@Npars01 Me too. I just don't go. I won't spend $ in a store I don't like and I don't like that. Especially when it's so easy to support small businesses/ma+pa shops etc. Vote with your wallets. 👍
The companies with the most self-checkouts are often the ones reporting record profits, the most stock buybacks, highest dividends, and biggest CEO bonuses.
After decades of putting their employees onto government programs like food stamps, they've resorted to placing that same unpaid labor exploitation onto customers
@Npars01 @pluralistic I remember being in upstate New York in the Catskills and driving at night back to the hotel. I saw a glow in the distance. I drove towards it and found out it was the largest Walmart superstore I had ever seen, in the middle of nowhere. It was probably the only store for miles. Totally surreal!!
@Vee This is not true everywhere. I've said it before, but I hate the concept of "voting with your wallet" as the amount of influence you can exercise that way depends on the size of your wallet.
Hah!!! I made one stop at that survey line and dangled the receipt above his head saying see? see? c'mon jump !!...I just walk right out now ignoring them ,even if they make a half assed lunge towards me. Fuck.em,I juat spent 30 minutes waiting in line to do their fucking job.
Nicole Parsons
in reply to Vee • • •Self-checkout is so aggravating that I've left prospective purchases at the checkout and left.
These stores had the choice to pay staff adequate wages but refuse to do so.
I have the choice to leave their items behind and decline to give them my money.
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Nicole Parsons
in reply to Vee • • •The companies with the most self-checkouts are often the ones reporting record profits, the most stock buybacks, highest dividends, and biggest CEO bonuses.
After decades of putting their employees onto government programs like food stamps, they've resorted to placing that same unpaid labor exploitation onto customers
@pluralistic is right on corporate #enshittification. It starts with ripping off employees, then customers, then vendors, then investors.
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writermonki
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •@Npars01 @pluralistic
Not necessarily in that order.
lin11c
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •I remember being in upstate New York in the Catskills and driving at night back to the hotel. I saw a glow in the distance. I drove towards it and found out it was the largest Walmart superstore I had ever seen, in the middle of nowhere. It was probably the only store for miles. Totally surreal!!
Jonathan Cremin
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •@Npars01 @pluralistic I'm conflicted because I prefer to do self-checkout, but the societal impacts are still concerning.
Also, they don't do receipt checking in Irish stores. I'm not sure how much of a factor that is on the experience others have.
Jonathan Lamothe
in reply to Vee • •FurballsNHairballs
in reply to Vee • • •I made one stop at that survey line and dangled the receipt above his head saying see? see? c'mon jump !!...I just walk right out now ignoring them ,even if they make a half assed lunge towards me.
Fuck.em,I juat spent 30 minutes waiting in line to do their fucking job.
Meercat ✅
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