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BEHIND THE CURTAIN: Amazon’s “AI grocery store” is actually run by 1,000 Indian employees watching customers through video feeds

16 days ago - cashiers were moved off-site, and they watched people as they shopped. (Related: Amazon to begin testing Digit – a six-foot-tall humanoid robot that might end up REPLACING human warehouse workers.)Amazon now focusing on Dash Carts after dropping Just Walk Out

A report released on April 3 revealed that Amazon Web Services is cutting several hundred jobs in its Physical Stores Technology team. The layoffs will allegedly impact part of the company's identity and checkout ...

Soft-on-crime policies, failure to stop retail theft trigger closures of major retailers in blue cities

February 15, 2024 - cashiers in favor of self-checkout kiosks as part of money-saving measures during the pandemic-era labor shortages.

According to a DealAid.org study, businesses that replaced staff with self-checkout terminals reported increases of up to 50 percent in retail thefts in 2023. As a result, 37.1 percent of retailers increased the sizes of their loss prevention and asset protection teams and placed additional security and employees near self-checkout terminals to reduce ...

McDonald’s announces kiosks will replace cashiers in 2,500 restaurants

June 28, 2017 - cashiers obsolete

Recent reports have alleged that the fast food company's plans to roll out the touch-screen, self-service technology is set to displace cashiers in 2,500 stores across the country. However, the fast food giant strongly dismissed this, stating that it has no plans of replacing its cashiers. According to the company, the installation of kiosks will not result in large-scale layoffs, but will instead move some cashiers to other parts ...

New automated restaurant with no servers or cashiers opens in NYC

December 20, 2016 -

Eatsa is a modern, high-tech version of the automated lunch counter – an innovation first introduced to New Yorkers over a century ago. The restaurant employs no waiters or cashiers; customers order and pay for their food at an iPad kiosk. Moments later, a meal appears in an individual cubbyhole with an LED display of the appropriate customer’s name on its clear glass screen.

The meals are all vegetarian and quinoa-based. Customers can select a 12- or 16-ounce ...

SORRY, HUMANS: Amazon will most likely replace Whole Foods cashiers with automated systems

July 26, 2017 - cashiers. However, speculations continue to plague the deal as mounting reports have previously shown that automation is set to take over half of all American jobs in the near future.

ZipRecruiter CEO Ian Siegel quipped that the deal between Amazon and Whole Foods will speed up the process of replacing human employees with technology should it push through. According to Siegel, the supermarket industry already uses self-checkout stations and that Amazon has demonstrated ...

Rising minimum wage translates to fewer low-level jobs and more robots in the fast food industry

January 23, 2018 -

Over the past few years, a number of states in the U.S. have moved to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. While this has many economic and social implications, the biggest ones of all may pertain to exactly how fast food companies operate. To at least one high-ranking industry exec, the move to get rid of human cashiers in favor of robots to handle orders could be their best one in years.

According to Leonard Comma, CEO of fast food restaurant Jack in the ...

Alarming study finds 90% of store receipts contain toxic chemicals that promote diseases such as autism, cancer, diabetes and obesity

February 04, 2018 - cashiers and waitstaff, are vulnerable to the chemicals' effects. BPA reacts with estrogen and thyroid hormone receptors. It is often associated with "infertility, autism, ADHD, obesity, type-2 diabetes, premature births, and early onset of puberty."

Earlier studies on the toxic chemicals have determined that both cashiers and waiting staff will handle around 30 receipts hourly. Once their shift is done, these workers "workers have significantly higher ...

Meet Tally, the grocery store shelf auditing robot that’s going to put thousands of low-wage grocery workers out of a job

August 01, 2017 - cashiers will be completely non-existent. (Related: SORRY, HUMANS: Amazon will most likely replace Whole Foods cashiers with automated systems.)

The expansion is not limited to physical stores. Global companies are transitioning large parts of their operations to the online environment. Mobile ordering and payment schemes offer more convenience for customers while being less costly for the company. This translates to improved operations, with less need for ...

7 million retail jobs will be lost in the coming years warns alarming report

May 29, 2017 -

However, the advent of automation technology could lead to roughly six to 7.5 million retail workers losing their jobs in the coming years. This puts them at risk of becoming stranded workers, the researchers said. According to the report, retail cashiers were projected to suffer the most number of job losses. Nearly a quarter of retail cashiers are women, the researchers noted. The report also stressed that the job losses will significantly impact the working ...

Robots could take over 3.4 million human jobs thanks to Amazon Go’s new grocery stores

December 14, 2016 - cashiers, the UK’s Daily Mail reported.

Called “Amazon Go,” customers go into the store using an accompanying app, get whatever items they want and then walk out of the store without ever stopping at a cash register. This is made possible by utilizing technology that is found in self-driving cars.App will automatically charge customers

The app features a host of sensors that detect what is taken off of shelves by consumers and then those items are automatically ...

Jeff Bezos wants to eliminate all humans, including his own workers at Whole Foods

August 27, 2020 -

The Jeff Bezos plan is to replace all human resources with robots as part of a massive technological overhaul of the standard shopping format. Instead of actual human cashiers, for instance, shoppers at Whole Foods will instead pay for their items simply by exiting the store.

Amazon executive Jeff Wilke, who is on the verge of retiring, has two remaining tasks at hand before heading off to Easy Street. One is to unveil Amazon's "Go" convenience stores, which ...

First fully automated McDonald’s outlet creeps out customers

January 03, 2023 - cashiers in 2,500 restaurants.

Fast food industry rapidly moving to replace employees with robots and eliminate payroll, health benefits and human unreliability.

The wage-earner robot apocalypse arrives: Wendy’s to install 1,000 fast food kiosks to replace humans.

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Wendy's to replace thousands of cashiers with automated kiosks... $15 wage demands lead to accelerating unemployment and social unrest

More U.S. kids suffer in poverty today than when Obama took office, dispelling myth of economic 'recovery'

Unemployment claims soar as U.S. industry collapses; MSM touts growth in lowest-paying jobs instead

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