Swedish grocery store without employees, is this trend unstoppable?

[marylander1940]

Swedish grocery store without employees, coming soon to America?

 

Is this trend unstoppable?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2L7q5IqthM

[seaboy4hire]

Interesting concept. I don'tsee the big grocery stores moving to this model, the unions would be in an uproar. Smaller companies that aren't union would fare better.

 

Hugs,

Greg

[+ purplekow]

This is a blatant divert. At the end of the video for the employeeless supermarket was this video.

[marylander1940]

Interesting concept. I don'tsee the big grocery stores moving to this model, the unions would be in an uproar. Smaller companies that aren't union would fare better.

 

Hugs,

Greg

 

 

Nearby there's a Harris teeter with 4 automatic cashiers, and just 2 person working in the other cash registers. Cameras all over the place and I'm sure other electronic ways to check noting is stolen. I'm aware that automatic cashier don't work often, the manager is usually right there.

 

I remember talking to a person to print my ticket, and handling her my bag, now in IAD passengers print their tickets, weigh bags, attach the baggage claim sticker, and if it wasn't for a representative of the airline checking the ID and ticket (something TSA will do later anyways) there would be no human contact.

 

Are you old enough to remember a guy pumping your gas and you doing it by yourself?

 

http://acimg.auctivacommerce.com/imgdata/0/2/9/3/1/4/webimg/5373343.jpg

[+ ArVaGuy]

Several fully automated hotels have opened in Japan, Norway, and Germany. Many lower wage jobs are going to be replaced by automation due to high labor cost. Robots don't (yet) demand "living wages" nor do they need a vacation or expensive health care.

 

The last few decades have seen jobs move off shore to lower wage countries. The next couple of decades will see automation replace even more workers. It's going to be a Brave New World that's for sure.

[marylander1940]

Several fully automated hotels have opened in Japan, Norway, and Germany. Many lower wage jobs are going to be replaced by automation due to high labor cost. Robots don't (yet) demand "living wages" nor do they need a vacation or expensive health care.

 

The last few decades have seen jobs move off shore to lower wage countries. The next couple of decades will see automation replace even more workers. It's going to be a Brave New World that's for sure.

 

Maybe robots need to lobbyst..

[seaboy4hire]

Nearby there's a Harris teeter with 4 automatic cashiers, and just 2 person working in the other cash registers. Cameras all over the place and I'm sure other electronic ways to check noting is stolen. I'm aware that automatic cashier don't work often, the manager is usually right there.

 

I remember talking to a person to print my ticket, and handling her my bag, now in IAD passengers print their tickets, weigh bags, attach the baggage claim sticker, and if it wasn't for a representative of the airline checking the ID and ticket (something TSA will do later anyways) there would be no human contact.

 

Are you old enough to remember a guy pumping your gas and you doing it by yourself?

 

http://acimg.auctivacommerce.com/imgdata/0/2/9/3/1/4/webimg/5373343.jpg

 

The self check outs are a pain in the ass. I ran them at a grocery store when I lived in Seattle. I don't remember having someone pump gas ever when I lived in Washington state but I do remember trips to Oregon as a kid and someone pumping the gas for us.

 

Hugs,

Greg

[+ purplekow]

Come to NJ gas is cheap and is pumped for you by law.

[+ Truereview]

Come to NJ gas is cheap and is pumped for you by law.

As an aside, I was doing a consulting job in Princeton last year and there is a really cute gas station attendant off exit 9 on the turnpike that will pump more than gas if you tip nicely... Early 20s, Lebanese, great bod, hung, cute grin, if memory serves me right it was Sunoco. I hope to return for a tune-up. Your neighborhood slut, -TR

[AdamSmith]

As an aside, I was doing a consulting job in Princeton last year and there is a really cute gas station attendant off exit 9 on the turnpike that will pump more than gas if you tip nicely... Early 20s, Lebanese, great bod, hung, cute grin, if memory serves me right it was Sunoco. I hope to return for a tune-up. Your neighborhood slut, -TR

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[marylander1940]

The self check outs are a pain in the ass. I ran them at a grocery store when I lived in Seattle. I don't remember having someone pump gas ever when I lived in Washington state but I do remember trips to Oregon as a kid and someone pumping the gas for us.

 

Hugs,

Greg

 

nothing beats 0% sales tax...

 

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[jjkrkwood]

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[bigvalboy]

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[marylander1940]

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I didn't know yoga was so useful...

 

 

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[+ friendofsheila]

Yeah, America totally needs one more excuse to avoid talking to live humans....

[BgMstr4u]

Automation has been on the march for quite a long time, but only recently have people - outside those already "made redundant" (as the Brits say) - paid much attention. But put the word robot in and suddenly - poof! - everyone is listening.

 

As we should. In every possible way more and more work is being automated or robotized. A job here, a job there. This bit, that bit. Fewer and fewer jobs for more and more people, and a lot of the jobs that continue are low paying, physical, sometimes menial work. Skilled and semi-skilled work that can't be robotized is being pushed down the pay scale as fast as it can be, outsourced to "independent contractors", skilled people willing to work for less, or sent to countries where employees are cheaper and easier to manage.

 

This is not something that can be reversed presto/change-o with political slogans or new laws or tariffs, though improving the business environment, especially for small and middle sized businesses can help. Depressing as it is, employment as we have known it is shrinking and that will probably continue. It's not anyone's fault but a consequence of an economy based on better bottom line outcomes. Alternative economic systems don't work much better, unfortunately.

 

What to do? In the short term, make it more attractive to make things, do business, here at home. In the longer term, make ourselves less cash dependent so being employed is not the only way to support our lives. Pay off our debts and live, as much as is possible, debt-free. Save our money. Create more of what we need on our own. Grow stuff, make stuff, create actual value at home, discriminate when purchasing by buying what is made in our own economic sphere. Build up local economies. Simplify. Live better on less. Build stronger local communities. Value products and services that employ actual people, beginning with people we actually know. Find emotional satisfaction and personal validation outside of cash-transfer contexts, so our value as persons both to ourselves and others rests on other bases than how much we have and how much we spend but on who we are, what we know, the quality of our interactions and the range and power of our love.

 

And to start with, refuse to use automatic checkouts. Insist on the checkout line run by a human teller. Tell the manager, in as nice a way as possible, that automating will make it less likely that you will buy from them.

[jjkrkwood]

Yeah, America totally needs one more excuse to avoid talking to live humans....

 

FOS, I usually do much better talking to Myself than to Others !

[marylander1940]

Yeah, America totally needs one more excuse to avoid talking to live humans....

 

yes no doubt but sometimes people are pissed off getting paid wages of starvation and they really give you an attitude... so many employees playing with their iPhones, etc.

 

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