Walmart reading the Tea leafs?

BlackGun said:
McDonald’s is back to testing and implementing auto drink dispensing with mini conveyer drive. If nationally the $15 min wage occurs fast food will end indoor dining forever. Wages go up, employees go home. Good bye remaining manufacturing jobs.
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I think that’s going to happen anyway. They have found that they make more money, dont have to bus and clean tables, don’t need the extra help and the cleaning supplies they save. I look for all new fast food to be more like Cookout.
 
Ya'll are getting too excited about automation, especially with restaurants.
Look..folks may deal with faceless nameless humbug for a while, but they will not do that forever.

Food A thinks it's been great..drive thru/take out only. Minimum interaction. Says this is what we're gonna do forever. We'll automate the hell out of it.
Food B decides to open up their dining room with honest-to-God real people. You know, because Food A and others aren't, and maybe we can get some market the others have ignored.
After always eating in your car or pushing buttons on a machine, where you gonna go?
Not to mention, sure makes for a good date/kids along/wife night out in a cramped stinky car or trying to figure out how to instruct the machine to add cheese.
Yeah. See you in the dining room. You'll probably need to call ahead as it will be packed.

The big boxers might try more self serve check out and such, but same as above..one of them will decide to increase customer service, because the others aren't.
Where you gonna go? Even if it costs 5% more?
You're gonna go to the place where someone talks to you.
And like always, the others will follow suit because dadgum...turns out people, even blue collar folk, will pay for better service and they'll be forced to actually look you in the eye again.

If you want to go somewhere to buy something in person, you're not gonna deal with an in-person Amazon for long. First off it sucks, and secondly, why? Just order from Amazon at home and have it delivered.

Stupid decisions come and go. But business always comes back to the handshake and a smile.
Even Amazon.
Always.
 
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If robots can do this

they can manage the fryers and microwaves.
 
two fingers said:
Wal-Mart voluntarily went to $15 hr a while back. Made a big deal of it in the press. Huge PR move.

Of course, then they started slashing full-time employees by the thousands. So now their bottom line is the same or even better even though they are supposedly paying a "living wage".
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sorry to tell you but Walmart went to $11, not $15 an hr I know my wife has worked with them for years. Not sure where you got your info from but wherever it was it was wrong
 
eddie0225 said:
sorry to tell you but Walmart went to $11, not $15 an hr I know my wife has worked with them for years. Not sure where you got your info from but wherever it was it was wrong
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Relax. I just went by news stories. Walmart themselves were touting their new living wage policy a while back. Maybe it started as $11 with a goal of going to $15 by a certain date. Don't know. Don't care. There's isn't enough money to get me to work there. What a dung heap.
 
And people say things are going to change, pull your mask down and look around you silly goose.

And no sound was heard around the world.
 
Honestly, I have to wonder if this whole Covid thing has been a boon to,
places like McDonalds. They’re getting drive through traffic, dining rooms are non existent to minimal and they operate a limited menu which will cut costs.
 
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