Tuesday, December 4, 2018

When Will Cashiers Extinct?

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Many jobs have disappeared in recently and many more in next 10 years in America. If they are existing, they might be in different fashions. There are many reasons, some of them are cheap labor costs elsewhere, immigration and consumer tastes. 

However, the most reason is automation or high technology to conduct service and produce consumer goods. Several jobs are predicted to be extinct soon include postal workers, jewelers, telemarketers, cashiers, manufacturing workers and even farmers. 

A digital receipt, credit to Walmart

Since last years, we saw more than 80% counters are without cashiers in Walmart, the biggest grocery store in the USA. It is mean that we must check out by ourselves. The system made difficult for us at first, but we are getting familiar now.

We not only pay electronically for groceries, but also could get digital copy of purchase receipt by registration at Walmart Supercenter. No receipt paper and might save tropical trees for future generations. In this sense, automation is good for us.  


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  1. Thanks for this positive post on automation as I often have doubts on this. Maybe as I am almost 60 years old.

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    1. Many people, includes me have doubt with replacement of human being to technology.

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  2. I am sure it will become the norm very soon.

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  3. Many jobs will be extinct in the next few years - anything involving driving is high on that list.

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  4. I tend to avoid the self check out. I worked as a cashier for a few years. I figure since the store isn't paying me, I'm not going to do work when I shop.

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  5. I think jobs will be reduced, downsized, but will not entirely disappear.At the store, we check out by ourselves, and yet there are problems sometimes, and the intervention of a cashier is needed.

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  6. technological progress continues to develop based on intellectual intelligence and sophisticated tools. Thank you for useful information

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  7. Yours is a good point. Also check-in operators in airports are disappearing...

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  8. I love the cashier, someone you talk to.

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  9. Hello,
    I prefer the cashier, the techy stuff can have errors and problems too.
    Happy Wednesday, enjoy your day!

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  10. Saves time when the queues to regular cashiers' are long.

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  11. Some stores here had the self check-out counters, then did away with them in favor of cashiers and just this week, I saw that the self check-out is back. It beats standing in a long line sometimes!

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  12. An interesting publication. Personally I lament the deletion of workstations when it is already so difficult to find work.
    Have a great day.

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  14. Yes, many jobs will extinct in coming years. Though, there is still a grocery store which does not have self-checkout near where I live. Maybe those stores will be minority but still live on :-)

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  15. I hate self check out! I will use it if I have a few items and the lines are long. Otherwise, I wait for a person.

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  16. No estoy muy de acuerdo contigo, ciertos puestos de trabajo no deberían perderse nunca. El papel en muchos aspectos se ahorra, sin embargo existen otros derroches de productos infinitamente peores y además mucho más perjudiciales para el ser humano y para cualquier otro ser viviente de este planeta. Vivimos una época en la que las grandes multinacionales nos hacen bailar a su antojo e intentando marcar el camino de lo que tenemos que hacer y aquello que no debemos hacer pero siempre pensando en resultados empresariales y por desgracia casi nunca en el bien común.
    Dentro de poco nos dirán que es bueno hablar y mantener conversaciones con una máquina o Dios sabe que nos tienen preparado.
    Saludos

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  17. We recently saw that our local McDonalds now ha a Kiosk where you order and pay for your food. Jobs are being replaced by robots.

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  18. This is also the case with us.
    Good evening.

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  19. Automated check out stands may be the future, but I'm not sure if the post office will become extinct. How?

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    1. actually, not really extinction, but reduce due to replacement of digital mails. Packages delivery might be taken by private companies.
      Amazon have developed their own delivery systems as an example.

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  20. No receipt paper and might save tropical trees: this is a good news from innovative methods. Somehow the digital world makes me feel somehow distressed, but we must see also the positive aspects. Interesting post!

    Greetings from the Bavarian Forest!

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  21. You know Tanza, I hate automation or high technology. We no longer enjoy talking with people. People talk with their machines and neglect the fact of enjoying people. The future sucks to me and of course because I'm 69, they will say that I am just to old. Maybe I am but I still like talking with another person face to face. See ya.

    Cruisin Paul

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  22. Thank u, Tanza, for an interesting post. We analysed digitisation pros and cons in sociology. But manual drawing and painting will survive, I want to believe. Gulp?! Cheers, wink, wink, Sadami

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    1. sure... we need artists forever...

