FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (Gray News) – Walmart customers in Arkansas are getting a look at possible future changes for the retail giant.
The front end of the store has been redesigned in hopes of making checkout faster.
Some industry watchers have dubbed it a “cashier-free store” or “self-checkout only,” but Kory Lundberg with Walmart said that’s oversimplifying the changes.
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"Some industry watchers have dubbed it a “cashier-free store” or “self-checkout only,”
ReplyDeleteHell, the have that in most stores in the hood now!
Just enter bonus code "Floyd" for 100% free purchases!
DeleteThis is a big push from all corporations, THAT YOU CAN STOP!!!
ReplyDeleteDon't like self checkout? DON'T USE IT!
Spend 5 minutes of your life making sure that cashier still has a job by waiting in line! Read your phone, time will fly.
Don't frequent stores that use self-checkout! Go across town to the OTHER walmart that wasn't redesigned to replace human beings.
... when sales at these stores crater and pickup at traditionally staffed stores, corporations will get the hint and respond. Thats how capitalism works. Vote with your wallet!
Not to mention "shrink" going through the roof at the self-checkout stores.
DeleteThey have done that here in Canada too. I don't go there anymore. I want a fucking cashier to run my stuff through and take my money. I prefer not to deal with robots. I like to see PEOPLE with jobs.
ReplyDeleteWalmart could make check out faster if they staffed more than 4 of the 40 or so registers
ReplyDeleteI see this as an easy way to get out of paying for certain items. People will find ways to rip WalMart off and walk out the store. Heck, I see homeless people walk over to the deli, get food, walk around the store eating it and leave without paying for it in advance. Fried chicken is a favorite.
ReplyDeleteFried chicken, eh? True. But, heehee.
DeleteHere's a link to a blog post by my friend James LaFond, who worked in and managed grocery stores in ghetto Baltimore.
Of Kings and Queens
Big Mamma is your ideal customer. Yes, she might eat an entire rotisserie chicken while her children devour a box of snacks. But not only will I look the other way, I’m willing to pay some retarded white guy $10 an hour to clean up her mess. She is the cash bomb. No customer, not Bill Gates or the Dyke Queen of West Germany spends as much money on retail food as Big Mamma. This is not calculated as a percentage of income, but in raw dollars.
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What is more, this lady has poor impulse control, exasperated by her once a month windfall, and is also—thank God—poorly educated in making purchasing decisions. Not only does Big Mamma spend twice as much money as the next closest customer, but her dollar is an impulsive dollar, which nets the grocer four times the profit of—the Korean or Hebrew dollar, for instance, and twice the profit as the Anglo or Hispanic dollar.
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Race and income are not indicators of theft.
Race is an indicator for aggression, with blacks committing virtually all supermarket violence.
Welfare recipients are more prone to steal and more violent than other thieves of the same race, with the only violent whites being welfare recipients.
This examination is indicating that what is at the core of theft and aggression is a sense of entitlement.
Mike_C, I was very much interested in reading your friend James LaFond's blog post, but your link doesn't work. (It translates as "Javascript:Void(0)" Whatever that is.)
Deletehttps://www.jameslafond.com/article.php?id=3467
DeleteI get a kick out of when one of the "employees" points out to me that the self-serv checkouts are open.
ReplyDeleteI always ask loudly "Do I get a discount for doing YOUR job?"
I think they are talking to each other...they don't point that little fact out to me much anymore.
Now that I think about it, I think that they use me as an initiation for new employees.
THIS is always my reply when they do the same thing. I also will ask if they can get some of the many associates doing other tasks that can be done just about any time to come check out people. Usually they will say those folks are not cashiers.
DeleteI can remember the early 'do-it yourself' warehouse stores where you had to mark the groceries with a grease pen and bag yourself. If I am going to use a self-checkout line, I deserve and want a discount.
And the people that "staff" and use them do not realize what they are helping usher in for the future.
So instead of one surly associate at the register, there will be 10?
ReplyDeleteI refuse to use them, hell I've gone so far as to call the store's office while walking in to go shopping and complain about the size of the lines at checkout, I've only been told once about using self checkout. My rep!y was I refuse to use them and if the line wasn't moving when I was done shopping I was going to leave my cart and they could pay someone to put my items back on the shelves. At least 2 more checkers were working when I got there.
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JD
Walmart could make all the checkouts faster if the scanners could actually read the barcodes reliably
ReplyDeleteWhen shopping at my grocery store I have several checker girls I like to look for and flirt with. But I am beginning to notice when I pull into their stands, "it's time for their break". So, I must be monitored. I am pretty sure about this because one of the girls is already fucking me. And doesn't want "us" to end. What happens when it all goes to robots? Start flirting with the girls who are "curb-side" shoppers. They will actually stop their tasks and shoot the shit with you. And they work crazy hours so it is easy to get a date whenever it is convenient.
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