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re: Wal-Mart getting ready to replace hundreds of jobs with robots
Posted on 12/3/18 at 11:03 am to Hammertime
Posted on 12/3/18 at 11:03 am to Hammertime
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Home Depot by me is supposed to be replacing a lot of the cashiers with self-checkout stations. They already have two brand new ones put in that have like 32" monitors and those guns that the cashiers use. Work extremely well.
The WalMart grocery near us, has 8 cashier lanes and 4 self-checkout lanes. I've never seen more than 3 of the cashier lanes used at the same time.
But they turn off the self-checkout lanes at like 8 pm, at the same time they cut down the cashier lanes to 1 or 2.
The self-checkout lanes have a person there to oversee them, but it seems to me you could have 1 regular cashier line open, and the 4 self-checkout lines open, with a total of 2 employees, instead of having just the 2 regular cashier lines open. Makes no sense to me.
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Posted on 12/3/18 at 11:05 am to Dr RC
food should be next. not sure why McDonald's needs real people to serve fake meat.
Posted on 12/3/18 at 11:28 am to HoustonGumbeauxGuy
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food should be next. not sure why McDonald's needs real people to serve fake meat.
You don’t. There are McDonald’s where you order your food and pay on a kiosk and your number is called when it’s ready. Panera does this everywhere.
Posted on 12/3/18 at 11:37 am to CaptSpaulding
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The more robots in Walmart, the better. If you’re looking for something, and you have the option of asking an employee or a robot, which one are you going to?
Amazon. The correct answer is: "I'm going to Amazon".
Also, to the guy who said McDonald's needs to get rid of employees, I ALREADY remove the counter jockey from the "how are they going to frick up my order" equation. I always order through the app. That order gets relayed through magic into their order system and gets slotted into the kitchen's workflow. There's no way for their hired idiots to misunderstand or enter my order incorrectly. Then, when I show up, it's pretty much already made and paid for. Then I walk out.
A lot of smaller chains have long embraced the technology. Pretty much every food outlet in Towne Center, for example, has a way for your to order your food and just have it waiting when you arrive. Maybe kiosks get installed, but I'd bet on McDonald's pushing heavily on getting customers to use the mobile apps on the mobile kiosks they all carry in their pockets instead of installing lots of hardware customers will abuse in all of their restaurants.
Plus, I don't have to touch the touchscreen on the kiosk after someone else's filthy paws have been all over it.
This post was edited on 12/3/18 at 11:48 am
Posted on 12/3/18 at 11:48 am to Dr RC
You know what’s great about robots? They don’t bitch about minimum wage.
They will kill us and enslave those that are complicit with their rule.
They will kill us and enslave those that are complicit with their rule.
Posted on 12/3/18 at 11:50 am to Dr RC
Anyone really have a problem with this?
Posted on 12/3/18 at 11:55 am to Dr RC
I hope robots replace department store sales people.
Would be wonderful to walk around brookstone without having to politely tell some jackarse to piss off.
Would be wonderful to walk around brookstone without having to politely tell some jackarse to piss off.
This post was edited on 12/3/18 at 12:24 pm
Posted on 12/3/18 at 11:55 am to shotcaller1
We rarely eat fast food and I was further reminded why this past weekend. Went to an Arby’s and the person taking our order inside was scrolling through her phone as she was taking our order. Bots are on the way soooooon.
Chik-fil-a is the exception
Chik-fil-a is the exception
Posted on 12/3/18 at 11:57 am to Demshoes
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Wal-Mart is already making you do your own work for lower prices. The Elmwood location now has 80% self-serve checkout lines making you scan and bag your own shite.
Now it seems more and more stores/groceries don't want you even in the store, touting order on line and you pull up to the zoned pick up area and have your order/groceries brought out to your vehicle.
Unless you have an automated warehouse you still need a human to pull the order from the shelves and put them in the cart.
Posted on 12/3/18 at 12:03 pm to LSUFanHouston
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The self-checkout lanes have a person there to oversee them, but it seems to me you could have 1 regular cashier line open, and the 4 self-checkout lines open, with a total of 2 employees, instead of having just the 2 regular cashier lines open. Makes no sense to me.
Its due to theft. Those self check out lines at walmart are high theft areas. The people working are worthless to prevent this. Especially at night.
Posted on 12/3/18 at 12:09 pm to tWildcat
I welcome our new Robotic leaders and overlords. Thank you for knowing what programs I may like on Netflix and please hurry up with season two of Mindhunter ok?
Posted on 12/3/18 at 12:19 pm to baldona
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Its due to theft. Those self check out lines at walmart are high theft areas. The people working are worthless to prevent this. Especially at night.
Some of the large grocery store chains did away with self check out because of inability to control losses through theft.
Posted on 12/3/18 at 12:20 pm to Dr RC
AI will be the end of us. If you think it is only custodians that will be replaced, think again.
I saw an article where a new deep learning neural network AI is designing bulkhead walls for airplanes that are stronger and weigh half as much as the ones previously designed by engineers.
If AI can do twice as good a job (in a few days) as aerospace engineers (with decades of cumulative work) then nobody's job is really safe.
The other aspect is that as these workers are displaced by robots they will not be spending their money at other businesses which ends up having wide reaching consequences.
I saw an article where a new deep learning neural network AI is designing bulkhead walls for airplanes that are stronger and weigh half as much as the ones previously designed by engineers.
If AI can do twice as good a job (in a few days) as aerospace engineers (with decades of cumulative work) then nobody's job is really safe.
The other aspect is that as these workers are displaced by robots they will not be spending their money at other businesses which ends up having wide reaching consequences.
Posted on 12/3/18 at 12:24 pm to Dr RC
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that the machines will be able to scrub floors even with customers around.
I don't care how good the sensors are. They gonna be fired when trying to figure out how to mop around a slow moving diabeetus scooter, or trying to navigate around a trash family that brought all 12 of their kids on a shopping trip.
Posted on 12/3/18 at 1:46 pm to John Gotti
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Thanks Bernie!!!
To quote the man on the question of how his economics wouldn't strangle the small business entrepreneur while meeting his ideals of reducing income inequality: "The devil is in the details."
Posted on 12/3/18 at 1:49 pm to Dr RC
Product of a $15 minimum wage. You reap what you sow.
Posted on 12/3/18 at 2:00 pm to Dr RC
I wonder if 3/4 of them will be broken down like their self-checkout machines.
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