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In reply to the discussion: Amazon on Monday unveiled the latest plan to automate American workers out of existence [View all]LisaM
(28,310 posts)46. Wow, these responses.
So much for keeping in touch with the working class. This idea sounds awful. And Amazon Fresh is annoying, too. At the apartment where I live, a lot of people use this and their delivery truck just plunks down in the left turn lane out front with its blinkers on for 10 or 15 minutes. And they only seem to have one person per truck when it would be faster and easier with two.
I don't really mind waiting in line for a few minutes but I have noticed that grocery store employees are less well trained than they used to be back when they had unions in most of them.
People give lip service to the concept of good jobs but don't seem to want to exert themselves on any level to support them.
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Amazon on Monday unveiled the latest plan to automate American workers out of existence [View all]
Kilgore
Dec 2016
OP
While I am sure people will do this, a lot of people won't. There are enough people who
still_one
Dec 2016
#1
Unless I don't understand it, looking at a live cam virtually is not the same thing as
still_one
Dec 2016
#5
No, I went to the NYPost link in the OP which described it as a virtual experience. Obviously, I
still_one
Dec 2016
#21
The bright side is that there will be a bunch of higher skilled workers necessary to
Hoyt
Dec 2016
#4
People will flock to it. You'll be surrounded by people who look just like the ones in the video.
NBachers
Dec 2016
#6
Thank you. I hate shopping. I hate having to identify all of my vegetable selections
Maru Kitteh
Dec 2016
#20
It's available in every Apple Store for off the shelf items (software, keyboards, sound systems, etc
brooklynite
Dec 2016
#66
I DEMAND THE RIGHT TO WAIT IN LINE FOR AN HOUR BEHIND ELDERLY COUPON ARGUMENT LADY!
Warren DeMontague
Dec 2016
#10
I think not wanting wait in interminably long lines cuts across all demographic categories
Warren DeMontague
Dec 2016
#61
I can't wait . Service were I live is terrible and often quite discriminatory . If I can leave them
lunasun
Dec 2016
#38
And this "innovation" is not going to happen in east middle-of-nowhere Wisconsin
alarimer
Dec 2016
#44
They can't even answer the glaring problem of how a debt-strapped millennial buys things.
HughBeaumont
Dec 2016
#47
But how will the robot know the piece of salmon you're returning is really rotten?
Vinca
Dec 2016
#30
The don't require it; but they recognize the brick and mortar is still a "thing"
brooklynite
Dec 2016
#40