Ford takes a knee as does Apple-Moving jobs back

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Another wave of worker replacement is coming soon: http://www.recode.net/2016/12/5/13842892/amazon-go-grocery-store-no-lines-cashier-paying. You’re talking millions of cash register people will be replaced by software and hardware.

[spdrun]

Already discussed. BTW, I hate the idea for privacy reasons, but am not sure it’s actually economical. Self-checkouts have reached a certain penetration that doesn’t appear to be increasing.

Amazon’s system doesn’t appear to use RFID. I don’t see how maintaining a massive network of sensors would be any cheaper than a self-checkout register, or for that matter, a manned register.

This isn’t an e-toll road where we’re talking about cars passing in an orderly fashion though a fixed control point. I’m betting it also presupposes a way more orderly shopping experience than we get in NYC, especially during peak times.

You might have ten people right next to each other with mobile phones grabbing the same goods off the shelves, then replacing them and grabbing other goods.

[no_such_reality]

Presonally, I think the UPS, Fedex and USPS pevople are on the chopping block first.

Autonomous trucks with a robotic shelver (like in old tape libraries for computer backup), automatic sliding port doors on the roof and a set of recharging drone docking ports on the roof. The AI truck drives down the main road in the subdivision and the robo-shelver moves packages according to GPS coordinates to the loading platform. The drone (like a mini-cargo copter), picks it up, flys up and away over the houses to drop at the door of the designated house. The truck keeps rolling with multiple drones flying out over a radius of a couple miles (whatever works out economically).

The drones drop the package, notify via SMS Txt or email that the package is delivered and away it goes flying short cut over the houses back to the truck.

[FlyerInHi]

[quote=XBoxBoy][quote=spdrun]Hopefully that idea will go over like a lead balloon — can you see the negative aspects of having one’s eating habits tied to an online account with one’s real name? Bet the newly deregulated hellth in$urance piggies will just lurrrrrve this.
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As someone who eats healthy I’d gladly let my health carrier see my grocery receipts in exchange for no more waiting in checkout lines. And wouldn’t it be great if you didn’t have to put up with a total stranger, who is your cashier, trying to make a “personal connection” as their marketing dept has trained them to do?

And what about the positive aspects of having one’s eating habits tied to an online account? If my health insurance took into account my eating habits, my exercise habits, my weight and cholesterol, my sleeping habits and my general lifestyle I bet my health insurance would drop in half. But no, I gotta be lumped in with a pool of people who eat like crap, never exercise, and in general don’t take care of themselves.[/quote]

Xbox, that’s not a bad idea, but i can think all kinds of insurance scams by the obese. They buy enough veggies to feed a child using a trackable system, then they buy junk using cash.

How about BMI and blood test results?

[FlyerInHi]

Have you used an Amazon locker? It’s great for people who live in the city and can’t be home to receive packages, or where package theft is a problem.

[XBoxBoy]

[quote=FlyerInHi]Xbox, that’s not a bad idea, but i can think all kinds of insurance scams by the obese. They buy enough veggies to feed a child using a trackable system, then they buy junk using cash.

How about BMI and blood test results?[/quote]

If the insurance companies get far enough to monitor your grocery buying (not likely if you ask me but I just wanted to give an alternative side to spudboys paranoia) then I’d assume they will be monitoring lots of other things. Personally, I don’t like the idea of being heavily monitored, but I’ve more or less come to believe that it’s inevitable. So, if that happens I’m hoping to be able to use it to my advantage at least.

[spdrun]

Not inevitable — it helps to live in places where people live off the grid. I don’t mean rural Montana. I mean places which tend to cater to the “less documented, less banked” people among us.

Not a Starbucks or chain supermarket in sight, but plenty of bodegas selling barely-protected fruit while taking up half the sidewalk. For cash, cards not welcome.

One of many reasons why I hope Trump fails at his attempts to “clean up” illegal immigration. Illegal immigrant communities foster a culture where anonymity and privacy are valued.

[FlyerInHi]

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Not a Starbucks or chain supermarket in sight, but plenty of bodegas selling barely-protected fruit while taking up half the sidewalk. For cash, cards not welcome.
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I like small individually owned restaurants and i always pay cash because I don’t want the merchant to bear the cost of CC.

But most people like the consistency of chain restaurants.

[FlyerInHi]

New flash, I just built an Ikea kitchen and I noticed that the cabinets are, drum roll please…., made in USA! Quality made in USA 😉 I didn’t pay attention to the doors and hinges.

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