My Amazon boycott is over

[*Nately120*]

(10-02-2018, 12:20 PM)Benton Wrote: Because they still have to have some employee.

It's like self check at Walmart. Yeah, they can cut out X amount of jobs, but you will never be able to completely automate a retail environment. It would be fun to watch the looting for the company that tries... maybe they could have the robot stockers hang sings on the shelves that said "Sorry for the inconvenience, the parent company wanted to save money and the item you're looking for was recently stolen by someone without a job."

I'm not a fan of the BEZOS though. Carrots work better than sticks. But, ultimately, something needs to be done. It's ridiculous that taxpayers are forced to keep companies profit margins high. 

Side story, the local Wal Mart was apparently one of the test stores for the thing where shoppers can get a hand scanner and a bag holder for the cart and scan and bag their groceries as they shop.  I just noticed that it has been gone for a while and one of the managers there said that shoppers were stealing too much to make it worth the while.

At any rate, you can never automate everything, but I imagine there will be 50+ self checkouts and 3 or 4 people watching them, eventually.  If I don't like it I can shop somewhere else, I guess.  Someone behind me was complaining "to himself" about the person in front of me using an access card and I shrugged and said "Can't you shop somewhere that doesn't accept access cards?"  People never know what to say when you bring that sort of thing up.

Anyways, we keep privatizing profits and socializing loss, and that's the way it is. Sucks to not be on the winning side of that coin, but that's America for ya.