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I watched a self-checkout lane in my local grocery store go from one human cashier to six automated kiosks in under a year.
The manager told me it cut labor costs by 70% but I can't stop thinking about the five people who used to work that shift and where they are now, so has anyone else seen a job get completely replaced that fast?
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patricialee1mo ago
Five people gone in a year? That's not just a shift, that's a whole crew wiped out. The manager bragging about labor costs while real folks are out of work makes my stomach turn. It's one thing to add a couple machines, but replacing almost every human that fast is brutal. They didn't just cut costs, they cut lives loose. What are those five supposed to do now, just vanish?
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