This is classic - first, the hippylibs whine about how horrible Wal-Mart is to it's employees and what terrible jobs they provide. Then when robots start replacing those jobs, they whine about the "valuable" jobs going away. Pathetic. I'm already checking myself out at Wal-Mart with the self checkout line and I love it.
Woe is me.
There should be a new law banning American companies from any further technological advancement.
WalMart is great and this is exactly why I love them. All the political BS that WalMart is facing right now can be viewed as being, in fact, investment capital for the development of automation technology. One day soon, they will replace every single worker with an RFID scanner. And the communist liberal wackos will be fuming mad, but won't be able to do anything. Absolutely freaking wonderful.
Almost everything that the left hates, I'll endorse.
Almost everything.
Marx was just a couple hundred years early.. Eventually physical labor will be phased out and a form of communism installed.
"The response was curious because, when a public relations person is faced out-of-the-blue with questions on a random topic like robots, he or she would typically pause, jot down some notes, and say something along the lines of, "Gosh, I have no idea about that, but I'll check into it for you.""
Hey, moronic cnet writer, did you ever think the PR person didn't have to pause because she's been asked the same idiotic question before?
Duh.
I guess Cnet was really desperate for some filler articles.
Welcome to WalMart. Can I get you a cart?
Hey meatsack. You want a cart? Go get it yourself.
Because whatever statement the company issues it's going to be spinned, chewed, and grinded up by the idiots from United Food and Commercial Union, as well as the usual anti-WalMart opponents making the same-old ad hominem attacks?
It's a good thing we don't have robotics helping to build automobiles and such, eh? I like paying $125,000 for a bucket.
This is great unless your name is Sarah Connor.
This is funny. I hate wall mart but this article is an unfair hit piece. First the author says this:
"The response was curious because, when a public relations person is faced out-of-the-blue with questions on a random topic like robots, he or she would typically pause, jot down some notes, and say something along the lines of, "Gosh, I have no idea about that, but I'll check into it for you."
The point? That wall mart was not hit out of the blue but knew about it. Then the author says this:
"And I am apparently not the first to hit a Wal-Mart nerve with a robot story."
To which I say, "Obviously. And that is why they were not hit 'out-of-the-blue' by your questions."
I have a robot and I love it! It's my Roomba, and he vacuums my floors for me. I am looking forward to welcoming his brother Scooba when it comes out later in the year. Scooba will mop my floors for me.
Life is good!
I gotta be honest here, the night before (11:00pm)Hurricane Dennis made landfall, which was also 36 hours after a MADATORY evacuation was issued, Walmart was open for business as usual. I'm talking managers, cashiers, stockers, the works. Everywhere else was closed, boarded up, and for the most part, people had left town. As I strolled the aisles of Walmart that night gathering my last minute hurricane supplies, I couldn't help but wonder what was keeping Walmart, and Walmart alone to keep operating as normal. Do they entice thier employees to volunteer to ignore evacuation recommendations and work for a little more money? Sort of a hazardous duty compensation?
To echo some other accounts here, our local WMT was open during a flash blizzard in April when nobody else in town was open. People were coming off the nearby interstate - which was closed - because they were stranded, and at WMT they found good service and a warm, welcoming store. They would have been without anything if it weren't for the local WMT.
So all you WMT bashers here, well, feel free to stay on that icy closed highway by yourselves next time.
