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State Wants You to Get a Discount for Using Self Checkout
Steve LehtoFeb 13, 2023
And Rhode Island also wants to limit the number of self-checkouts per store. 11:49
State Wants You to Get a Discount for Using Self Checkout
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And Rhode Island also wants to limit the number of self-checkouts per store. 11:49
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Do they expect me to help unload the 18 wheelers at the loading docks as well?
Only way I am doing self-checkout is if I get paid for it. And I've been known to walk out of a grocery store leaving a loaded cart behind because they had long lines and only two checkers. Went up the street and got my groceries elsewhere.
Only way I am doing self-checkout is if I get paid for it. And I've been known to walk out of a grocery store leaving a loaded cart behind because they had long lines and only two checkers. Went up the street and got my groceries elsewhere.
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Paying 10c for plastic grocery bags at the grocers will probably offset any discount.
Going from paper to plastic sure saved forests!
Of course we're saving the planet from certain death.
Never mind that plastic is used for every packaging imaginable from meats to cookies!
But hey, at least we're feeling good about it.
Going from paper to plastic sure saved forests!
Of course we're saving the planet from certain death.
Never mind that plastic is used for every packaging imaginable from meats to cookies!
But hey, at least we're feeling good about it.
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Those paper straws are what is going to save the Earth. Never mind the fact that they are individually wrapped in little plastic bags. Just ignore that fact. John Kerry has taken it upon himself to save us all from ourselves. What selflessness. A real hero.
It's all going to automated order picking and home or drive thru delivery...my son is heavily involved in this....Walmart n Kroger are set to battle it out..... fwiw we refuse to use self checkout and will leave a cart if needed
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I've noticed that as well, but I'll be damned if I am going to have some 80 IQ gender-confused <redacted - see forum guidelines on epithets> with green hair picking my produce for me. I want to squeeze those avocados myself. And the bananas have to have just the right amount of green on them.
It's going totally automated ie robotics..ie no green hairs....if you want to pay twice the price and travel to a store you will be offered a "neighborhood walmart".......its already in the works whether we like it or not
This hopes to plug into customers' outrage at disappearing customer service.
But...when did it become the prerogative of government, to determine prices, profits, and order discounts? The crap in the store is property of the business (or its financier-banksters) until conditions are met, and a trade is concluded. That generally means money changing hands.
A third party, determining how much each should be, vis-a-vis each other, is NONE OF THEIR BUSINESS.
When that third party is government, it's TYRANNY. Specifically, Price Controls. A key element, and first step, of a Command-and-Control economy.
No like the self-serve? Don't use it. Don't shop in stores where it's the only option.
You no like the higher prices at Hole Foods? Hey, that's the tradeoff..
I prefer the self-server...quicker, and I don't have to deal with the Special-Ed cashiers which seem to be the only kind left. THAT, I have a problem with. When I was a kid, a grocery-store cashier's job was a good-paying job. Women (always women) who could work the unique keyboard on a mechanical cash register quickly, could make about 5x Minimum Wage. About $8-$10 in those days.
The wages stayed the same, but inflation ate up the buying power. Meantime the grocery mega-corporations spent million$ installing bar-code readers. Suddenly, zero skill required.
AND...a new trick, done with the consent of the grocery workers' union. Keep the "new" hires at a part-time status and wage for YEARS...the carrot dangling just out of reach, for ten years and more, while they made about $6 an hour (1995 wages; I knew someone who was a cashier in a Denver Safeway).
Finally, just slowly phase out the job.
I have to wonder how it was we had affordable groceries AND professionally-trained-and-paid cashiers in the 1960s. But that's their watch; apparently one thing Black Rock and the Banksters never learned, was, the most-expensive thing in the world, is cheap help.
But it's their business. State Command-and-Control structures are just going to make things far worse.
But...when did it become the prerogative of government, to determine prices, profits, and order discounts? The crap in the store is property of the business (or its financier-banksters) until conditions are met, and a trade is concluded. That generally means money changing hands.
A third party, determining how much each should be, vis-a-vis each other, is NONE OF THEIR BUSINESS.
When that third party is government, it's TYRANNY. Specifically, Price Controls. A key element, and first step, of a Command-and-Control economy.
No like the self-serve? Don't use it. Don't shop in stores where it's the only option.
You no like the higher prices at Hole Foods? Hey, that's the tradeoff..
I prefer the self-server...quicker, and I don't have to deal with the Special-Ed cashiers which seem to be the only kind left. THAT, I have a problem with. When I was a kid, a grocery-store cashier's job was a good-paying job. Women (always women) who could work the unique keyboard on a mechanical cash register quickly, could make about 5x Minimum Wage. About $8-$10 in those days.
The wages stayed the same, but inflation ate up the buying power. Meantime the grocery mega-corporations spent million$ installing bar-code readers. Suddenly, zero skill required.
AND...a new trick, done with the consent of the grocery workers' union. Keep the "new" hires at a part-time status and wage for YEARS...the carrot dangling just out of reach, for ten years and more, while they made about $6 an hour (1995 wages; I knew someone who was a cashier in a Denver Safeway).
Finally, just slowly phase out the job.
