Amazon opens a supermarket with no checkouts (1 Viewer)

[Sinn Fein]

Amazon opens a supermarket with no checkouts

We are inching closer to automation taking out another set of low-paying jobs.

I have to think that this becomes the norm in 5-10 years.

 

[SHIZNITTTT]

The local grocery store here delivers for a fee of 99 bucks a year.   Maybe these people can all become grocery drivers if their checkout jobs become extinct? 

 

[The Future Champs]

The local grocery store here delivers for a fee of 99 bucks a year.   Maybe these people can all become grocery drivers if their checkout jobs become extinct? 

Self driving cars and robots are going to destroy those jobs.

 

[NeverEnough]

The local grocery store here delivers for a fee of 99 bucks a year.   Maybe these people can all become grocery drivers if their checkout jobs become extinct? 

Several stores around here deliver. I'm unsure of the fees. However, I'll pick out my own produce & meat.

 

[belljr]

i use the grocery store - shopper.

We pay I think 8 bucks - place our order online someone picks out the stuff - and I pick it up.

Of course not all options are available or the teenage kid doing it always screws something up

 

[NutterButter]

Self driving cars and robots are going to destroy those jobs.

Many millions of jobs are going bye bye in the next 20 years.   Its going to be a wild transformation.   

 

[Mr. Ected]

I see this more as a replacement for a convenience store than a full on grocery store.

There has been something that follows the same concept and has been in existence for a number of years in the Giant/Stop and Shop chain. You take a hand held scanner and scan the items as you place them into your bags and when you check out you go thru a self-checkout that retrieves the scanned items from your scanner.

I think the Amazon store is trying too hard.

 

[Warrior]

I see this more as a replacement for a convenience store than a full on grocery store.

There has been something that follows the same concept and has been in existence for a number of years in the Giant/Stop and Shop chain. You take a hand held scanner and scan the items as you place them into your bags and when you check out you go thru a self-checkout that retrieves the scanned items from your scanner.

I think the Amazon store is trying too hard.

Much easier to just not do all those things you listed.

 

[EYLive]

When "low-paying" jobs are $15/hour, we can look forward to more computers and robots taking over.

 

[Ilov80s]

The local grocery store here delivers for a fee of 99 bucks a year.   Maybe these people can all become grocery drivers if their checkout jobs become extinct? 

The idea of actually even going to a grocery store is bordering on passé. 

 

[Galileo]

I see this more as a replacement for a convenience store than a full on grocery store.

There has been something that follows the same concept and has been in existence for a number of years in the Giant/Stop and Shop chain. You take a hand held scanner and scan the items as you place them into your bags and when you check out you go thru a self-checkout that retrieves the scanned items from your scanner.

I think the Amazon store is trying too hard.

I scan from an app on my phone when I go to Sam's Club...then just show the bar code to the person at the exit door. 

 

[mr. furley]

I'll pick out my own produce & meat.

like letting your kid eat hot lunch at public school, imo. sure, it's "food" but the quality might not be up to acceptable standards every time.

i'd rather just choose my own.

 

[Scoresman]

I hope this takes off as supermarkets are the most annoying places on earth, but they also need to do the following:

- Get rid of those carts with the little cars in front for kids to sit in.  There's already very little room in the store for everyone and their carts.  These things are annoying as hell.

- On that note, kids should not be allowed in supermarkets at all.  I hate it when you see a mom bring her 5 kids with her to the market.  They just get in the way.  Leave them in the car with the dog.  One person per household is all that should be allowed in.  

- Make shopping carts require that you put your car keys inside a locked compartment, and the compartment will only open back up if the shopping cart is within the shopping cart return area.  No more shopping carts left in parking spaces.  

 

[ShamrockPride]

So what are going to be the options for minimum wage workers in a couple decades? Do we have some form of guaranteed income, or do we just have half the country out of jobs living in American Slums?

 

[NutterButter]

I hope this takes off as supermarkets are the most annoying places on earth, but they also need to do the following:

- Get rid of those carts with the little cars in front for kids to sit in.  There's already very little room in the store for everyone and their carts.  These things are annoying as hell.

- On that note, kids should not be allowed in supermarkets at all.  I hate it when you see a mom bring her 5 kids with her to the market.  They just get in the way.  Leave them in the car with the dog.  One person per household is all that should be allowed in.  

- Make shopping carts require that you put your car keys inside a locked compartment, and the compartment will only open back up if the shopping cart is within the shopping cart return area.  No more shopping carts left in parking spaces.  

And old people are only allowed in stores before 11am and between the hours of 2-5 on weekdays.    That's plenty of time to buy your quart of milk.   Stop clogging up the stores for the rest of us working folks.   

