Oijkuij

@Oijkuij@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To further add some numbers (and their source to this, the average grocery cashier makes $15-16 an hour, or liberally $35k a year. Note that this isn’t the entire cost of a cashier, the checkout equipment and POS systems cost money too - let’s assume that and the automatic checkout system are in the same order of magnitude. There were about 800k grocery store cashiers in the US in 2017 (source) so that’s about $28 billion, or ~3% of that proposed $1T revenue.

  Many factors not included in this calc, more importantly regional variations in costs. Food prices and wages are higher than average in NY, 10% might not be pretty well calculated for that state. Also, human employees must be insured/have benefits, and machines do not require this. That cost savings on stores isn’t in the calculus here.

  Also a huge fan of holding food chains accountable for fair pricing. Hope this becomes effective!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Optimisation is a Slow Process⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You know what the alternatives are, right? either we have two mouths, or we speak with our nostrils and the silent, gaping hole below only unhinges for the consumption of organic matter.