Like most people will ever be able to afford retirement anyway.
We live in a capitalist dystopia
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Sure. Just put them on some inconsequential "project" while you collect their fifteen an hour. They're obviously more interested in making a quick buck than finding the next Alan Turing.
This is a years old hoax. This job listing did exist on Indeed and it was up there long enough for someone to take a screenshot (quite possibly the same person who made the listing) but there's no evidence that the company ever existed.
The concept does exist though. That's the """""job""""" you get when you join a pyramid scheme.
The concept does exist though. That's the """""job""""" you get when you join a pyramid scheme.
Oh gee, billionaire psychopaths are billionaires and psychopaths.
FB friend:
Self-checkout may soon be a subscription service.
www.walb.com
They will NEVER be happy until they have ALL the money.
Walmart, Target may be testing limits on self-checkouts
Changes might be coming to self-checkout lanes.
www.walb.com
They will NEVER be happy until they have ALL the money.
I swear, you barely glance through the articles instead of READ them...Self-checkout may soon be a subscription service.
Walmart, Target may be testing limits on self-checkouts
Changes might be coming to self-checkout lanes.
They will NEVER be happy until they have ALL the money.
Tl;dr-
Walmart and Target (and pretty much every other retailer, including Dollar General) are re-evaluating the use of Self Checkouts in light of a massive uptick in shrinkage (losses due to theft, damage, etc) and customer dissatisfaction/complaints. Target is shifting theirs to more of an "Express Lane" option, in addition to more staffed lanes.
On Walmart's end (and what Paladin eluded to) was that SOME stores, in addition to more staffed lanes, are setting aside the self check out areas for use by Spark (Walmart's foray into the Uber/DoorDash delivery service) and "Scan and Go" customers. Scan and Go is only available in conjunction with the Walmart+ premium service.
So... what Paladin said?
There was a bit more nuance to what his statement implied. Again, it isn't widespread, and the article even mentions that Self Checkout will probably "flex" from being reserved to expedite Scan and Go and Spark to operating normally.
The Walmart rep also reported that "it is up to the discretion" to how Self checkout is utilized. Target says their policies haven't changed at all, so it's probably up to the individual stores' managers.
AS OF RIGHT NOW, Neither Target nor Walmart, at a national level, are not restricting access to their self checkout systems
Self checkout as a thing seems to be dying in canada (at least in my corner of it.) with only walmart and the dollar store even offering access to the self cashes anymore.
I'm not surprised. Speaking from personal experience, the machines are so unreliable that most of the time you have to press the Call Cashier button and have them sort it out anyway. All they've succeeded in doing is making the few cashiers they have left work twice as hard.
The whole point was to reduce the number of cashiers needed and cut back on payroll. Didn't quite occur to them that maybe people aren't going to be entirely honest. Or that most of the underpaid employees assigned to watch the things aren't all that motivated to do much about it.
No, it occurred to them. That's why they programmed the machines to error out and make you call the cashier over if it encounters a single item that won't scan on the first try. Because they had no idea how often that happens (because wasting the one second it takes to rescan a single item was no big deal to the cashiers even if it happened with every single customer) and assumed it always means someone's trying to cheat.
Not my local Winn-Dixie. They've got a guy whose only job is to come sort out the machine when it inevitably fails. He just stands there and waits for it, because it happens every time. They actually should get rid of the machine and have the guy just work a normal lane.