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Orrex

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11. Wait a minute! When I've criticized Target in the past...

Reply to Ichingcarpenter (Original post)

Thu Sep 24, 2015, 07:16 AM

Sep 2015

I've been told that they're not so bad, and that they're much better than Walmart.

Surely it can't be true that Target is just as aggressively anti-union as its bigger counterpart?!?

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Day After Employees Vote to Unionize, Target Announces Fleet of Robot Workers [View all] Ichingcarpenter Sep 2015 OP

Robots? 1. Magnet 2. Sign that says "I destroy jobs" NBachers Sep 2015 #1

Maybe they can create Robot Consumers coyote Sep 2015 #2

I don't consume robots. Not anymore. Thanks, though. SusanaMontana41 Sep 2015 #3

They're a good source of iron, ... JustABozoOnThisBus Sep 2015 #10

LOL! SusanaMontana41 Sep 2015 #16

Rent A Robot Security Guard for $6.25 an Hour Ichingcarpenter Sep 2015 #4

Thanks for Posting! Sherman A1 Sep 2015 #5

If they do that, I'll never step in a LuvNewcastle Sep 2015 #6

Don't shop there. Vinca Sep 2015 #7

A portent nationalize the fed Sep 2015 #8

Customer Service GSTL interaction: Alkene Sep 2015 #9

Wait a minute! When I've criticized Target in the past... Orrex Sep 2015 #11

Automation isn't going away Recursion Sep 2015 #12

Keynesian spending to employ displaced workers Taitertots Sep 2015 #18

Why "employ"? why not just give people money? (nt) Recursion Sep 2015 #20

High wage would speed up the process, not change the inevitable. One_Life_To_Give Sep 2015 #13

So what will they do when the robots find out they are working for free? Rex Sep 2015 #14

News for Target corp workinclasszero Sep 2015 #15

If Automation isn't going away, Capitalism sure will. HughBeaumont Sep 2015 #17

You've connected the dots as to where ''all this'' is leading. Octafish Sep 2015 #19