My Amazon boycott is over

[Benton]

(10-02-2018, 12:31 PM)Nately120 Wrote: 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.

My wife does that at Sam's, the scan and go. I think it works there because you have fewer people buying higher volumes, and 1 or 2 people checking as you go out. But I don't think that would work at regular Walmarts or smaller stores as you've got more people buying fewer things and going out at the same time.

(10-02-2018, 01:01 PM)michaelsean Wrote: i'm not talking about them laying everyone off, just that, and maybe I can't explain it right, most of us don't employ anyone for any amount.  I'm not arguing against the idea that  a lot of companies should pay more to the low level employees, just the part where we hold them accountable for what the government decides they are entitled to because of low wages.  

Ultimately, someone has to keep some sort of check on the system, otherwise it goes off the rails. If you scrap all the laws and regulations, employers will pay employees as little as possible. That's not socialist propaganda, that's historically what's happened every where in every form of government. We've been heading that direction more and more for the last half century in the US.