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That doesn't make sense. Walmart is closing stores due to the rising thefts at the self checkouts? Why not hire a few more people to work the registers and keep the stores open?
There are so many cameras at those self checkouts, why would anyone risk stealing? I guess the thieves are the types that have nothing to lose including their long lost self respect.
It's hard to find manned registers now. The stores are turning their customers into slave laborers just to be able to buy groceries. Walmart is definitely not going to hire more people to run the registers when they can get people to work for free.
It's hard to find manned registers now. The stores are turning their customers into slave laborers just to be able to buy groceries. Walmart is definitely not going to hire more people to run the registers when they can get people to work for free.
Well when wages raise then you have to have less people working to get the same labor cost.
That's simple economics.
Not just Walmart. Look at FF and their level of automation.
Sure..workers are making more but now you have less workers.
2 people at $10/hour has turned into 1 person at $20/hour
My town posts photos from security cameras at two local Walmarts and a Lowe's. The problem doesn't seem to be theft at self-checkouts but people filling a cart with expensive items and walking out the door. I find it interesting that these stores have video of the theft, know exactly the dollar amount of the items stolen, know what kind of vehicle they were driving, and yet they seem unable to stop these thefts. These thefts are typically over $1K.
BTW, I live in a very red area, but not sure that it matters.
Blue states? I see this in Florida regularly in deep red areas. You see people scan 2 items and slip the 3rd right by, only scan 2/3 of the cart.
I don’t get a discount for ringing myself up and the groceries are not lower to accommodate for not hiring cashiers or baggers. Seems to me stores are accepting the extra shrink, I don’t see stores putting in more monitors, seems like the extra loss is far less that the cost of hiring more monitors to reduce the problem and more cost effective for them than cashiers and baggers.
I figure within 10 years most stores will be hallowed out with 2-3 employees only and you scan items as you put them in your cart and it charges you like many groceries stores in Europe and Japan. Stores are willing to take more theft to avoid their biggest expense, employees.
Actually, Walmart says they are closing stores due to "lack of profitability" which means that if a store is bringing in the bucks, despite shoplifting and the theft at the self-checkout lanes, they stay open.
So it could be that blue state shoppers are shopping elsewhere.
That doesn't make sense. Walmart is closing stores due to the rising thefts at the self checkouts? Why not hire a few more people to work the registers and keep the stores open?
There are so many cameras at those self checkouts, why would anyone risk stealing? I guess the thieves are the types that have nothing to lose including their long lost self respect.
Businesses no longer want employees at all, you the employee is the biggest expense and the big corporations cannot wait to replace an everyone with automation, robotics, or online shopping with perhaps pickup at the store.
Face it, the modern corporate plan includes eliminating as many employees as possible.
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