Income Inequality

[Penner]

[jbird4049]

eaten by low income folks

I've been avoiding this cancerous thread but this meme needs to die here and now. Burgers are enjoyed by the entire cross section of America. They are one of the things that make America great. Don't ever disparage our food like that again you degenerate vegan.

Cancerous thread? What, you don't like my piercing insights? I'll have you know, you ignoramus, that even now I am going to In-and-Out Burger to dine. I will have you know it is far superior to a Wendy's, or worse, McDonalds.

[jbird4049]

[Ex-California]

Wendy's rolling out self-ordering kiosks. The fight for $15 just turned into the fight to find a new job. This did not come as a surprise.

http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-wendy ... ons-2017-2

False equivalency. This was happening long before there was any talk of $15/hour minimum wage. I think Carl's Jr had self-order kiosks in like 2008.

Anyway, they'll quickly find that its more efficient to replace the machines with workers. All of the grocery stores, especially the Union ones with $15+/hr clerks, are replacing all the self-checkout lanes with express lanes. Bringing more jobs and less computers

But feel free to believe whatever suits your narrative

[Ex-California]

eaten by low income folks

I've been avoiding this cancerous thread but this meme needs to die here and now. Burgers are enjoyed by the entire cross section of America. They are one of the things that make America great. Don't ever disparage our food like that again you degenerate vegan.

Cancerous thread? What, you don't like my piercing insights? I'll have you know, you ignoramus, that even now I am going to In-and-Out Burger to dine. I will have you know it is far superior to a Wendy's, or worse, McDonalds.

And somehow they pay their workers wages that start at like $12 without resorting to whining about minimum wage and kiosks. People who move up the chain make good money.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Wendy's rolling out self-ordering kiosks. The fight for $15 just turned into the fight to find a new job. This did not come as a surprise.

http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-wendy ... ons-2017-2

False equivalency. This was happening long before there was any talk of $15/hour minimum wage. I think Carl's Jr had self-order kiosks in like 2008.

Anyway, they'll quickly find that its more efficient to replace the machines with workers. All of the grocery stores, especially the Union ones with $15+/hr clerks, are replacing all the self-checkout lanes with express lanes. Bringing more jobs and less computers

But feel free to believe whatever suits your narrative

True story. The local Home Depot and grocery store went down to a single manned checkout lane and a bunch of kiosks, and people still wait in line for the cashier.

Consumer choice overrides automation.

[PartyOf5]

Wendy's rolling out self-ordering kiosks. The fight for $15 just turned into the fight to find a new job. This did not come as a surprise.

http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-wendy ... ons-2017-2

False equivalency. This was happening long before there was any talk of $15/hour minimum wage. I think Carl's Jr had self-order kiosks in like 2008.

Anyway, they'll quickly find that its more efficient to replace the machines with workers. All of the grocery stores, especially the Union ones with $15+/hr clerks, are replacing all the self-checkout lanes with express lanes. Bringing more jobs and less computers

But feel free to believe whatever suits your narrative

True story. The local Home Depot and grocery store went down to a single manned checkout lane and a bunch of kiosks, and people still wait in line for the cashier.

Consumer choice overrides automation.

Using the kiosk is a consumer choice.

Maybe the reason there is a line is because cashier is slower than the kiosks. A certain percentage of people will wait for the cashier because they are afraid of the kiosks. Sorry guys, but I don't see any reversal to more cashiers and less self checkouts. I see the opposite.

[SuburbanFarmer]

False equivalency. This was happening long before there was any talk of $15/hour minimum wage. I think Carl's Jr had self-order kiosks in like 2008.

Anyway, they'll quickly find that its more efficient to replace the machines with workers. All of the grocery stores, especially the Union ones with $15+/hr clerks, are replacing all the self-checkout lanes with express lanes. Bringing more jobs and less computers

But feel free to believe whatever suits your narrative

True story. The local Home Depot and grocery store went down to a single manned checkout lane and a bunch of kiosks, and people still wait in line for the cashier.

Consumer choice overrides automation.

Using the kiosk is a consumer choice.

Maybe the reason there is a line is because cashier is slower than the kiosks. A certain percentage of people will wait for the cashier because they are afraid of the kiosks. Sorry guys, but I don't see any reversal to more cashiers and less self checkouts. I see the opposite.

So do the executives of your favorite retail megacorp. But they're wrong.

In discussions with friends, both young and old, all prefer the normal checkout line to the hassle of getting things to scan correctly, the idiotic 'weight-check' of your bags that never works right, and having to bag it up yourself. And God help you, if you're paying with cash.

People are choosing the cashier, and it's not changing. Those kiosks are empty, or nearly so, every single time.

[Okeefenokee]

True story. The local Home Depot and grocery store went down to a single manned checkout lane and a bunch of kiosks, and people still wait in line for the cashier.

Consumer choice overrides automation.

Using the kiosk is a consumer choice.

Maybe the reason there is a line is because cashier is slower than the kiosks. A certain percentage of people will wait for the cashier because they are afraid of the kiosks. Sorry guys, but I don't see any reversal to more cashiers and less self checkouts. I see the opposite.

So do the executives of your favorite retail megacorp. But they're wrong.

In discussions with friends, both young and old, all prefer the normal checkout line to the hassle of getting things to scan correctly, the idiotic 'weight-check' of your bags that never works right, and having to bag it up yourself.

People are choosing the cashier, and it's not changing.

Until there's a bin you put your stuff in, and it comes out the other side bagged, and tallied. Don't delude yourself.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Using the kiosk is a consumer choice.

Maybe the reason there is a line is because cashier is slower than the kiosks. A certain percentage of people will wait for the cashier because they are afraid of the kiosks. Sorry guys, but I don't see any reversal to more cashiers and less self checkouts. I see the opposite.

So do the executives of your favorite retail megacorp. But they're wrong.

In discussions with friends, both young and old, all prefer the normal checkout line to the hassle of getting things to scan correctly, the idiotic 'weight-check' of your bags that never works right, and having to bag it up yourself.

People are choosing the cashier, and it's not changing.

Until there's a bin you put your stuff in, and it comes out the other side bagged, and tallied. Don't delude yourself.

Quite so. Amazon has some interesting ideas about it, but far from mainstream yet.