Self checkouts in Aldi


Lots of people protested during the Industrial Revolution. Their fear was that machines were replacing humans.
Wonder how that ended?
It ended with more affordable and standardised products and services, where the everyday folk live a more luxurious life than JD Rockefeller.
I’ll self scan in the name of progress thanks.
 
Sitting down is the new standing up

Always the guardian with this nonsense isn't it.
Its just another example of technology changing things, just like smart phone apps meaning fewer call centres are needed etc.. But there are still plenty of jobs out there, just in other areas.
Which areas?
Lots of people protested during the Industrial Revolution. Their fear was that machines were replacing humans.
Wonder how that ended?
That was at a time when they actually needed human beings to fight wars.eg the human being was a valued asset and not a useless eater.
 
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No.
A lass who chooses to work on a checkout in a supermarket does so because that is what she chooses to do.

Only women work on checkouts?

Not a career progression.
It's simply a job, which briins the money into the household.

I don't think anyone goes to school dreaming of being a checkout operator all of their working life. It's not what they choose to do. It's what job is available to them. If there were fewer checkout jobs then they'd do something else.
 
Do their machines throw your food at you as soon as you’ve scanned it?
I f***ing hate aldi 😂
People who refuse to use self service checkouts only refuse because they don't know how to use them.

Fact.
That’s not a fact. I am capable of using self checkouts, but I refuse to self checkout.

The reason?

Because I don’t work in said supermarket.

Just because you write ‘fact’ after a statement, doesn’t magically turn your statement into a fact.

Fact.
The self scan your stuff as you walk round is an absolute godsend in Asda. Bish, bash, bosh, round and out the shop in as minimal time as possible
That sounds canny actually
Or staff can be used more usefully doing other things such as keeping shelves stocked and helping people out rather than being stuck behind a checkout.
Not in the supermarkets I frequent.
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.
Well that’s a fair argument.
 
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