Shopping carts that lock and security gates? Shoppers sound off on retailers' anti-theft tactics
Shopping carts that lock and security gates? Shoppers sound off on retailers' anti-theft tactics
This is what happens when you try to "save" money by forcing people to use self-checkout.
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I will more than happily use self checkouts over waiting for a cashier, we only have so much time in this life and i refuse to waste it standing in line.
Maybe, but technically the company is getting free labour out of you. if you are fine with your labour being free then continue on and enjoy
Ist shopping on the sales floor free labor. Back when you would hand your shopping list to a worker and the would give you all your stuff. (funny enough online pickup has kinda brought that back). Things change over time
As someone else mentioned doing online pickup forces them to hire staff. I don't mind wandering because sometimes I'm not buying, I'm comparing etc. But eliminating 10 cashiers to have customers scan their own, only helps the corporations steal more money from workers.
Yes, much more staff is hired for online shopping
However funny enough some store increased the hours they had for the front end, I worked for a Walmart that did a conversation and they added like 400 hours to the schedule for monitoring and running the registers. Biggest thing is now they can have 20 registers open and pay for 4 cashiers, before they would have just only had the 3 cashiers and 3 registers. So I would not say the self checkout took jobs, it changed how the job is done
I wish we had that out here, but here it used to be 15-20 lanes open, now it is maybe 4 and 20 self scan, but only two employees doing self scan. you get 2 people mess up and those employees are busy and so now you are stuck waiting in line for your self scan that went weird. also only a quarter of self scan actually are usable, the rest have the red light saying it is messed up
do the order online thing(for anything that's not fresh product), so they have to hire people do the shopping, scan, and bag/box and you just go pick up. (it's mostly free atm for pick ups just need to be above certain amount of dollar spent.) So you go, buy fresh product, then go pick up the bagged ones.
Good plan actually. However I noticed the store here has different prices online vs instore, they have a built in markup online.
That should be illegal since eventually they will try to charge the service, and guess who would use this kind of service more? People with disabilities or have less time to do shopping in store. They should just list the same price and put service charge in the bill.(so I know how much they charge for paying the person that did the shopping for online orders. ) Inflating online price should be called out and make blog post, send to media etc and shut down that behavior.
I guess they should also have an employee walk around the store and pick out all my groceries too then? Since walking around and putting stuff in my cart is also labour.
As far as I'm concerned time is worth far more than money, money only has value because people give it value.
This. And the same goes for work in general. Doing work only has value because we attached money to it. People saying that scanning your own 10 items at the grocery store is labor and you should be paid accordingly... I'll always respect peoples' opinions and values, but something has to give if we feel as a society that that is worth compensation.
That is to say, the free labor for the corporations is not lost on me, I'm just thinking bigger picture. The budding socio-anarchist in me wants to burn the system to the ground and watch what rebuilds.
We were doomed from the start, damn those dank river valleys for establishing commerce and social hierarchy!