 

[NutterButter]

So what are going to be the options for minimum wage workers in a couple decades? Do we have some form of guaranteed income, or do we just have half the country out of jobs living in American Slums?

Let's assume nothing.   What percentage of people would be out of work?

 

[Binky The Doormat]

i use the grocery store - shopper.

We pay I think 8 bucks - place our order online someone picks out the stuff - and I pick it up.

Of course not all options are available or the teenage kid doing it always screws something up

I can see this for someone who hates the grocery store - and you're the first I have heard about always getting something messed up.  I suspected that - especially since I now run into these people all over Kroger.  I asked one kid where the artichoke hearts were ...got a blank stare and then he said, "What's an artichoke heart?" 

I would also miss out on any comparison shopping.  I am weird in that I have always enjoyed grocery shopping and meal planning.  

 

[Sheriff Bart]

I can see this for someone who hates the grocery store - and you're the first I have heard about always getting something messed up.  I suspected that - especially since I now run into these people all over Kroger.  I asked one kid where the artichoke hearts were ...got a blank stare and then he said, "What's an artichoke heart?" 

I would also miss out on any comparison shopping.  I am weird in that I have always enjoyed grocery shopping and meal planning.  

I just learned they sell gravy in jars at the grocery store. GRAVY!!! Going to eat so many great roast beef sandwiches. 

 

[Galileo]

I can see this for someone who hates the grocery store - and you're the first I have heard about always getting something messed up.  I suspected that - especially since I now run into these people all over Kroger.  I asked one kid where the artichoke hearts were ...got a blank stare and then he said, "What's an artichoke heart?" 

I would also miss out on any comparison shopping.  I am weird in that I have always enjoyed grocery shopping and meal planning.  

My wife hates the grocery store.  I don't mind it at all.  I hate doing laundry (specifically folding the laundry).  We made a deal before we got married that she would do laundry and I would do the grocery shopping.  I easily won out on that deal.  

 

[Binky The Doormat]

I just learned they sell gravy in jars at the grocery store. GRAVY!!! Going to eat so many great roast beef sandwiches. 

ah ...a connoisseur!

 

[Warhogs]

So what are going to be the options for minimum wage workers in a couple decades? Do we have some form of guaranteed income, or do we just have half the country out of jobs living in American Slums?

They will just collect their government paycheck.

 

[EYLive]

They will just collect their government paycheck.

Pretty much. If people can't work more efficiently or become more cost-effective workers, then we'll just pay them to stay out of the way. And they won't receive any more money if they have kids.

 

[dutch]

I just learned they sell gravy in jars at the grocery store. GRAVY!!! Going to eat so many great roast beef sandwiches. 

Yup!  Get premium, rare toast beef from the deli, some steak fries in frozen and a jar of Heinz au jus and you got a meal.  Heat rb in au jus and slather over bread, voila, open face delight!

 

[mr. furley]

My wife hates the grocery store.  I don't mind it at all.  I hate doing laundry (specifically folding the laundry).  We made a deal before we got married that she would do laundry and I would do the grocery shopping.  I easily won out on that deal.  

my wife and i made the same deal, except replace "laundry" with "nothing" and "grocery shopping" with "everything". and it wasn't a deal. it was just an assumption.

 

[Sheriff Bart]

Yup!  Get premium, rare toast beef from the deli, some steak fries in frozen and a jar of Heinz au jus and you got a meal.  Heat rb in au jus and slather over bread, voila, open face delight!

 I kept hearing Subway commercials during football and they claimed to have Black Forest ham which I figured was bull####. Did some Googles and apparently here in 'murica you can claim stuff that isn't true where in Europe you can't. So Black Forest ham is a specially cured ham, similar to prosciutto, from that region in Germany.  I had never had it so ordered some online.  So my sandwich was BF ham, angus roast beef, Genoa salami and gravy on garlic cheese bread. It was pretty great. 

 

[Sheriff Bart]

I also LOVE grocery shopping because there was a time I was on a strict budget and now I can afford anything I want. 

 

[ShamrockPride]

Let's assume nothing.   What percentage of people would be out of work?

Per BLS:

In 2016, 79.9 million workers age 16 and older in the United States were paid at hourly rates, representing 58.7 percent of all wage and salary workers. Among those paid by the hour, 701,000 workers earned exactly the prevailing federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour.

 

[ShamrockPride]

My wife hates the grocery store.  I don't mind it at all.  I hate doing laundry (specifically folding the laundry).  We made a deal before we got married that she would do laundry and I would do the grocery shopping.  I easily won out on that deal.  

Smart man.

ETA: I too find the grocery store relaxing. As long as you don't go on weekends or right after everyone gets out of work weeknights, it's pretty laid back.

