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18 points

Not gonna lie, I’d rather not have to have a checker make minimum wage and be on food stamps.

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8 points

Technically they’re not wrong. Someone at walmart has to source and buy the self scanners. 🤷‍♂️

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4 points

Walmart: “Yeah sorry, not that job. Procurement pays too well.”

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74 points

no, sorry. we shouldnt lament jobs replaced by automation/easier to use systems. we should be pissed that billionares like the waltons arent taxed at 100%, and that their lowest paid employee makes thousand of times less than the management.

otehrwise youre just a buggy-whip maker shouting into the darkness

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16 points

Yup, we should be demanding things like UBI, good gov provided housing and healthcare funded by proper taxing of the rich.

Not futily fighting against progress, if the job can be automated well and efficiently then the job shouldn’t exist anymore.

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1 point

UBI is nice but is a bandaid solution that doesnt really address the problem. We should be looking into extinguishing billionaires as a class.

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4 points

Woah calm down Lucifer! You need steady hands to work the guillotine.

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2 points

Easier to use? That shit is not easier, it’s exactly what the cashier does, but now you are doing it for free.

If it was a system where you dump your shit and it totals it for you, that would be easier.

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2 points

Thank you! I hate doing self checkout unless i have like 2 or 3 things. Thats how it even started anyways, most shops had them as express lanes for shoppers with just a couple things to buy. If i have more than one bag’s worth of groceries I’m going to let someone else who is paid to scan and bag do it for me.

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5 points

When I’m shopping I want to get my stuff, and get out, even when I buy a lot of stuff. I do that faster than waiting in line for a register on average. Plus then i don’t have to talk to someone which is nice.

There should be both. Self check and a few clerks. Let people choose.

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2 points

Large monopsonic companies like Walmart and Amazon already do central planning. They should simply be nationalized and run for public benefit and their owners should be brought up on charges.

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6 points

With the money Walmarts saves by hiring less clerks, they could pass part of those savings onto you as a customer and have cheaper products!

But they instead increase prices anyway. Kill the Walton family.

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34 points

does nobody else notice this is absolutely and obviously an ai generated image?

not to say that wal-mart is helping anyone at all. but this was clearly designed to spark outrage.

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7 points

… shit.

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2 points

Is it AI generated, though? AI generated images usually mangle letters pretty badly and everything seems to be legible here.

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9 points

Look at the products or the text in the background. I thought the text was photoshopped but turns out it was generated as well.

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4 points

So they are, statement withdrawn. I wasn’t paying that much attention to the signs in the background and sure enough, the rightmost sign’s M and R look a bit off and the “Investing in” part is completely scrambled.

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4 points

Damn, they got me good.

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