Self checkouts in Aldi


Go back to switchboard operators for every time you wanted to make a call. Stop sending emails to keep typists and couriers in a job. Even get rid of tractors so farms had to employ hundreds of people to plant and pick crops.

Automation doesn't reduce employment. It just reduces the number which are required for low skill tedious work and frees them to do something more productive and interesting with their lives.
Maybe they could train for jobs that we need filling by actual thinking humans instead of putting barcodes in front of a scanner which can be replaced by machinery.
 
Maybe they could train for jobs that we need filling by actual thinking humans instead of putting barcodes in front of a scanner which can be replaced by machinery.

Maybe they should be rid of barcodes to create more jobs. When I worked in Asda when I was 16, I had to price up every single item with a label gun. Every time a price changed everything had to be relabelled. It kept me busy for hours.
 
I find them a pain I'm the arse, as they never scan properly then if you get audited at the till is another pain. I don't think they're any faster but more stressful.


Sounds like lidl that.
Never used the scan as you shop handsets. Watching customers having their shopping checked by staff sort of defeats the object.
 
Totally agree. Personally never use the self scan thing. It's just a way of using less staff and saving money for the massive companies who make huge profits year on year.
At Tesco opposite the SOL at 8:15 this morning I took a full trolley to a checkout with 5 staff standing around it. I was told to go to the self trolley checkout as no tills were open due to a stocktake. I asked if they were joking, apparently not. After asking if any of the 5 were busy a guy opened a checkout. Increase in prices combined with a reduction in service.
 
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Next stop standing behind some arsehole frigging on with carefully colour coded shopping bags for which square inch of which shelf in the fridge the food goes on . Bad enough when someone is scanning it for them.
 
Never used the scan as you shop handsets. Watching customers having their shopping checked by staff sort of defeats the object.

I only use them occasionally in Sainsbury’s as you certain things are cheaper when purchased by thar method
And therefore more people out of work.

Or sell more stuff faster then need more jobs stacking shelves, warehouse & delivery drivers
 
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I only use them occasionally in Sainsbury’s as you certain things are cheaper when purchased by thar method
If you're pulled over and checked and you haven't nicked anything the customer should receive £10 off. I thought they had to have reasonable suspicions to go through somebody's belongings.
 
It's the same with all this automated stuff just had to ring the bank and why do they never understand your postcode. Everything is online and self serve now in every company. Saying that like it's always self serve in pallion herons as they get loads in filling there pockets and legging it.
 
If you’ve got a choice of waiting five minutes for the full trolley in front of you to be scanned, then the customer inexplicably finds themselves surprised at having to pay and so has to find their card, then bag…sure.

There are times I don’t mind waiting. There are also times I’m in a hurry and would prefer to use the self-checkout.

There are also shops where nobody mans the tills on an evening. Not unusual to go into Lidl to find only the self-checkout running.
I’ve never seen more than 3 staff in Aldi at once. Makes perfect sense to get rid of half the checkouts, as they’re never used.
 
Having SS machines that are designed to make customer life easier rather than prioritizing stopping the minority from nicking stuff would be a civilized development.
 
Pretty much like got to think where this leads, automation is going to effect so many jobs going forward.

I don’t think there’s a practical way of stopping or even slowing change as capitalism will see to it that costs are reduced as much as possible. With world populations growing and automation increasing you do wonder if there is a tipping point where there won’t be anywhere near enough jobs to go around. Self driving vehicles will be mental for the job market if they became the norm.
Thankfully fitting race spec ceramic brake discs etc to supercars will always require a human touch.
Having SS machines that are designed to make customer life easier rather than prioritizing stopping the minority from nicking stuff would be a civilized development.

In fairness like the non stealing majority end up paying for it as I doubt supermarkets permit it to hit the bottom line.
 
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Pretty much like got to think where this leads, automation is going to effect so many jobs going forward.
This is like the pandemic, people are absolutely incapable of understanding the the second and third affects of decisions.

AI doesn’t take jobs off people - it enables additional job creation.

Stage 1: Click and Collect or home delivery, checkout workers change role to packers.

Stage 2: Delivery drivers employed.

Stage 3: Website designed for e-commerce and had a staff maintaining it.

Stage 4: More manufacturing jobs dor
Refrigerator vehicles that weren’t needed previously.

Change in consumer habits means customers have better experience and additional jobs are created.
 
The “puts people out of work for profits” argument is a simple as fuck.

Supermarkets that employ more staff would very simply just put your prices up

And anyway, I thought we wanted Singapore on Thames as an economy not a manual one?
 
Good, keep all the dithering old farts in one line

Delaying all and sundry by sifting through their shrapnel, and trying to insert a 25 centime piece and some vouchers for something not in their trolley and which are out of date by a year anyway.
Never used the scan as you shop handsets. Watching customers having their shopping checked by staff sort of defeats the object.

Not sure how long the ones in our Sainsburys have been there. Three, four years? Am there every week or two, and I've been checked twice.
 
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