Comment on The way "self-checkout" has been pushed on us is nothing short of injustice
isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Wait til you learn how grocery stores used to be physically arranged…
Comment on The way "self-checkout" has been pushed on us is nothing short of injustice
isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Wait til you learn how grocery stores used to be physically arranged…
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
you mean a counter you walked up to and told the man what you wanted? and they’d have stockboys run the aisles to grab your shit?
isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Exactly. Supermarkets themselves represented a vast shift of work from the grocers to the customers. First they got us to collect our own orders. Then they figured out how to get us to run the check out!
UnrepentantAlgebra@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Next they are going to make us drive to the dairy farm to pick up our own milk!