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Yeah, I hope so... I get tired of seeing lazy people earning $15 an hour and displaying the worst possible customer service they can possibly do...
For as much as I don't like dealing with surly individuals who give shoddy customer service, I realize something. Alot of those persons are there because it's the only kind of work they're qualified to do. This is where we stand right now:
Even if we got rid of the illegals, we'd still have a surplus of labor. If cashiers (not just in grocery stores, fast food service) got replaced by automated check-out stations, we would have a big labor surplus. Alot of people who work those jobs do so because they can't do much better. Alot of industries don't have room for so many people.
Automated checkouts has been a thing for over a decade now and are in heavy rotation at all of the Walmarts, Home depots etc.
I've not checked out the Amazon store yet but I hear there is one in Chicago in the Merchandise Mart and will check it out sometime this Summer. My sibling said it was really cool.
Here's a look at an Amazon grocery store with no cashiers. Will we be seeing more of these types of stores?
Yes. This is exactly the kind of job that automation is suited for.
I have mixed feelings about this. When self-check-out stations first appeared in my local supermarket, I made it a point to ask a couple of the cashiers how they felt. To my surprise, they liked them. Turns out that running a check-out line was no one's idea of fun. They liked the fact that a single cashier could supervise several lines. And they liked the fact that they would be rotated through their check-out stints quicker, and that they now had more time to do a better job at their other responsibilities. The store did not intend to lay off any existing employees, and as far as I could tell, they didn't.
But overall, I am sure that cashier jobs are going away. And I wonder how the people who have traditionally held these jobs are going to earn a living.
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