 

[Jobber]

Pretty much. If people can't work more efficiently or become more cost-effective workers, then we'll just pay them to stay out of the way. And they won't receive any more money if they have kids.

I think many in here are discounting the upcoming swell of automation and the displacement that’s going to hit the middle and lower classes very hard.

 

[NutterButter]

 I kept hearing Subway commercials during football and they claimed to have Black Forest ham which I figured was bull####. Did some Googles and apparently here in 'murica you can claim stuff that isn't true where in Europe you can't. So Black Forest ham is a specially cured ham, similar to prosciutto, from that region in Germany.  I had never had it so ordered some online.  So my sandwich was BF ham, angus roast beef, Genoa salami and gravy on garlic cheese bread. It was pretty great. 

I'm going to subway tomorrow to get that.   Sounds delicious.

 

[dutch]

I can see this for someone who hates the grocery store - and you're the first I have heard about always getting something messed up.  I suspected that - especially since I now run into these people all over Kroger.  I asked one kid where the artichoke hearts were ...got a blank stare and then he said, "What's an artichoke heart?" 

I would also miss out on any comparison shopping.  I am weird in that I have always enjoyed grocery shopping and meal 

 

[dutch]

 I kept hearing Subway commercials during football and they claimed to have Black Forest ham which I figured was bull####. Did some Googles and apparently here in 'murica you can claim stuff that isn't true where in Europe you can't. So Black Forest ham is a specially cured ham, similar to prosciutto, from that region in Germany.  I had never had it so ordered some online.  So my sandwich was BF ham, angus roast beef, Genoa salami and gravy on garlic cheese bread. It was pretty great. 

Welp, I have dinner for tomorrow now.  Thanks

 

[Christo]

My wife hates the grocery store.  I don't mind it at all.  I hate doing laundry (specifically folding the laundry).  We made a deal before we got married that she would do laundry and I would do the grocery shopping.  I easily won out on that deal.  

Smart man.

ETA: I too find the grocery store relaxing. As long as you don't go on weekends or right after everyone gets out of work weeknights, it's pretty laid back.

Grocery shopping is the only shopping I like.

 

[CletiusMaximus]

Ryan Petersen @typesfast

I’m in Seattle and there is currently a line to shop at the grocery store whose entire premise is that you won’t have to wait in line.

 

[Chaka]

I didn't realize how difficult the grocery store could be for some people. 

And I have no idea how anyone could live at anything above a subsistence level on $7.25/hr. I am not sure even subsistence would be possible.  There is no room for pursuing the "American Dream" at that rate.

 

[Buttonhook]

I didn't realize how difficult the grocery store could be for some people. 

And I have no idea how anyone could live at anything above a subsistence level on $7.25/hr. I am not sure even subsistence would be possible.  There is no room for pursuing the "American Dream" at that rate.

Don't work at a grocery store if you want to pursue the American Dream, instead bury yourself in a $200k loan and go to college.

 

[Buttonhook]

I hope this takes off as supermarkets are the most annoying places on earth, but they also need to do the following:

- Get rid of those carts with the little cars in front for kids to sit in.  There's already very little room in the store for everyone and their carts.  These things are annoying as hell.

- On that note, kids should not be allowed in supermarkets at all.  I hate it when you see a mom bring her 5 kids with her to the market.  They just get in the way.  Leave them in the car with the dog.  One person per household is all that should be allowed in.  

- Make shopping carts require that you put your car keys inside a locked compartment, and the compartment will only open back up if the shopping cart is within the shopping cart return area.  No more shopping carts left in parking spaces.  

Also, no talking allowed.  We live in a small town, so my wife ALWAYS runs into people she knows.  Takes 20 minutes for her to buy some eggs and milk.  

 

[Chaka]

Don't work at a grocery store if you want to pursue the American Dream, instead bury yourself in a $200k loan and go to college.

Yeah, it's weird how the ideal used to be to work low paying jobs with the motivation of putting yourself, or your children through college.

Now it seems to force people into making impossible choices.

 

[Warhogs]

Well, our country's infrastructure is old and falling apart. I think it's possible that the government pays these displaced workers but puts them to work putting in new roads, bridges and water and sewer lines. Nah, that would be too ideal.

 

[mr. furley]

Don't work at a grocery store if you want to pursue the American Dream

errr

 

[mr. furley]

Well, our country's infrastructure is old and falling apart. I think it's possible that the government pays these displaced workers but puts them to work putting in new roads, bridges and water and sewer lines. Nah, that would be too ideal.

there was an opinion article in my local paper last week about re-creating the CCC to put more young people to work rebuilding the country's infrastructure. but... that'll never happen.  too socialist.