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Meanwhile, She's probably making a little over minimum wage for ringing them up. Yeah, We've had enough! 🤬🤬🤬🤬

Lately, there have been all kinds of incidents at Walmart. While some situations are actually kind and heartwarming, others are disturbing. Ultimately, Walmart has become the go to place for people to shop. Two decades ago, few could have predicted the big box chain becoming bigger than the mall. However, in many ways, Walmart has claimed that position. Especially considering the unofficial ending of Sears and Kmart, Walmart has taken a bigger market share. Unfortunately, wrongdoers consist of the market. With everything, there is the good and the bad. As Walmart wins by having more people, considering that is a...

Leftists who rallied behind behind legendary rock and roller Neil Young after his ultimatum to Spotify to cancel Joe Rogan and his immensely popular podcast or he would pull his music from the streaming service may have been singing a different tune if they were aware of his past homophobia. While the septuagenarian rocker who flipped sides from opposing “the man” during the turbulent 1960s to becoming a protector of an abusive government in his old age came up with the short end of the stick when Spotify sided with Rogan, the damage to his image with those who sided...

A store cashier in Tokyo been arrested on allegations of stealing the credit card information of 1,300 customers using just one tool -- his memory. A crime committed only with the help of a photographic memory would be one of Japan's more unique cases of credit card theft -- but certainly not the biggest. In 2016, a group of thieves used about 1,600 forged cards to withdraw money from 1,400 cash machines across Japan. In just over two hours, they stole $13 million.

A start-up uses visual tracking and behavioral data to operate a new San Francisco market, which lets shoppers walk out unimpeded. And sometimes mischarged. One recent afternoon, the city’s newest grocery market was trying to figure out whether I would buy, steal or leave behind a bag of white Cheddar popcorn — and so was I. On its side: 27 cameras along the ceiling and a wealth of behavioral data. On my side: crippling indecision. Last week, San Francisco got its first completely automated cashierless store, Standard Market. Shoppers who have downloaded the store’s app can go into the 1,900-square-foot...

Walmart's NYC-based innovation center is experimenting with a cashier-less store concept called Project Kepler, which "aims to reimagine the in-store shopping experience with the help of technologies like computer vision," Recode reports. Project Kepler is in part aimed at creating a store that would feature no checkout lines or cashiers, but use computer vision to detect which products customers leave the store with and then charge their accounts accordingly. Why it matters: Amazon is also experimenting without cashiers, while roughly 3.5 million Americans operate cash registers for a living. Recode also reports that Walmart's new start-up subsidiary, called Code 8,...

Mamaw encouraged me to get a job—she told me that it would be good for me and that I needed to learn the value of a dollar. When her encouragement fell on deaf ears, she then demanded that I get a job, and so I did, as a cashier at Dillman’s, a local grocery store. Working as a cashier turned me into an amateur sociologist. A frenetic stress animated so many of our customers. One of our neighbors would walk in and yell at me for the smallest of transgressions—not smiling at her, or bagging the groceries too heavy one...

Patriotic Great-Grandma Volunteers For Iraq Duty Oklahoma Woman, 72, To Be Deployed To War Zone POSTED: 7:16 am EST November 22, 2004 LAWTON, Okla. -- A 72-year-old great-grandmother from Oklahoma is preparing for deployment to the war zone in Iraq. Lena Haddix will be a civilian employee of the Department of Defense and volunteered for the duty. She said she wanted to do something for her country. Haddix was a military wife and has worked at the Fort Sill PX since 1977. She's expected to have a similar job in Iraq, working 10 hours a day. Her preparation for deployment...