Walmart self check out

[taxslave]

Is that why you always go there.. glad to know..

I buy my gas a Costco, it's always 5 cents cheaper

Nice if there is a COSTCO nearby. Be even better if they had diesel.

 

[petros]

Well yes, but the six cashiers are replaced by one supervising.

The six cashiers and three more went to the express lines what came in the same time as self checkout.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

I am pro Walmart self checkout. If I have two or three things I can get out of there way faster doing it myself. Same at Home Depot. I should get a discount for performing the work they otherwise have to pay someone to do. But I don't get a discount.

This is the basic problem with automation. When machines displace workers those workers get nothing and the consumer gets nothing the only people who profit are the companies.

Feel free to use a cashier lane.

Stick it to Da Man, Hoid!

 

[DaSleeper]

I like to have real people to blame if a mistake is made......lol

And you never know who you will meet...
From a ten year old post......

This morning....five hundred miles away from home.....at the check-out counter at Walmart at Eglington near Warden in Toronto, the cashier asks me for my postal code and for once I tell the truth, (I usually give any number that pops in my mind)......:wink:

The young lady waiting in line behind me says to me....hey you're from "Kap"? (using the shortened name for my home town) Do you know the "L*******"?.....her parents, neighbours on the next street from mine.

Sure is a small world:icon_smile:

 

[Danbones]

Wouldn't be Lalondes? eh?
lol

 

[TenPenny]

The six cashiers and three more went to the express lines what came in the same time as self checkout.

In our local stores, the 'express lines' were there before the self checkout, so that didn't happen.

 

[DaSleeper]

Wouldn't be Lalondes? eh?
lol

Which Lalonde do you know or did you pick a name out of a phone directory, because I know several Lalondes.....
Back door neighbour's daughter, married the son of a Lalonde I used to work with......

 

[B00Mer]

Nice if there is a COSTCO nearby. Be even better if they had diesel.

Well okay then.. forgot you live in the back woods on the Island.. I have a Costco down the road in Balzac, Alberta.. easy and convenient.

 

[tay]

Well I guess it was bound to happen, a unique way to get rid of those pesky minimum wage cashiers....


Jim Hightower writes that the risk of technology displacing workers is ultimately just one instance of the wider problem of corporate greed

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Well okay then.. forgot you live in the back woods on the Island.. I have a Costco down the road in Balzac, Alberta.. easy and convenient.

Heh-heh. . . he said "ballsack."

 

[Cannuck]

In our local stores, the 'express lines' were there before the self checkout, so that didn't happen.

Yup, expess has been around for ever. Petros was living in saskatistan so things were probably delayed

 

[B00Mer]

Heh-heh. . . he said "ballsack."

...and that seems to be a joke here too in Alberta. :lol:

Balzac is a hamlet in the southern portion of the Canadian province of Alberta, in Rocky View County.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balzac,_Alberta

https://www.costco.ca/warehouse-locations/rocky-view-rocky-view-county-ab-1076.html

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Balzac is a hamlet

Don't be ridiculous. Balzac is The Human Comedy. Shakespeare is Hamlet.

 

[Hoid]

Also they are getting an app where you won;t even have to go to a cash register but just scan it with you phone. Not sure how you get a paper receipt - maybe you don't need one.

 

[tay]

No copy/paste of the story so you will have to read it.......


Walmart will soon have robots roaming the aisles in 50 stores


Walmart store robot program expands - Business Insider

 

[Hoid]

The best thing about this is that the self check out is credit/debit only.

Future generations will never know the pain of waiting in line behind an old person who wants to pay in cash. And with exact change. It always has to be exact change.

Or, God forbid, a personal check..