Comment on Walmart, Costco and other companies rethink self-checkout, some stores removing them
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 9 months agoI straight up said this the last time I was there to one of the managers watching the self checkout after I heard them complaining about the long ass line. Maybe if you actually turned the other 20 lanes on instead of only having 3 the lines would go by quicker, ya dumbasses.
PRUSSIA_x86@lemmy.world 9 months ago
You expect them to pull 20 extra people put of their ass?
LifeLikeLady@lemmy.world 9 months ago
If they offered a living wage it wouldn’t be a problem. They can afford it, without raising prices.
themurphy@lemmy.world 9 months ago
No no no no no, HOW could they afford that?
Tell me how they could afford it as a giant multi billion dollar company.
It’s not even possible to pull out billions to shareholders and CEO’s each year if they did that.
Why don’t anyone ever think about the poor ultra rich?
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 9 months ago
Whether they have them all open or just 3, they still only have 2 or 3 employees watching over it all.
barsoap@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Probably some power-mad manager saying “employees must get up early to learn discipline”.
PRUSSIA_x86@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Having worked at a grocery store, it has to do with inventory stocking. All the trucks show up in the morning, so you need more people around to do intake and stock the shelves. Sometimes they go help in the front in the downtime. Despite what the antiwork folks say, most managers are not power mad assholes, they’re workers playing their role in the system. The owner class however…