I rather like the self checkouts. They don't throw all your shit through as fast as possible then stare at you like you've just punched a baby to make you go away quicker.
I rather like the self checkouts. They don't throw all your shit through as fast as possible then stare at you like you've just punched a baby to make you go away quicker.I tend not to use them unless I'm really in a hurry and have only a few items. On the few occasions I have used them, they seem to have a habit of going wrong and flash their red lights to summon a supervisor to and sort it out also of course each one of those things is actually taking someone's job away from them. It might not be a highly paid job, but it was helping to feed a family somewhere.
Most of our supermarkets have these installed and more going in all the time, even in stores like Lidl and Aldi
Some tschilpies (looks like sea swallows) at the pond where I am currently trying to shed fat.
Yep. Nothing wrong with that either. Also delivery drivers get paid a lot more than the actual supermarket checkout staff do.
Interestingly perhaps, our supermarket delivery vans here are mostly electric now as well.
Of course, back in the day, the local shops delivered stuff anyway, as nobody had cars (e.g. Jack Jones the Butcher's van). In a way, we are just returning to that way of trading.
Time are changing. The machines we create, including the software I create, replaces people. Time we adjusted society to get used to the notion that not everyone will have regular jobs and will need to lead a comfortable life still. This is difficult because of stigma around “scroungers” and unemployment after the press rampage for the last 40 years or so. Neither are a crime. Being forced into labour or starve in 2021 notably is a crime in my eyes.
I’m a proponent of basic income for all and taxation to pay for it.
I rather like the self checkouts. They don't throw all your shit through as fast as possible then stare at you like you've just punched a baby to make you go away quicker.
Then your businesses aren't hiring well or training at all. The crews at all the local Supermarkets are over chatty (can be a minor fail even with a few ) in my experience and there is nothing thrown anywhere. So either you or the businesses staff you go to are so jaded and fail completely at basic politeness and interaction skills.
I have spent most of the last two decades until a few years ago hiring and only rarely firing (two) people for up front Customer service jobs in small Business. If the staff cant be pleasant and engaging to the customers then they don't get hired. One fired for being incompetent after six months of trying and the other staff had had it with them too and the other threatened another member of staff so I frog marched them to the door on the spot.
Yep. Nothing wrong with that either. Also delivery drivers get paid a lot more than the actual supermarket checkout staff do.
Interestingly perhaps, our supermarket delivery vans here are mostly electric now as well.
Yeah, unless you drive for Uber, etc. Then you make just enuf to pay for the car you're driving the wheels off of while they take your profit margin.
mnem
Might want to check out Ocado here...
Unless I've been living under a rock for the past 67 years I've never seen any local grocery chain offer delivery. And what inventory system they did have was far from accurate. And going back further was on pieces of paper.
You just don't want to consider my point, which is nothing new.
Yep. Nothing wrong with that either. Also delivery drivers get paid a lot more than the actual supermarket checkout staff do.
Interestingly perhaps, our supermarket delivery vans here are mostly electric now as well.
Yeah, unless you drive for Uber, etc. Then you make just enuf to pay for the car you're driving the wheels off of while they take your profit margin.
mnem
Well, in order for a grocery chain to have pickup/delivery service that demands they have an excellent and user friendly inventory system so customers can easily select their items. That means they must have highly skilled and well paid IT professionals to manage it. And as new features are added I'm sure more employment will be gained. So maybe, just maybe, these large corporations that you always profess to be evil aren't so bad after all.
Unless I've been living under a rock for the past 67 years I've never seen any local grocery chain offer delivery. And what inventory system they did have was far from accurate. And going back further was on pieces of paper.
You just don't want to consider my point, which is nothing new.
Maybe you have. Or maybe you just never shopped at those grocery stores...? I dunno.
mnem
Yeah that's the point of technology. To free us from slavery. You're demanding slavery back there.
See my comment about basic income earlier. The future is going to be different. There's not enough jobs for everyone. And that should be fine. But you've bought into the stigma around it.