Walmart Is Eliminating Greeters. Workers With Disabilities Feel Targeted - Sensationalist Headlines

We still write checks to pay for everyday purchases here... Don't underestimate our capability to not adopt efficiency. Hell, half our stores have chip readers installed for credit cards but they have them turned off because they don't want to be bothered with it.

Who's this "we" business Actually it's because the companies that produce and manage the credit card readers lock the chips behind extremely expensive software upgrades

Small town bullshit most likely, but I could walk into a number of stores back home and see some old lady cut a check for her cat food. Granted, it's a lot less common now that everyone has pretty much said "no personal checks", but I still don't think I should even see one at all anymore. (Business purchase exception) Yeah but I mean, the UPS Store and a few convenience stores had/have cards saying chip reader disabled for years. These aren't just mom and pop shops, companies should be jumping on that. It doesn't help though that almost every store has a long wait time before it approves your card. Walgreens or CVS here is the only one I've been to where it's nearly instant.

Checks are fucking stupidly insecure and we should not use them, I'll agree with that. Interestingly -- you may or may not know this -- the UPS Store is actually completely unaffiliated with UPS AFAIK. So you may be thinking they're a larger, more financially capable company than they really are. That said, as far as I'm aware there's a cost per-reader to enable chip cards, so they may have just so many that it has to be a gradual process for them. THAT said, as someone who processes credit cards online, chip cards are an absolute godsend. It might seem unrelated (websites can't interface with the chip), but the chips are actually fundamental for stopping fraud moving forward, given that they completely negate card skimmers -- which means people will have a harder time getting card details to use fraudulently on sites like mine. IIRC if you charge a card using the chip you're cleared of all fraud liability as a merchant, so the urgency of chip card installations will vary depending on the business type. For example, stores that sell Visa gift cards -- a massive target for fraud -- have a much greater impetus to invest in chip card readers than a store or business that is very difficult to defraud or just isn't defrauded commonly, such as a fast food place. The more fraud costs a business, the more they'll spend to stop it; the opposite is true as well.

Yeah, this is actually important, because theft is absolutely rampant in Wal-Mart. Their anti-thievery operation is also more advanced than this, because they also have paid employees in plain clothes whose sole job is to monitor and catch potential shoplifters.

not gonna lie i seen this guy who looked like he stole steven hawkings chair and was literally just sitting there at the front doors staring into the abyss, i think its because walmart would rather buy a cheap robot to be a greeter than have money sucked out of their profits

This was actually one of the reasons walmart failed in Germany (among many others where they thought German mentality is the same as American and thought you can treat workers in Germany like those in the USA). I know it's different in America, but here it was just creepy as hell, especially if the employee had to smile the whole time. Sucks if they lose their jobs, but the position in general seems like nonsense to me.

Walmart's gross revenue is above every other company in the world, almost twice as much as the 2nd place company, a Chinese state owned oil company.

yeah but that's because merchants are fucking stupid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndFzfQPsjoY