One of the many reasons I don't shop at Walmart anymore.
Amazon officially opens its first cashierless convenience store
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One of the many reasons I don't shop at Walmart anymore.
the moment you pick something up you are charged, weight sensors / cameras etc
I Really Mean It
Veteran
At humans replacing themselves with computers and technology
Only certain humans will be affected.
They'll have to borrow it from the bank that the 1% owns so they can pay their bills. That way when they do get a job making good money, they use all of the money they earn to pay back the loans they took out. It's just moving towards the only option being a revolving door of debt and financial servitude. They've done a great job of that here on the east coast with real estate and education, service and retail industry is next.
and who's responsible for our nations politicians getting an agenda laid out? Corporate lobbyists who can finance their campaigns, who don't give a care about social welfare because it hurts thier bottom line. That's why corporations keep getting tax cuts and don't pay billions in taxes from overseas unless they lose a case, like what just happened with Apple having to pay billions in back taxes.
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This looks like RFID on steroids.
Old technology but they can easily track people with this shyt.
And people need to start pushing back on how humans are being replaced by technology, especially when it comes to jobs. Unless they're ready for chaos and anarchy because humans have to survive.
Humans vs. machines might end up being the next world war. Then we'll start all over again from the stone age.
Old technology but they can easily track people with this shyt.
And people need to start pushing back on how humans are being replaced by technology, especially when it comes to jobs. Unless they're ready for chaos and anarchy because humans have to survive.
Humans vs. machines might end up being the next world war. Then we'll start all over again from the stone age.
West Coast Avenger
West Coastin & Smokin
No when you pick it up its added to your virtual cart....you are charged when you leave the store....my wife has already been in there and said it's convenient but weird....I'll probably check it out sometime this week....
If your government (TRUMP) doesn't see the gross inequalities in income on the horizon then I don't know what to tell you.
Other nations have been preparing for this ages ago, it's only America that seems to be so behind. You all can't even come together to pass universal healthcare for goodness sake.
It's usually the later hours when this happens, especially when I need something in a pinch may it be water, meds, and Publix is closed. I usually forget that I got jammed the last time I went at an odd hour due to all the trips I make without probs. I end up going to the gas station or a 24hr CVS due to the length of the line.
You do know that universal basic income is a fantasy that will never be seen in America right? We can’t even get these crackers to give people healthcare. The wealth gap is widening not shrinking. Look at the tax bill that just passed. It’s basically corporate welfare.I appreciate technology too, but you’d have to be blind to not see what’s potentially coming. It’s interesting to me because I can see it backfiring on corporate America if they revolutionize the work/job industry too quickly with all of this advanced technology. When you eliminate millions of jobs you’re also taking even more people out of the consumer market. You can have a self serving store all you want but if you don’t have enough people to go in and spend money buying shyt(that often isn’t a necessity) then what’s the point?
And how does one push back? With their money?
It's a free market breh, we all bought into this philosophy. You can't reject it now that some are affected. We just have to adapt.
but even if someone finds a way to shoplift once in a while, it's probably already calculated in the cost of doing business and they're probably still saving more than if they hired people (salaries, insurance, cost of handling workers complaints/conflicts, supplies you gotta provide for workers, payroll, etc)
Our president is a rich Caucasian man whose been wealthy his entire life. Our elected government officials congressmen senators and such, receive their political propulsion from other wealthy Caucasian men so they can pass laws to maintain the interests of wealthy Caucasian men. Why would a handful of wealthy caicasian men care that 90% of the country is existing simply to serve them and are poor and starving while doing so? Why would they work to make that not become a reality? They will have their gated communities to live in and and they have a militarized police force in case the serf class tries to get out of hand.
Nobody thinks they're going to be the one fighting for scraps. Everybody thinks it's going to be the other guy who's ass out, so they don't care that now teenagers are broke and won't have money to enjoy their adolescence, because a machine can scan a code 5 seconds faster.
NoGutsNoGLory
Superstar
Is it just me or are self checkout areas less used than the ones with humans?
What would you propose as an alternative to this technology. Paying humans to do something that technology can handle far more efficiently isn't a good business model.
