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That most certainly isn’t happening here.Not going to happen.At the time self-checkout stations were put in, just about everybody said they would replace the cashiers wholesale in a short time.This is absolute idiocy.
Automation has actually slowed down a ton since the 90s, and 12 years will mean basically nothing in the grand scheme of things.
Machines can’t even replace incompetent teenagers behind the counter of a McDonalds yet.
Even the automated cashier stations at Walmart are starting to lose their appeal, and they implemented that shit a half a decade ago.
Well that's what it's about. It's up to the people whether to accept automation or not. As for myself, I only went to a self-checkout line in the grocery store when I was in a hurry one time. Other than that, I refuse to use them.
Wendy's adds automation to the fast-food menu
5 years later my Walmart still has a tiny and cramped section for self-checkout that barely anyone uses, while the cashier lines are almost always full.
Automation is failing everywhere except assembly lines.
The only reason for that is because the stores don't offer a discount for using them. When self-serve gasoline pumps first came out, it was an idea by a gas station owner who didn't want his mechanics stopping all the time to pump gasoline. So they started to install self-serve pumps and offered a few cents less per gallon on gasoline. Before you knew it, everybody was trying to save money on gasoline and self-serve exploded.
If stores figure that strategy out, they will do the same. Eventually (like full serve gasoline pumps) people will just get used to checking themselves out. Then they will eventually take the discount away and we will be stuck with self-serve checkouts.
Pumping gas and cashiering are far different. You are talking about replacing a secondary function(a mechanic pumping gas)versus replacing a primary function(a cashier....cashiering)
Currently the self-checkout is just a weak substitute for the “15 items or less” lines that are starting to come back in spite of it. It is far more time efficient for a competent cashier to ring up and bag your items no matter how many you have.
The biggest weakness of self-checkout is that it is impossible to even checkout more than 20 items without running out of space to bag all the items on the counter at the same time(which you have to do if you don’t want the machine to think you are stealing LOL).At best you can only check out a lot of items if you do multiple transactions and waste a ton of time(and space).
What the stores are doing now is opening up more self-checkouts and less cashier checkouts. They want to pressure people into those self-checkout lines to eventually replace cashiers. You may have four or five people in lines at the cashier and nobody in the self-checkout line.
All stores today would get rid of their cashiers and force us into self-checkouts, but they have to be concerned about their number one competition, and that is online shopping. Grocery stores would have nothing to worry about, however, for all other items, Americans might choose online shopping instead of the headache of shopping in person then having to check yourself out.
What the stores are doing now is opening up more self-checkouts and less cashier checkouts. They want to pressure people into those self-checkout lines to eventually replace cashiers. You may have four or five people in lines at the cashier and nobody in the self-checkout line.
What the stores are doing now is opening up more self-checkouts and less cashier checkouts. They want to pressure people into those self-checkout lines to eventually replace cashiers. You may have four or five people in lines at the cashier and nobody in the self-checkout line.
Only mentally retarded people and shitheads complain about self-checkouts.
Before self-checkouts were a gleam in any managers eye, checkouts were a pain. During busy periods, you'd have to wait a long time. And, you'd be annoyed when you saw another line move faster, or if you were stuck behind a retarded customer who takes "forever".
With self-checkouts, I rarely have to wait more than a few moments to checkout. And, some stores are allowing phones to be used as self-checkout tools, meaning never having to wait to checkout.
Don't worry, stores will keep at least one manned checkout lane for the mentally-retarded customers who have problems swinging an item over a scanner and dropping it into a bag, you know those idiots who are challenged enough by swinging an item over a conveyor belt and dropping it. You should really pay someone to do your shopping for you (Walmart know offers that service) and STFU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I mean, it's sad of you to drag you butt through the isles and having to load your cart yourself. It's like your trying to put workers out of a job.
Folks better get an education. Low skill manual labor jobs are gonna be much harder to come by in the future. Machines can do almost everything more efficiently than humans. Better get educated folks.
I doubt your Walmarts get that much business. Checking out 20 items at a time without any cashier training is vastly inferior to someone who takes pride in their speedy transactions just breezing through your 300 items like it is nothing and possibly helping you carry some of them to your car.
