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Originally Posted by berettafan
My new favorite podcast suggests rising min wage and pain in the ass don't wanna work pothead punks are directly stimulating creation of robots that will fully staff fast food joints in the very near future. IOW the discussion as relates to fast food jobs is pointless cause there aren't gonna be any.
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The grocery store we like, is a Homeland. We prefer to shop on Sunday mornings when the crowds are very minimal. They can't hire a regular cashier at all. The job opening just goes unfilled. The store has gone to self check out. So I am the check out person for us.
We we do shop at Sam's we walk in, pick out what we need, I whip out my phone, and run the Sam's app. Poke a button to scan now, scan the items, count the total number of items and if that is what we scanned, slide a button, and pay the amount with my credit card on file. We then walk out, and the person at the door scans a QT code on my phone, and two items in the cart, and we walk out. No check out people needed for us, never a line to wait in.
They have a riding vacuum cleaner that mops the floor and vacuums it. In the past there was a man on it. Now it is just a robot, it just stops in place if you get within a 10 feet of it. It just cruises on past all by itself.
We will for sure see robots and automation replace a lot of jobs. It is all because of the lazy employees that will not show up, and want 30 bucks an hour to do little as possible when they do show up.
We are a long way off from a robot that will replace a decent waitress or waiter at a regular restaurant. Fast food places already have automated ordering, and the customer goes and picks up the food.