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JigsawTDC posted...

I think you did state as much from the beginning or close to it. Didn't stop any of us from trying lol.

I'm not going to debate anything, but since self-checkout has been brought up many, many times, this is probably a worthwhile anecdote: I've worked at several grocery stores in the past, two of which implemented self-checkouts while I was there. In both cases we didn't fire anyone. In fact, in one of the cases we hired two new people because we had to promote some cashiers to self-checkout monitors.

Also, self-checkouts are pretty much just a normal cashier terminal minus the cash drawer and second display. The primary difference between them and a normal terminal isn't any of the features the customer interacts with, but the internal system of how it sorts and organizes cash.

They were hiring at first, but theyve gone the other way recently. Like at the Walmarts here. Self-checkout was here for a while, but they also had tons of cashiers during the day. Theyve gone down to just a few. Many of them were fired. The firing on employees is somewhat recent. Like in the last few years. Thats one of the things that made me stop liking self-checkout. When people were still able to work, it was fine. When they started firing people over it, thats when it became less fine...

And I know how to use one and can just them easily. I have no problem with the technology itself. I have a problem with people losing their job to it...
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