Posted on 06/20/2017 5:58:45 AM PDT by C19fan
Amazon is looking to reduce costs at Whole Foods with a new automated checkout system that would render thousands of cashiers redundant, it has been reported. Carmen Clark, 37, an employee at the Mount Pleasant Whole Foods, said, 'Everybody's been kind of joking that it's going to be robots and drones,' after the Amazon bought the grocery chain for $13.7 billion. It turns out Clark wasn't that far off, since Amazon is trying to reduce prices by replacing cashiers with a new mobile payment system, according to a person familiar with the company's plans who spoke to Bloomberg. But Amazon refuted the reports and denied that there were any job cuts in the works.
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AI is on the way, to terminate bunches of jobs. BTW, who guarantees the AI ain’t woke?
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