In 20 years I half expect technology to actually start moving backwards, if not completely halted by vast ethnic and racial conflict stopping peacetime technological development.
We have moved basically nowhere from the late 90s compared to where we thought we would.
Folks better get an education. Low skill manual labor jobs are gonna be much harder to come by in the future. Machines can do almost everything more efficiently than humans. Better get educated folks.
Most people will feel the same way about the kiosks soon.
I'm interested to see one. If it can get my Quarter Pounder with Cheese, NO pickles or Onions for me, I'll be satisfied.
The days of growing up to work in your daddy's factory are long gone. We need to retool our education system for the jobs of tomorrow, not the jobs of yesterday.
McKinsey: automation may wipe out 1/3 of America’s workforce by 2030
In a new study that is optimistic about automation yet stark in its appraisal of the challenge ahead, McKinsey says massive government intervention will be required to hold societies together against the ravages of labor disruption over the next 13 years. Up to 800 million people—including a third of the work force in the U.S. and Germany—will be made jobless by 2030, the study says.
The bottom line: The economy of most countries will eventually replace the lost jobs, the study says, but many of the unemployed will need considerable help to shift to new work, and salaries could continue to flatline. "It's a Marshall Plan size of task," Michael Chui, lead author of the McKinsey report, tells Axios.
Translation: Stop drinking the piss of politicians who tell you they will bring back the jobs that went overseas. The jobs didn't go overseas. They have been automated and are never coming back.
Read this, too: https://economics.mit.edu/files/12763
Between 1993 and 2007, every new robot replaced between 3 and 5.6 workers.
Read this: http://conexus.cberdata.org/files/MfgReality.pdf
"Almost 88 percent of job losses in manufacturing in recent years can be attributable to productivity growth, and the long-term changes to manufacturing employment are mostly linked to the productivity of American factories.”
Gone, baby, gone. Those jobs are not coming back. Ever. Anyone who promises you they are is a fucking criminal liar.
When a shitbag politician tells you he is going to bring back those lost jobs with tariffs and trade deals, he is talking out of his ass. He is being fucking lazy and hoping you are too ignorant to catch on.
We need to start burning those politicians at the stake, and start forcing their replacements to retool our entire education system.
Back to Axios:
- The transition compares to the U.S. shift from a largely agricultural to an industrial-services economy in the early 1900s forward. But this time, it's not young people leaving farms, but mid-career workers who need new skills. "There are few precedents in which societies have successfully retrained such large numbers of people," the report says, and that is the key question: how do you retrain people in their 30s, 40s and 50s for entirely new professions?
Wake up, America. You're children are being robbed of a future by elected hucksters.
Soon it'll be as easy as saying, "Hey Google, I want a Quarter Pounder with Cheese, NO pickles or Onions." But, for now, you have to do some tapping on a touch screen, which is only slightly daunting the first time you do it. And, I prefer to do it myself to make sure the order is right.
You said: I'll step back and watch the Department crumble, as there are types of work I do that nobody else in the Department can do.
Pure fantasy.
My sister's husband had that attitude. Because his job was specialized. He said again and again the department would fall apart without him. One day he got too mouthy and they couldn't take it anymore.
They found someone else. There is always someone else.No one is irreplaceable. No one.
Maybe next time, they'll outsource it to India.
Just need to buy the AG off.
i will be 134 years old by then, so it wont affect meI agree that technology is going to eliminate many repetitive labor time jobs. I don't believe it is the fault of politicians. They will need to start figuring out what the heck you do with 15 to 20% unemployment.
Brings back a song Automation from My Son the Nut album (1963) my parents bought me some 54 years ago.
Time to think about 30 hour work weeks.
The amount of value created by a single worker is much greater than a worker of the past, but our wages are not reflecting that.
I would be first in line for that puppy! Give me 3 10 hour days and I am golden!
There is a flip side we also have to implement.
We are living longer, we should be working longer. Common sense.
Social Security and Medicare eligibility age needs to be changed to 70, indexed to 9 percent of the population.
