Walmart Launches Small Army Of Autonomous Scanning Robots - Sensationalist Headlines

My family was just rich enough to not be considered for financial aid but poor enough that we desperately needed two paychecks and both my parents worked overtime. And that is a fairly common story among lower middle class college students; the US Student Loan System is notoriously shitty in that it provides plenty for poor students(as it should) but it doesn't actually take into complete account expenditures and cost burdens.

I've heard about these. These are basically halving the job of what CAP team does. CAP team brings in items, scans them and stocks the shelves, so with these, I suppose the entire existence of all the CAP members will simply be reduced to stocking shelves. Makes me wonder how this will effect department managers work loads too, like my mom.

Looks like a bit of a gimmick to me, the thing takes up a lot of space in-between isles so there's no way you could use it during busy times. Would be a lot less intrusive and probably more effective/cheaper to have a rail that sits on top of the isles above customers looking across at the opposite shelves.

I'm honestly not surprised things are going this way. While I'm off from college for two semesters for academic reasons, I've started working at a major competitor to Walmart in the groceries industry. They and Walmart both now have online ordering services that are partially automated, where automated ordering systems allow people to order their shopping list online, and then pick up the pre-packaged goods at the store. It's highly efficient and convenient for the customer, and me and my co-workers are working 24/7 while on-the-clock to fulfill orders. However, I'm almost certain the reason that my employer's ordering service isn't going more automated is due to there being a national union that Corporate works with for the employees. I personally think automation is inevitable, but that in order to negate adverse effects from its spread we need to have education reform and better social systems in place to keep people from slipping into poverty and allowing displaced labor to retrain and move up in the economy to higher-skilled jobs, or even to starting their own businesses. While at the moment that might be a slightly unrealistic view in this country (good 'ol U S of A), I don't think it's impossible- younger people like myself know the score, we're motivated, and many of us are pissed and want to change things. Hell, look at the kids from Stoneman Douglas as a perfect example. Sure, their activism is in relation to gun control and corruption, but it's still a perfect example of why things need to change and will be changing.

Not even Walmart would take me how fucked am i

Honestly, just let it all collapse. I've been in the bowels of retail long enough that I've become a broken person. I've reached the point that I believe almost every human is evil. Pure, irredeemable evil. The only reason I haven't ended my life is a combo of my therapist and a friend that has offered a way out of this hell by providing for me so that I can actually be happy for once. I just gotta survive until I can move.

You're not going to be scanning IRP's when the store is active (most of the time).

In countries where the populace matters UBI will be the obvious solution, and this will kickstart things in that direction. In America that solution is "fuck you, got mine", which has been in place since they started arguing about exactly who the Bill of Rights apply to, circa about the time John Adams was president.

Instead of going to college to get a degree in liberal arts, use your college loan to learn a trade. Use your loan to go learn welding, or fabricating, or go to mechanic school. This is also where "government" comes in. It's the responsibility of a government to make sure its people are a good work force. Sending them to college and trade schools is part of that. Placing the burden of the world on the backs of corporations is just dumb. Don't expect Walmart to wait up for you because you have no skills or experience.

My government and college already maxed out my loan. And because I never graduated because I couldn't afford to work both an internship and a job, I'm not going to be able to graduate. Also, you and IlIkeCorn have repeatidly misread what I fucking said, over and over again. I even say that our government has fucked up. Use your eyes for a god damn change instead of reading the first line.

No my point is that they're already running these things super cheap. They're running it so cheap they're abusing both the populace and govnerment. I'm saying your dried up point of, 'they're supposed to generate wealth' is such a vague simple policy that we have actually followed that we are now stuck with a broken infrastructure, government, education system and more because companies don't want to pay taxes, fair wages, provide the support that they then also rely on to make up for the things they dodge. I don't think Automation is the wrong answer, but I know for a fact we're going into it with terrible policies and the wrong reasons and that vague ass statement is where it all started right next to that STUPID Supreme Court decision that played loose with the constitution and is actually based on the plaintiffs lying that makes corporations people.

You're being super aggressive and emotional to people that have nothing to do with your issues, you know? Nobody forced you to take out $50,000 in loans, nor did they force you to fail to graduate. You didn't have to go to college, you have an internet connection, you can learn a skill and build a portfolio yourself, plenty of people do it. I get that its tough out there and there are a lot of unfair circumstances that make things easier or more difficult for certain people, but you also have to take a bit of responsibility for yourself instead of hyperventilating on the internet and yelling about how Walmart owes you a job stocking shelves. They don't. If your job is so basic and mundane that it can be done by an iPad with wheels, you should probably spend less time on forums and more time learning something useful.

We haven't missed your points at all so far. They've been pretty baseless, irrational, and emotional. You're damning corporations for no reason other than your inability to graduate schooling. It's not Walmart's fault that they would rather innovate than hire college drop outs. As Corn said, thats not unethical or illegal. You're running under the assumption that all of America's problems stem from corporate greed, and that automation is also corporate greed. Last I checked, corprorations didn't lobby to have roads and bridges fall into disrepair, or lobby for education cuts. You're being incredibly emotional over this for no real reason. You're blaming a dozen issues on Corporate America when they're only responsible for one of them.