Walmart trying no checkout lanes

[ALF]

Walmart is taking a direct shot at Amazon and making checkout lanes obsolete

Walmart is rolling out a new technology in its stores that enables shoppers to scan and pay for their items without checkout lanes, registers, or cashiers.

Here's how it works: shoppers download Walmart's "Scan & Go" app, then scan the barcodes of the items they wish to purchase.

Once they are finished shopping, they click a button to pay for their goods and show their digital receipt to a store greeter on their way out the door.

https://www.aol.com/article/finance/2017/08/07/walmart-is-taking-a-direct-shot-at-amazon-and-making-checkout-la/23069214/

what could possibly go wrong

Edited August 8, 2017 by ALF

[unbillievable]

So Walmart is having a %100 off sale to kick off the event?

[Maury Ballstein]

All the hot moms in yoga pants will still be at target though.

[boyst]

All the hot moms in yoga pants will still be at target though.

yep

[frostbitmic]

For every cashier they no longer employ they now have to pay a security guard ... brilliant.

[\GoBillsInDallas/]

All the hot moms in yoga pants will still be at target though.

 

[RaoulDuke79]

I wish they had the technology to keep bath towels our of the kitchen goods aisle and ferreal children on bikes from running amuck.

[Buftex]

I hope one day, Walmart rolls out their plan for a store without customers.

[Marv's Neighbor]

Gee, I'll miss those crapy plastic bags you get at checkout.

[mead107]

Hate self checkouts. Cost jobs and I do not get a discount for doing it myself

[boyst]

All the hot moms in yoga pants will still be at target though.

I was excited to get back to Ohio and all the moms in yoga pants. Jesus. Not at all. Ohio got gross.

 

And several McDonald's I've stopped at. 2 to piss. One to eat all had automatic ordering. And kiosks at cedar point too

[KermitMcDermott]

They may eliminate checkout lines but then there's going to be a line for door greeters to check receipts.

Edited August 12, 2017 by KermitMcDermott

[Fan in San Diego]

Hate self checkouts. Cost jobs and I do not get a discount for doing it myself

But you usually get out of the store faster.

[KermitMcDermott]

But you usually get out of the store faster.

 

Yup, self checkout machines don't hold up the line by asking customers how their kids are doing.

[Buffalo Barbarian]

All the hot moms in yoga pants will still be at target though.

Why are they there?

[RaoulDuke79]

Why are they there?

So they don't have to be at Wal-Mart.

[PromoTheRobot]

Weren't they working on RFID tags on everything? That way you can just push your cart through a scanner and, boom, you're done.

[ExiledInIllinois]

Slow march to automation. Gotta trim labor in the service sector, etc... Forward thinking... Boomers are going to be kicking in the next 10,20 years in droves. We can't do business the way we did in the past... Automation to handle the population bounces. Unless, you want to bring in immigrants. How well is the labor shortage working for say Germany & Western Europe?

 

@ least we are forward planning. Take the good w/the bad, embrace the new economy and change w/it... OR else you can change against your will. We aren't going back in time for 20 years then be caught off guard with a labor shortage in a crunch.

Edited August 13, 2017 by ExiledInIllinois

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Weren't they working on RFID tags on everything?

Including the shopper?