Robots will restock grocery shelves in hundreds of stores amid labor shortage

[dat feel]

Robots will restock grocery shelves in hundreds of stores amid labor shortage

The robots can handle a pace of about 1,000 items a day.

nypost.com

over for humanoids

 

[Deleted member 21272]

finally

they need to get rid of cashiers too

 

[dat feel]

a lot of stores have self-checkout now, been that way for years

even fast food restaurants screens for ordering

soon the entire thing may be automated, no more human cooks

 

[thereallegend]

Robots bring in more revenue but human labor has better profit margins.

 

[dat feel]

Robots bring in more revenue but human labor has better profit margins.

for now, maybe

but mass adoption of robot tech will significantly lower their prices which will make human labor simply too expensive

a robot can work 24/7 and you don't have to deal with employee theft and HR problems

 

[thereallegend]

for now, maybe

but mass adoption of robot tech will significantly lower their prices which will make human labor simply too expensive

a robot can work 24/7 and you don't have to deal with employee theft and HR problems

A capitalist has to pay a robot what it’s worth or it won’t work. Humans are different. Wages are less than the value the worker creates.

 

[Luan]

yang started a third party

 

[Vermilioncore]

Damn some star trek shit innit

 

[Luan]

i don't support it. ubi isn't in their main platform

 

[dat feel]

what are their main selling points

 

[hebbewem]

This is good

 

[Luan]

ranked-choice voting

Ranked-Choice Voting

Ranked-Choice Voting is simple – you rank the candidates in order of preference. Read the Forward Party's platform to fix our broken electoral system.

www.forwardparty.com

 

[dat feel]

rcv is a good idea. what else? post bullet points

 

[Luan]

Our Platform

The Forward Party supports ranked-choice voting, open primaries, and other reforms that will lay the foundation for a more representative multi-party democracy.

www.forwardparty.com

 

[Luan]

 

[Luan]

 

[Hero of the Imperium]

rcv is a good idea. what else? post bullet points

You have to beat the corrupt bureaucracy first

But they are becoming old and decrepit and soy

So it may be possible for an earnest and determined movement to have an impact

 

[Luan]

fetterman 2028

 

[Deleted member 16984]

Humans were not meant to stock shelves

 

[Luan]

dream scenario for 2024:

gabbard, williamson and ventura all run

trump landslides biden/harris/buttigeig

hawley becomes trump's heir apparent

hawley vs fetterman for president in 2028

 

[OldRooster]

Why the fuck is there still a labor shortage? What happened to the people that used to stock shelves before the pandemic? Are the supermarkets requiring that the shelf stockers get vaccinated, and they don't want to get vaxxed. Are there that many people that are so afraid of the faucivirus that they still never go out in public? Why the hell is no one talking out this?

 

[dat feel]

people die or retire every day

new jobs are created that require labor

the US has this perverse problem where it has a huge appetite for labor which cannot be satisfied by the US birth rate, even with massive migration, way beyond healthy levels and closer to self-destruction, it still needs more workers

when we enter a period of decline it's going to be painful

 

[OldRooster]

There was not a similar labor shortage pre pandemic. The only labor shortages prepandemic were in tech and computer positions. There were plenty of shelf stocker and fast food types to keep those businesses running. Now that new home construction has finally crashed, I should think a lot of those construction workers would be able to fill the open service industry jobs, possibly I am over estimating how many of those construction workers speak functional English. If they can't find construction jobs, stf are all those Mexicans flooding over the boarder going to do, there are only so many lawns to mow.

 

[dat feel]

obviously they must be busy doing something

the labor shortage was probably coming, the pandemic just accelerated everything, especially with many people dying, and many people choosing to stay home or stop working, which means the restaurant workers moving on to better paying jobs

i've heard of restaurants having to shut their doors because of workers quitting, they just can't keep staff, and they can't make the numbers work if they pay crazy high wages

the solution for now is more workers. that's why the faux outrage about border crossings is just optics. those people are needed, assuming they aren't part of the drug cartel network or killers/rapists, which many of them are, let's face it

this problem is easy to solve, but the political will isn't there. simply close the border, remove anyone who didn't migrate legally to weed out criminals, and bring people legally who have no criminal background, not just from mexico but from all over. it's still a lose-lose proposition long-term because a country cannot keep its identity with massive immigration. basically Rome 2.0, you're just lucky you experienced the best of it and won't be around to see how things turn out