McDonalds To Replace 2,500 Human Cashiers With Digital Ones

[BeerParticipant 11832]

All these things about auto checkout always just seem like fear mongering to me. You know what is more efficient, cheaper, and already exists yet hasn’t put mass amounts of fast food workers out of work? Apps that just let you order online. I do think if minimum wage was 15 bucks an hour that places would be more aggressively looking for ways to cut back on employees and hours, but from what I’ve seen of auto checkouts they have to have people watching them all the time, they have glitches and break down at times, and I’m really doubtful they even save money because after the initial wave of them was put into a lot of places 15ish years ago when they were first coming out, they haven’t really expanded anymore, and some places around here have even pulled some of them out.

Also at pretty much every fast food and retail place I’ve been to, and when I worked retail when I was younger, when the cashier isn’t ringing anyone out, they are doing other things. Just for example when I worked retail, one would always hang out by the registers and stock the stuff on the shelves in the checkout lines and just do a little cleaning when it was slow, and the rest of the cashiers would be off stocking shelves and just get paged up to ring people out as needed. It wasn’t like a cashier is a cashier who just stands there thumbing their butt if they aren’t actively ringing someone out, and 1 machine is an equivalent replacement for 1 cashier.

[BeerParticipant 11832]

Boar wrote:

Yup. And they are still working on heavy driverless trucks, drone package delivery, smart software, etc.

Anymore, I would just like to check out of the system. I do not see a good endgame to the world’s current direction.

I don’t think you have to worry much. Lawsuits will kill development in self driving technology. Getting into an accident where the responsible party is some billion dollar company would be as good as a winning lottery ticket, and even the tiniest of glitches would cause an accident.

[AstroParticipant 2045]

Fast food workers did this to themselves. Fast food has a very tight profit margin and most franchises cannot sustain paying everyone that much. If they could, I would quit my current job and go flip burgers and mace .50 more than I am making now driving. It is sad though because eventually, many people are going to lose their jobs to machines and automation. Still, someone will always be needed when the damned things throw a cog.

Carnage wrote:

Get me those automated sex dolls going rigth now, that’s what I want in development.
By the way there was a guy with experience in sex dolls here, who was it?

I wrote about my own love doll but she isn’t automated. She currently has four wigs, two eye colors and a small wardrobe. Other than her, I have gone monk.

[AutoliteParticipant]

Beer wrote:

I don’t think you have to worry much. Lawsuits will kill development in self driving technology.

Exactly! Commercial airliners can pretty much fly themselves but no one seems to be in a big rush to completely eliminate the human element…

[AutoliteParticipant]

Beer wrote:

I do think if minimum wage was 15 bucks an hour that places would be more aggressively looking for ways to cut back on employees and hours, but from what I’ve seen of auto checkouts they have to have people watching them all the time, they have glitches and break down at times,

If done properly maybe it could be a win-win situation for everybody. Suppose you took every cashier and assigned them to “watching” four automated tellers each. Increasing the number of automated self check-out machines on the floor would mean faster check-outs, most customers and higher sales would it not???

[IRuleMeParticipant]

SkinnySweatyManInAGreenSuit wrote:

Automate my french fries. I hope Russians hack those machines and cause McErrors, this is all sensitive infrastructure now. -Whenever I am forced to eat fast food I feel like a hamster trapped on planet habit-trail. That s~~~ is gross and unhealthy too.
On a philosophical note, I feel that we as humans are trying to create the ultimate human experience, by eliminating as many humans from the equation as possible. Seems contradictory. Anyway the modern fast food burger is closer to a dirty sponge than a real bbq hamburger.
The real problem is eating at McDonalds.

That and the burgers are so small, and the quality of beef is so low…

[Anonymous 14]

S~~~, Fast Food jobs are about the only thing left in the U.S. for the masses… Once they automate it all it is game f~~~ing over for the economy. Food Stamps and Welfare watch the f~~~ out, because the masses are coming for your asses.

[BeerParticipant 11832]

Autolite wrote:

If done properly maybe it could be a win-win situation for everybody. Suppose you took every cashier and assigned them to “watching” four automated tellers each. Increasing the number of automated self check-out machines on the floor would mean faster check-outs, most customers and higher sales would it not???

In theory if you could replace 4 cashiers with 4 automated tellers and one person watching them it would work great…but in terms of fast food I don’t think I’ve ever been in a fast food joint with that many registers in use at once anyhow. Plus a lot of the time the cashier does other things not only at slow times but when its busy they’re usually pouring drinks and stuff, or at places like Subway or Dunkin Donuts the person who rings you out is probably the person who just made your sub or your coffee. It would probably actually be slower in places like that for me to have to navigate through some touch screen checking off boxes and s~~~ for what I want, then have some guy read it and make it rather than me just take 3 seconds to tell the dude what I want and if he has any questions he can ask as he goes.

I’d expect them to catch on in retail way before they got big in fast food considering your local Walmart or grocery store tends to have more registers in use at once than a fast food joint tends to have, and I really haven’t seen them take off all that huge even in those places. Most of the stores around here that put them in put in one wave of them and never added even more, and some places even had them for a few years and took them out. I kind of suspected they noticed an increase in theft but I’m not really sure of their reasoning. It really doesn’t take a lot of stolen merchandise or items rung up as something cheaper to suddenly make that 10 dollar an hour cashier a bargain.

[hollowtipsParticipant 681]

You better believe this s~~~ is coming to f~~~ us in the ass in the next 10-15 years.

[Jim01Participant 6678]

Untamed wrote:

All forms of payment will eventually – and I think rather quickly – become automated for the simple reason that everyone will be microchipped and a computer-cashier will then scan your chip and debit your bank account.
The trend’s already started, a few million people and families have already been chipped and several large corporations are planing to chip their employees for clocking in and getting access to the building. A few are doing that now.
Once cash is gone so will the cashiers. And don’t think you’ll have a choice whether to get chipped or not, you won’t. Right now it’s on a voluntary basis, not obligatory but do you remember when having a bank account wasn’t compulsory? Try to conduct your life without bank account now and see how far you go. It will be the same for the microchip implant. Soon it will be impossible to live in society without it and that’s when the prophecy of The Mark of the Beast foretold in St.John’s Revelation will come to pass:
“It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name. Here is a call for wisdom: Let the one who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and that number is six hundred sixty-six.”
The “number of a man” is 666 because a man made up the framework of the barcode to be 666. But the actual ” calculation ” of the number of “its name” comes up to C.O.M.P.U.T.E.R by MY calculations. It’s a simple process to figure out, for a believer who doesn’t take anyone’s words for granted.

it is funny how everyone called David Icke a nutter for predicting stuff like that happening and only the other week I watched a news report on how this is now about to happen…

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