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In reply to the discussion: Tried the Amazon Go grocery store in Seattle today [View all]Demsrule86
(68,552 posts)70. very few jobs...greedy corporations won't feed them.
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Humans have done the work for not only hundreds but thousands of years.
democratisphere
Feb 2018
#50
Kind of evil brilliant. Psychologically it's easier to charge items on a charge card
AJT
Feb 2018
#3
No idea, not what I was thinking of, just the quantity of tech utilized.
appalachiablue
Feb 2018
#29
And when there's an utterably inexplicable error on your bill -- how do you fix it ?
eppur_se_muova
Feb 2018
#11
So if you swipe something, you can swipe ON it to prove you DIDN'T swipe it!
Buns_of_Fire
Feb 2018
#19
I'm going to give it a try at one of the local supermarkets here and see how it works out.
Snake Plissken
Feb 2018
#14
A neighbor friend of relatives, middle aged woman who works for the Navy
appalachiablue
Feb 2018
#80
entertainment in reducing and trivializing the concerns of others to "luddite thinking."
LanternWaste
Feb 2018
#24
Concern about the effects of automation on labor has nothing to do with Luddite thinking.
kcr
Feb 2018
#42
What's that I can 't hear you over the greedy demands of giant rich corporations who want to cut
Demsrule86
Feb 2018
#79
At first, I didn't like self-service gas stations, self-service check outs, PayPal, etc.
Hoyt
Feb 2018
#28
I don't think I'd enjoy it. Even the products look high tech (and overly packaged).
LisaM
Feb 2018
#51
I am likewise a bit suspicious that everything will be charged correctly.
PoindexterOglethorpe
Feb 2018
#54