DAMNED near EVERYTHING!! This past year the unions were threatening a strike WE were ALL conniving how we were going to cross the lines by working in different stores so we weren’t recognized by our STUPID coworkers standing outside on the line we were VERY lucky people STOOD UP and voted NO WAY!!! Jobs today are just to hard to come by and MOST people want and NEED to work!!!!
Steelworker wages were a form of profit sharing. When the profits went away the market adjusted. Dramatically.
The only time she has to grocery shop is if she wants something which she needs before the next order can be delivered. No charge for the delivery either if her order is at least the equivalent of US$45.45.
Not to mention WallE
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Will not survive first contract with the Trump Administration’s antitrust division.
(Tried to kneecap him with your WaPo....now, reap the whirlwind, Bezos)
I see those and think "Ooops. George Jettison was here."
No, #2 is your bathroom scales alerting the refrigerator of your 3 lb weight gain so there’s a stop on further milk purchases.
The Stop & Shop comany up here in Taxachusetts has this service. It’s called PeaPod.
I've always said there's a fine line between useful convenience and laziness.
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