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1 posted on 08/09/2014 6:33:38 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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on the upside, the price of big macs won’t be going up.


2 posted on 08/09/2014 6:34:43 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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The machine will be able to understand English and get my order correct.


3 posted on 08/09/2014 6:34:49 PM PDT by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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Sad. All those living wage careers gone.


4 posted on 08/09/2014 6:36:03 PM PDT by llevrok (Straight. Since 1950.)
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Yabut, when will they be replacing their menu with edible food?


5 posted on 08/09/2014 6:37:58 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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If only they would put touch screen kiosks at the drive through...


8 posted on 08/09/2014 6:39:09 PM PDT by NYTexan
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Bring back the Styrofoam containers and fries cooked in beef tallow.


9 posted on 08/09/2014 6:39:26 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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Can a kiosk file an employment grievance?

Exactly! There you go 0bama, your chickens are coming home...to ROOST!

12 posted on 08/09/2014 6:41:27 PM PDT by Clint N. Suhks ( Laughter is the best medicine, unless you have diarrhea.)
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This is unfortunate to see all those imported Democrat voters will now have less jobs to steal from US citizens.


13 posted on 08/09/2014 6:42:10 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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It’s a good idea to me but take some gloves when ordering. Don’t like the idea of touching a machine before handling my food.


15 posted on 08/09/2014 6:43:11 PM PDT by Proud2BeRight
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The RATS will still try and find a way to get the robots to vote!! /s


18 posted on 08/09/2014 6:45:55 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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Elections have consequences


19 posted on 08/09/2014 6:45:58 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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Press one for English will be replaced with
Press one for a Big mac. I like it.


22 posted on 08/09/2014 6:46:46 PM PDT by Autonomous User
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27 posted on 08/09/2014 6:48:23 PM PDT by Brother Cracker ( Mossberg 500 helps me deal with being old and cranky)
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Look at the self-service checkouts in operation now. Touch screen with pictures. I’ll bet McD & BK already have the templates in use on their registers to aid illiterate staff members. Child’s play to roll this out to a kiosk that accepts cash or plastic. Heck, when the McD is inside Walmart, the Walmart cashiers can already place your order for you.


28 posted on 08/09/2014 6:49:16 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Kerry, as Obama's plenipotentiary, is a paradox - the physical presence of a geopolitical absence")
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McDonald’s employees who picketed for a better living wage (whatever that means) may come to regret that decision....
Once again, the law of unintended consequences. Always be careful what you wish for.
30 posted on 08/09/2014 6:49:47 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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Well to all the little 20 something libtards out there picketing for a $15 minimum wage this is a little economics lesson for you. When the cost of unskilled labor gets too high you can replace it with a machine. No sick days, no health insurance, no FICA, no vacation, no listening to the complaining, no theft.


34 posted on 08/09/2014 6:50:54 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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Apologies in advance..I want to ask a different, though related question: Has anyone tried to use the new self-checkout machines at WalMart?

They absolutely suck..Every other item it tells me to remove it, and reverses the entry..If I had a baseball bat..I'd beat it to death. I finally just left my cart, full of goods, and walked out.

WalMart seems to be trying to force people to use them...limiting the number of open cashiers...even when lines are long..

39 posted on 08/09/2014 6:53:43 PM PDT by ken5050 ("One useless man is a shame, two are a law firm, three or more are a Congress".. John Adams)
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Went by Sam’s today (of course the stuff they had the last time I was there was gone with an inferior product in it’s place) and there was a machine handing out pre-packaged apple sauce samples.


49 posted on 08/09/2014 7:02:39 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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Doesn't matter what McDonald's replaces their cashiers/order-takers (whatever they're called) with .... McDonald's is hardly what any reasonably intelligent person would call "food."

It's crap. No other word for it, just "CRAP!"

53 posted on 08/09/2014 7:08:14 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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For a location open 24 hours: The cost of human cashiers, not counting benefits, $15/hour * 24 hours * 365 days/year = $131,400

It's worse than that. At a previous job I was responsible for hiring a team of workers for this new site. The director had relied on some idiot to scope out the number of employees to staff a critical call center, and went minimal to shave costs while guaranteeing 24/7 staffing. I repeatedly argued with the director that his figures were unrealistic, thinking he could staff a position for three shifts with three people. People need restroom breaks, lunch breaks, medical time off, sick time, vacations, etc. No way would the site run 24/7. I continued hiring people while arguing my points, and got fired. The next couple of people hired after me argued the same, and got fired. Finally the director was swapped out.

For this article, the cost of human cashiers is higher than $15/hour * 24 hours because you require overlap with more cashiers to cover absenteeism of all types. A machine would not require overlap at all, until it breaks - easy to swap out for that rare event.

54 posted on 08/09/2014 7:08:20 PM PDT by roadcat
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