• ShepherdPie@midwest.social
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    4 hours ago

    Do you really think Amazon wants to pay humans to be cashiers?

    No but if they spend a bunch of money and time designing it, spend a bunch of time and money retrofitting stores, and then a bunch of time and money marketing it and the technology doesn’t actually work when it’s ‘showtime,’ I can easily see a company with deep pockets like Amazon faking it all by hiring dirt cheap labor to make it seem like it works rather than the alternative.

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      15 minutes ago

      But the technology does actually work.

      You don’t come up with an idea, announce it to the world, and then start figuring out how to implement it.