Walmart Gives Up Replacing Store Cashiers With Machines
Walmart Gives Up Replacing Store Cashiers With Machines
Thats according to a recent Bloomberg report, which reveals that the retail giant is getting rid of Mobile Scan & Go technology, which allowed customers to ring up their own purchases.
Apparently, the technology didnt work for Walmart's customers. "It took Walmart almost a year to figure out what the rest of us already know: you can't convince customers to do the job of a cashier just because you don't want to pay for the work, especially when eliminating cashiers doesn't result in more convenient shopping, says Making Change at Walmart (MCAW) director, Randy Parraz.
Meanwhile, the new technology hasnt helped Walmarts operating marginssee tables.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/panosmourdoukoutas/2018/05/16/walmart-gives-up-replacing-store-cashiers-with-machines/#71f7b0982f91
underpants
(182,627 posts)AND double bag it.
#thestruggleisreal
sinkingfeeling
(51,438 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,104 posts)cashiers and my WAIT there will just increase. I have no problem with Scan and Go's especially when I am just getting one or two items. I hate having to stand behind three carts full of groceries just to buy a carton of milk.
ProfessorGAC
(64,858 posts)Sorry, but i do go there. The pet food prices absolutely slaughter PetSmart, PetCo, and the local grocery stores.
Those Scan and Go areas just opened up a month ago, here.
Freddie
(9,257 posts)Are rampant at self-check stations, I hear. Like putting in the code for bananas and getting the same weight in organic raspberries for the banana price. No, I have never done that.
exboyfil
(17,862 posts)Prepackaged produce. Add the barcode (eventually RFID when price gets low enough).
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Target Stores have been the innovator for Retailing,both hard goods and soft goods. Have not seen a self serve Check Out in any one of their Stores for almost five years. Why,easy to figure out that. We call it shrink. Theft is also used as a descriptor. So easy to compromise these systems. And the dollar cost of a human running a register is cheaper than the dollar amount of stolen merchandise.
Watched a shopper at one of our local Wal-Mart stores last week using her I-Phone Scanner. Look like a great idea until,I saw her scan one item and put two of the same item in her carry basket. Sorry,do not feel sorry for WalMart,they created their own nightmare. And it is going to take more than minimum wage door shakers to stop their theft.
bucolic_frolic
(43,062 posts)Seems there was a charge for a bag if your items didn't meet a mini,um. It was poorly explained.