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In reply to the discussion: No cashiers, please: Futuristic supermarket opens in Mideast [View all]NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)It's not "profiteering" ... it's providing better service at a better price. I appreciate when my local store makes an effort to keep their prices lower, or when they're able to use their profits to grow and offer more items and better service as a result.
It's just a matter of embracing the future (and, frankly... REALITY) and being appreciative of all that the advancements that the modern world has to offer. This genie is out of the bottle and all the griping in the world isn't going to change the new direction of retail.
I'm looking forward to the day when every item in a cart can be recognized with its own RFID tag. Individual barcode scanning won't be required. Just push the cart through a walk-through scanner, and everything is counted and totaled-up.
Typewriter ribbon factories are struggling. Let's all go back to manual typewriters.
Remember when boxboys would use their spring-loaded pricing-inker to stamp the price on top of every can? Then along comes barcodes and their jobs are obsolete. One person can stock the shelves (without pricing items individually) much faster than five box-boys who needed to stamp prices before putting them on the shelf. OH NO!!
Are there people seriously advocating that we get rid of bar-codes so that more box-boys can keep their jobs? (That's "profiteering" too, right?)