Posted on 02/06/2017 6:19:56 AM PST by Enlightened1
If you’re a robot stealing somebody’s job, it’s best to stay hidden.
That’s what Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos appears to be thinking, as his Seattle-based web giant has contemplated a two-story, automated grocery store in which a staff of robots on the floor upstairs grabs and bags items for shoppers below.
The ground level of the futuristic prototype — a supermarket-sized version of its recently unveiled “Amazon Go” convenience store, with a bigger layout that could span anywhere between 10,000 and 40,000 square feet — would be devoted to goods that shoppers typically like to touch, sources briefed on the plans told The Post.
Those could include as many as 4,000 items, spanning fresh fruits and vegetables, eggs, meats and cheeses, and grab-it-and-go stuff like beer and wine, the sources said. Pharmacies might also might spring up at some of the high-tech locations, as Amazon looks to break into the lucrative sector, insiders said.
But for many, the most striking feature of the bigger stores is that they could operate with as few as three employees at a time. Sources said the plans call for staff to max out at 10 workers per location during any given shift.
“Amazon will utilize technology to minimize labor,” a source close to the situation told The Post.
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Amazon GO will be put out of business by home “replicators”.
(”Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.”)
That’s what I was thinking. Who will keep the ferals from cleaning out the place?
At some point, the best and brightest will get on spaceships and leave the primitive hunter-gatherers behind to start all over again.
So everyone says...
Having no plan is planing to fail.
If there are eventually few jobs because of automation and robots. Then the majority of people have to live off the government nipple. I can’t help but wonder if people will be so cavalier about it?
With 5G about to come out. It was not suppose to roll out until 2024. It’s ahead of schedule and will be out in 2020 or 3 years from now. We are about to cross that threshold sooner than later (13 years). Do you remember were you were 13 years ago? Yeah it was not that long ago.
Amazon will just keep cutting their price.
I worked in one of their warehouses for a couple years, and I was even amazed an wowed at their cough cough cough smooth operations, their is flaws they will never talk about in their cute little videos you see once in awhile on line, and on TV, but even with their flaws they are a smooth operation.
Target was going to Jumpstart a new robot-run center...got 86’d after bad Christmas sales.
Sounds like Aldi's.
Being as this is Amazon, you might search out the products from your computer and pick up your order at the store.
Too many yuppies in that video.
Where are the shopping carts? I gotta bring my own bag?
Too plastic looking.
Demand curve flatlines, price goes to zero, supply side chokes on warehouse of stuff no one can buy ... this is the future of every capitalist that is obsessed with productivity, efficiency, and profit. Not their fault, but we have a serious structural issue on our hands when machines are fully capable of replacing humans at all levels of our economy.
This is part of what I am talking about.
The Blue Model for Economic Recovery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRjC9QEsHuM
Sep 19, 2013
In the second part of the American Mind interview with Walter Russell Mead, our guest and host Charles Kesler discuss the “blue model” for the American economy. Their starting point is Mead’s provocative accusation that the blue model is “Bladerunner with food stamps.”
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All those High Paying Manufacturing Jobs Donald Trump is going to bring back...wouldn’t count on it.
the days of making a good living with a strong back...treasure that in your book of memories.
Automation is not that good yet.... Jobs for the most part still require people. Nevertheless, it will begin to be a problem in 15 years.
This is why we are talking about it now. That way humans can figure out a way around it.
I’m optimistic with President Trump when it comes to the economy.
At least the tires are being made in the US.
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