Pyro@pawb.socialtoCanada@lemmy.ca•Shopping carts that lock and security gates? Shoppers sound off on retailers' anti-theft tactics
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1 year agoIst shopping on the sales floor free labor. Back when you would hand your shopping list to a worker and the would give you all your stuff. (funny enough online pickup has kinda brought that back). Things change over time
Yes, much more staff is hired for online shopping
However funny enough some store increased the hours they had for the front end, I worked for a Walmart that did a conversation and they added like 400 hours to the schedule for monitoring and running the registers. Biggest thing is now they can have 20 registers open and pay for 4 cashiers, before they would have just only had the 3 cashiers and 3 registers. So I would not say the self checkout took jobs, it changed how the job is done