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Amazon’s 'Just Walk Out' grocery stores are dead (gizmodo.com)

submitted 1 year ago by self@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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(via https://hachyderm.io/@jbcrawford/112202942593125987, archive: https://archive.is/VnqRZ)

surprise, Amazon’s godawful surveillance grocery stores were just exploiting hidden labor and calling it innovation, and even that was too expensive

even worse, the few times I’ve seen one of these fucking things in the wild, it still had 1-2 employees hovering near the entrance to make sure nobody did the utterly obvious (fuck with the payment system and get free shit), a job that’s also known as a fucking cashier, but with much worse pay, much harder labor (physically stopping shoplifters), and no counter to lean on or opportunity to even sit down

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[–] EnderMB@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Is this accurate? Amazon only recently opened some in London.

If so, it looks like even more layoffs at Amazon. For the third year running, multiple arms of the business have been running rolling layoffs, where every 6-12 months jobs will go...all while they continue to hire more people, without a mechanism to move laid-off folks into available roles.