Yeah, robots might be fine for picking packaged goods, but when it comes to meat or produce, not so much. Will the robot choose apples that aren’t bruised, or lettuce that isn’t wilted, or meat that isn’t starting to rot?
The last time I was in Kroger’s, last week, they had no checkers on duty at 10:30 pm. That means I had to use the self checkout to scan and bag over $300 in food. Their stupid machine keeps telling you to “put the item in the bagging area,” whenever you move the bag to make room for new items. It sounds like they’re accusing you of stealing which annoys the hell out of me. The lady behind me dropped her 2-liter bottle of coke and it exploded all over my stuff and hers. It was a nightmare! It took me half an hour to check out, which is ridiculous. If robots are the future for Kroger’s, they’d better start paying the customers when they’re forced to bag their own items because I doubt robots would be capable of doing so.
No. And neither would the human tasked with emptying the pallet.