Comment on The way "self-checkout" has been pushed on us is nothing short of injustice
notsosure@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks agoWe haven’t seen a drop in prices, as inflation is way up, thanks to the Orange Chimpanzee. Yet, a store with 100% employees and 0% automation will always be more expensive than a store with 30% employees and 70% automation- that’s the reason humans invent machines…in the end machines and robots are always cheaper than humans. Those profits will not be passed on 100% to consumers, but parts will be, to draw more people into the store.
Those profits will not be passed on 100% to consumers, but parts will be, to draw more people into the store.
Really, though, got any data on that? Because what’s to stop a store from passing 0% of that onto consumers and thus increasing their profits?
It’s from my close business interactions directly with the managers of these stores. I did business with them, areas of brand and category management, POS, etc.
123@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
That is completely false. Safeway is 25-40% more expensive for basic items like limes, onions and tomatoes compared to the Mexican market right across the street.
The Mexican market always has 2 butchers, 1-2 cashiers and 1-2 people stocking items. Safeway maybe has 50% more staff for a store that takes up like 10x the amount of space once you add in the parking lot.
Economies of scale would say Safeway should be able to obliterate the smaller store in price but that has never been the case in the 6 years I’ve lived here. They do have more items and longer hours (3 extra hours in the evening with a skeleton crew), but at the prices they demand, you are better off going to the Mexican, Asian and Indian markets while accounting for gas and wear and tear on a car and still have a better experience and overall cost.
Large corporations are just syphons of local money into offshore accounts at this point.
notsosure@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
What has that to do with automated cash tellers?