Amazon's retail grocery business struggles, despite advanced tech.
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from Tea@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world on 14 Mar 01:50
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from Tea@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world on 14 Mar 01:50
https://programming.dev/post/26897328
Amazon is consolidating its grocery business after a rough couple of years for its physical retail stores. The company told Marketplace in a statement it’s eliminating “a very small number” of jobs across teams working on Amazon Go convenience stores and Amazon Fresh grocery stores.
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Are these the same “completely unattended” Amazon locations, which turned out to have thousands of what essentially were middle-eastern slaves operating the shops remotely?
I thought they were Southeast Asian, or maybe I’m recalling incorrectly.
I think the operative word is “slaves”.
You gotta label the slaves correctly, it’s in very poor taste to not do so.
That’s a fair point.
If they’re talking about Whole Foods, it’s because you walk in there, and you’re like “ok, let me get some chicken, let me get some porkchops, and let me get some cereal.”
The prices on all that shit is INSANE. I saw a 5 pack of pork chops for $19. Then I walked over to the chicken. $22. Then I walked over to the cereal. $8.
Total money I spent that day: $0.
Total times I’ve been back since: 0.
These companies have lost sight long ago on the fact that you can do all the bullshit in the world to improve behind the scenes processes, but if people walk in and see THOSE prices, when aldis sells the same chicken for $8, porkchops for $6, and cereal for $3? Fuck it. I don’t give a shit if your chickens are cruelty free grassfed. I’ll kick a chicken and fart in their mouth right now if it means food is cheaper! People out here having to choose between food or rent. Yeah, the high price businesses will suffer. The cheap businesses will flourish.
they’re not talking about whole foods.
my man are you aware of plants? try some goddamn beans instead of farting into chickens. do not eat the beans if you’re set on the farting thing though. don’t want to make this worse.
Eating more beans and lentils has saved me a butt load of money. Tofu too but price of soybeans might be going up soon so who knows how long that’ll last.
Advanced tech? What advanced tech? People watching you on cameras? The highest rate of wake word false positives? Something else I’m too dumb to understand?
Advanced tech in such a small footprint? Can’t wait for all the ai bros to invest in $100k robots to do the work of $10 foreign workers.
Takes a look behind the curtain because I like cool things like “advanced tech”, noticed it’s just poorly payed contractors being taken advantage of and discouraged from unionizing.
Fuck amazon and fuck whole foods, their subsidiary.
Whole foods used to be great. Now they can get fucked. Steal all the pizza and tip the scale at checkout.
Because of*
I like to pick out my own produce, shop markdown items and sales, and I like getting out of the house. My regular store has a bar too. I never drink there, but there is usually some eye candy around. And for those who want to shop from their PC or phone, Kroger delivery is quicker where I’m at.
It was bound to happen. The model wasn’t that reliable, and Amazon was basically paying so many people to double-check the model, they may as well have staffed the store the traditional way, with a self-checkout.
Plus, in the eyes of much of the public, those people they hired to double-check the model were instead hired to act as traditional cashiers working remotely behind an impersonal, semi-friendly dystopian interface.
advanced techminimum wage workers in India watching Americans shopDespite or Because?