Stuff would he cheaper if we get rid of cashiers. So I would actually be earning money.
Maybe stores should introduce a self scan discount.
You are doing the useless job for free though. At our store items don’t scan so you have to wait while one person tries to help 10 people so it ends up taking longer that going through a checkout.
Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
It won’t be, the store will just make more profit. Our dollar stores have gone full self checkout and prices have gone up
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Maybe we should just stop having human employees, and wait for our AI overlords to turn us into Soylent green?
sigezayaq@startrek.website 1 day ago
Maybe, but there’s no guarantee. The price could stay the same and the difference could go to shareholders instead
plyth@feddit.org 1 day ago
Otherwise you pay for it with higher prices.
BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Our stores have done both full self check out, plus higher prices, so it is lose-lose here
plyth@feddit.org 1 day ago
That’s the transition period.
If you believe in competition than the self-checkout creates the opportunity to lower prices which will be used.
BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Not here, we have had collusion and price fixing amongst competitors lawsuit already. One big chain owns the competition, and also owns land rights with no other stores allowed to open in a certain radius.
Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
According to you logic, I shouldn’t even go to the store.
Why am I doing free labor when someone can pick it up and deliver it for me?
*This comment was typed delivered by a payed laborer
BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Yeah, if a company can deliver it for cheaper than your travel time and gas money, then yes delivery makes sense. Somebody gets to keep a job and you have better quality of life to spend it doing what you like.