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blu posted...

Imagine if they didnt have those belts and scanners. What would happen? Theyd need more cashiers or need to sell less stuff or ask customers to spend much longer in line instead of going next door to Walmart.

Being able to sell more stuff lets you into more business strategies, like low profits on any item but make up for it in volume. The lower cost next door option will destroy you.

They don't have the room for them. Also, hiring more people is different than firing. For example, a store could have 10 employees, then got scanners and belt that made it easier an faster. Because of that, the store could get stuff done faster. Which means more customers can get their items. When they belts and scanners go down, they higher more people (normally temps) to help out until they're back up. But just because they would hire more people when the scanners and belts break down doesn't mean they fired anyone when they first got them. When they got them, it's possible they hired more because more people were able to shop... And more cashiers would make people not go to Wal-Mart. Some would go because of the hassle...

And if they wanted to sell more stuff, they should have less self-checkouts. The lines would be horrendous if everyone had to use them... it would take at least three times as long to buy stuff... And probably longer...
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