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72 years after [Clarence Saunders] attempted to patent his idea, advances in robotics, artificial intelligence, and other technologies are making the dream of a worker-free store a reality. And American cashiers may soon be checking out.
A recent analysis by Cornerstone Capital Group suggests that 7.5m retail jobs – the most common type of job in the country – are at "high risk of computerization", with the 3.5m cashiers likely to be particularly hard hit.
Another report, by McKinsey, suggests that a new generation of high-tech grocery stores that automatically charge customers for the goods they take – no check-out required – and use robots for inventory and stocking could reduce the number of labor hours needed by nearly two-thirds. It all translates into millions of Americans' jobs under threat.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by VLM on Thursday August 17 2017, @07:15PM (3 children)
Self checkout is a SWPL / whiteopia thing. You can't have those in diverse areas, crime too high. First indication of an area becoming "not so nice" is they remove the self checkouts and replace with human drones. Drive until you see a strip mall consisting of nothing but popeyes fried chicken, a rent to own store, three payday loan establishments, and a grocery store, there won't be any self check there.
Basically if the weekly police blotter in the newspaper's website is all about drunks and car accidents they can have self checkouts. Once you get violence and car breakins and muggings in the police report, the self checkouts get removed. You can also see it in shoplifting reports, if some dumb kid does something dumb every couple months the store can afford the losses of that ethnic group. If the police report is full of car thefts and muggings, the store can't afford the losses.
To have self checkout at a store is inherently white privilege. Even for white people, could you imagine a bank being run where you simply walked into the vault, put however much cash you'd like in your wallet, then on the way out signed a register of how much you took and who you are? Or a bar or restaurant where you served yourself whatever want and paid the bouncer on the way out? This only happens in racially and ethnically homogeneous areas, aka whiteopias, mostly the wealthy ones at that.
(Score: 2) by Bobs on Thursday August 17 2017, @07:57PM (2 children)
Interesting, So you live in a world where white people don't commit crimes?
Different reality from the rest of this planet.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday August 17 2017, @10:14PM
The worst part about that post is, I don't think he's using "whiteopia" ironically...ye gods.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 17 2017, @10:47PM
He lives in a reality where he is a racist shitbag and is too stupid to realize it. Ramblings of a madman.