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Old 07-08-2017, 05:42 PM
 
Location: Ruidoso, NM
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IME self checkouts are rather stupid. But they will get a lot smarter and harder to fool. I suspect all items will be tagged and you'll simply roll your cart through and pay. Automatic. Or you will be able to select and pay for your order online, and it will either be waiting in a box for pickup, or delivered wherever you like.

 
Old 07-08-2017, 08:42 PM
 
Location: Earth
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They better be sexy.
 
Old 07-09-2017, 04:05 AM
 
Location: Oregon Coast
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IME self checkouts are rather stupid. But they will get a lot smarter and harder to fool. I suspect all items will be tagged and you'll simply roll your cart through and pay. Automatic. Or you will be able to select and pay for your order online, and it will either be waiting in a box for pickup, or delivered wherever you like.
That's already happening. It's called Amazon.
 
Old 07-09-2017, 06:00 AM
 
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Toddlers are children.
Popular wisdom is not always wrong. As in when it advises that when finding that you have dug yourself into a hole, the appropriate next step is to stop digging.

In the real world meanwhile, toddlers of any definition are not a viable substitute for low-wage workers.
 
Old 07-09-2017, 07:40 AM
 
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In the real world meanwhile, toddlers of any definition are not a viable substitute for low-wage workers.
Correct. Toddlers are not like kiosks.
 
Old 07-09-2017, 09:01 AM
 
Location: Ruidoso, NM
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That's already happening. It's called Amazon.
Ya, but it isn't common in local stores, with delivery or pickup in minutes rather than days.
 
Old 07-09-2017, 09:02 AM
 
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Correct. Toddlers are not like kiosks.
Toddlers are not like pay-phones either. Kiosks resemble pay-phones though.
 
Old 07-09-2017, 11:49 AM
 
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Toddlers are not like pay-phones either. Kiosks resemble pay-phones though.
Kiosks are the future. Just as robotic burger makers are the future.
 
Old 07-10-2017, 05:58 AM
 
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So it was once said of jet-packs, moon bases, personal helicopters for the masses, and nuclear-powered vacuum cleaners. It turns out that things of the future often simply get stuck there.
 
Old 07-10-2017, 05:08 PM
 
Location: U.S.A., Earth
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I see more and more kiosks, but I've been to places (like more remote and rural ones) where they don't have them, or had them removed. I guess they were too expensive to maintain [shrug]
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