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  23. It seems so efficient BUT... I don't like self checkout! The machine is constantly scolding me because it did not like the way I put the item in the bag. Really annoying! Also, I like exchanging pleasantries with a real person. I predict people will shop in stores even less than they do now.

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  24. Dear Tanza - Thank you for visiting my blog. Being older I still appreciate a live person waiting on me. It seems like a machine just can't replace a smiling face. Took a look at your previous posts...thanks for sharing about every day issues. I so enjoyed meeting you. Hope you have a wonderful day.

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  25. Sometimes I definitely like to use an actual cashier, but yes, the self checkout is a great option, and often faster.

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    1. sure, good for younger people, but take a while for older one.
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  26. It's the trend of hi tech also faster but lack of human interaction.

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  27. I like cashiers and will wait in a line for one instead of checking out on my own.
    Every time I try I my own something goes wrong. : )

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  28. Tanza, I'm old fashioned and I always use a live cashier, even if I have to wait a couple of minutes. I like dealing with people and the loss of unskilled jobs across the country will become a crisis if its not already. Just my opinion. Take Care, Big Daddy Dave

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  29. Thank you for this thoughtful post!

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  30. I really don't like those self check-out stands. I rarely go to them. I guess I just like the one on one interaction between cashier and customer.

    Have a restful weekend.

    ~Sheri

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  31. I think most of us still chose the cashier over the self check out. But I'm thinking once the stores go Amazon-go style, we're going to like how easy is it and won't miss those check-out lines. :)

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  32. Automation has its plus's and minus's. Self-check out can be convenient, but when there's a problem, it's a live person who is the only one who can help us. And that's how it should be :)

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  33. Generally, I don't mind self-checkout or other forms of automation that make life more convenient. I only hope that we are training those whose lose their jobs so that they are qualified for other positions.

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  34. I’m not for automation wholeheartedly. Cashiers must be preserved to those who don’t have a smart phone and for the time when network outage happens. Actually millions of smartphone users in UK and Japan were taken offline by Ericsson equipment about 5 hours yesterday. Not so often, but that could happen.

    Yoko

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  35. Stopped by to bring Pawkisses for a Happy Weekend 🐾😽💞

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  36. Thanks for your visit and commentary.
    Nature is very important.

    Good days.

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  37. Sometimes it is hard for me to keep up with such technical progress.
    However job extinction will be coming soon and we have to accept it.
    Partly I agree with Dori. We should see positive aspects,I think.
    Lovely weekend to you.

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  38. Things are definitely changing. We see lines at self checkout now when there was never a wait before. My husband is a pro now at self checkout with weighing produce.

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  40. Much the same story here, Tanza.
    Yes, I agree, it will help save the trees...but I do miss dealing with a person. A nice friendly smile brightens up the dingiest of days!😊😊

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  41. You should see Macy's. I haven't been in that store in years, and after yesterday I'll never go there again. There are NO clerks. Well, one that I finally found with a line around her cash register. Clothes on the floor, not on the racks. That place looked like it had been under siege.

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    1. thank you to let me know. I just read in media that the store is planning to close down.

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  43. It's kinda scary how many jobs are being "replaced" by machines. I don't mind it per se right now because I do find it efficient, but it is detrimental to those who rely on these jobs:(

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  44. Yeah think about this is really sad
    Very interesting blog
    xx

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  45. I know it is progress, but I don't really like having to do self checkouts. It seems so much of the time it doesn't work right, and we have to end up waiting for someone to come and fix it.

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  46. I hope to see her/his smiles at cashiers sometimes. Yes, maybe occasionally... :)

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  47. this is very informative. but i prefer someone on the counter.. that's the better service for me.

    anyway, I like your blog, wanna follow each other? please let me know. thanks :)

    IT’S A GIRL THING
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  48. I think it might .. nowadays i see more and more automation

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  49. Great. Your words are full of good suggestions.

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  50. Love this post,make me thank that this era all need to be automated 😂

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  51. I am not a big fan of self check out. I prefer interacting with a real person.

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  52. It's sad for those who will lose their job. I prefer having a live person to check out with.

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  53. It's sad for all the jobs being lost! I will not use self check out! I hate it!

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  54. I'm not a fan of everything being automated. I skip the line where I have to check myself out. Would much rather interact with a real cashier and mostly pay in cash.

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  55. I tend to avoid the self check out.
    I like to talk to a cashier.

    All the best Jan

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