I have to wonder how it was we had affordable groceries AND professionally-trained-and-paid cashiers in the 1960s. But that's their watch; apparently one thing Black Rock and the Banksters never learned, was, the most-expensive thing in the world, is cheap help.
But it's their business. State Command-and-Control structures are just going to make things far worse.
We have to relearn how to do everything.
Because the autistic dweebs in Tech, and the Lizard Men in business, have made simple things SO frightfully difficult.
Like, simply getting a phone. Remember when after a move, you went down to the Mountain Bell office, met with the front-counter person, asked for service, answered a few questions, put down a deposit, and left with a time and date to meet the installer? NOW you have to navigate contracts, prices, TYPE of phone, BRAND of phone, hope the phone model is not unusable (pejorative) - and many of them are.
Watching tevee. Remember buying a set, getting it home, plugging it in and turning it on? Nope. Gotta have proprietary remotes, converters, services, contracts, Internet, Roke-eewww, that all add up to over $100 a month, OVER your Internet connection. So you can get 1000 channels of Woke.
Microwaves that can't be made to work properly - no pressing a time on a pad; no, you have to go through a long sequence of obscure buttons. Wristwatches with 150-page instruction manuals.
Now, I have to worry about the Jabbed quacks, COLLECTING MY JAB-REFUSNIK STATUS. Which is leaving me, effectively without medical care. All the rational physicians have been fired or marginalized - just the Woke zombies, Jabbed, brain-fogged, worshipping Fow Chee and Pfize-Er.
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From the link:
Walmart, the largest private employer in the US, revealed on Tuesday plans to automate a large swath of its stores and warehouses within a three-year timeframe. This move aligns with the surge of artificial intelligence technologies being introduced into the economy to enhance efficiency; however, it also threatens to displace millions of jobs.
www.zerohedge.com
Walmart, the largest private employer in the US, revealed on Tuesday plans to automate a large swath of its stores and warehouses within a three-year timeframe. This move aligns with the surge of artificial intelligence technologies being introduced into the economy to enhance efficiency; however, it also threatens to displace millions of jobs.
Mass Automation To Sweep Across Walmart Stores By 2026 | ZeroHedge
ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
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Picked up a few things at a Walmart yesterday. Busy place in NE Philly. Their self-checkout used to be a one way in - one way out arrangement with maybe 10 older and small machines. That's been replaced. Now there are around 20 state of the art machines with easy access. They had 3 checkout clerks working.
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The logic is mind boggling. We were at the woke childrens museum. I bought drinks for all of us. The drinks were served in heavy duty plastic cups with dome plastic lids. However they banned straws. WTF
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Just make yourself a vax card. Ridiculously easy. Took me 15 minutes. Although I did have to buy an entire ream of 110# card stock.
Showed it to them last time I went for a physical and they entered me into their database which is shared between all medical providers in the state of Virginia. Easy peasy. Now I'm officially a "vaxxed" person without having to worry about the blood clots or the myocarditis.
If anyone dares to question your "vaxxed" status, simply call them a vax bigot. If that doesn't work, screw up your face like Justin Bieber or this Canadian actress so they will know that you've had your compliance injections.
So, you're gonna lie to your HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL?Just make yourself a vax card. Ridiculously easy. Took me 15 minutes. Although I did have to buy an entire ream of 110# card stock.
Showed it to them last time I went for a physical and they entered me into their database which is shared between all medical providers in the state of Virginia. Easy peasy. Now I'm officially a "vaxxed" person without having to worry about the blood clots or the myocarditis.
If anyone dares to question your "vaxxed" status, simply call them a vax bigot. If that doesn't work, screw up your face like Justin Bieber or this Canadian actress so they will know that you've had your compliance injections.
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You gonna USE a "health care" "professional" who is totally brain-pfukked - the Jab is the answer, what is the question? Jab, Jab, every month, note it on the card, count the cash the government prints for you?
A "physician" who's Jabbed himself - who's not only a Woketard, incapable of critical thinking, but is probably suffering Brain Fog?
You can if you want.
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and they're sketchy at best... not the brightest in the bunch
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Mine was a friendly and courteous female working what is basically a dead-end job. Don't know how "bright" she is but she's trying to make a buck. Can't fault that.
That's a common theme, these days.
I was at the local Auto Zone, in a non-peak time...the manager was there, alone. Aside from dumb questions over the phone (I knew they were dumb because the answers he gave, and had to repeat, over and over) he had little to do. He helped me find my thing, and then I commented on how he was the Maytag Repairman of parts.
We went on to discussing his help situation. He had mostly new hires - of course; nobody makes that kind of job a career. But he was amazed that they were so STUPID.
He's not Jabbed, but he wasn't plugged into the events around the Clot Shot. He just never got it because he didn't see he needed it. Like a shingles shot, or flu shot.
So, when I pointed out that most young people in the area have had the Jab...and that it causes neurological impairment...Brain Fog, like suffering a bad hangover...he was amazed. "That's exactly what they're like," he said. Obviously they were not retarded and had good previous-employment backgrounds, but they couldn't focus, couldn't remember. Sequential tasks had to be written down for them; and they couldn't easily learn new tasks.
I have to remember that, as I deal with WinCo and Walmart cashiers who're struggling to make change or enter produce into the checkout computer terminal.