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Is that $200 on top of the $500? I could use $700.
Hey, $300 is $300.
Sorry, I’m not a be gay do crime queer, I’m a anxious that the person at the cash register is uncomfortable that I said hello to them queer
I feel like such a disappointment to my community 🥹 I’m so sorry I’ve let y’all down
You are doing your best and I am proud of you. Internet hugs are being sent your way.
Hey bud, I have a banger of a song that you might need in your life:
Not only are a lot of the fun drugs a crime in their own right, some of them might also lower your threshold for being willing to commit other victimless crimes!
In the store where I work we have a cleaning robot that autonomously cleans the aisles. At least, that’s what it’s supposed to do. It’ll only enter an aisle that’s completely empty, and if someone goes into the aisle it’ll back out, so that means the highest footfall areas basically never get cleaned except overnight, while the aisles very few customers visit… are still not particularly clean because it’s not very good at its job.
And store manglement fired our only cleaner, so if we have a spill, all we can do is put a cone on it and leave it until the store closes.
Please lemme know what store so I can come in and “accidentally” slip and fall and hurt myself on one of these uncleaned messes. I could use some sweet corpo cash.
Stores don’t actually own Towelie. They rent it for $2000-$4000 per month per robot.
why have staff work 1 hour extra per month when you can pay at least double with this fancy roomba
For those curious, this is 9-18 hours of (US federal) minimum wage per day.
To be fair, I’d imagine most of these are deployed in places with much higher minimum wage.
It’s only 4-8 hours in California for example, using the same math.
Not saying it’s good. Just saying that they probably don’t have a wide deployment in, say, Mississippi.
Also most places don’t pay federal minimum wage these days. Even McDonald’s pays $15 an hour in most areas.
Last time I looked, over 10 million workers make federal minimum wage, tens of millions make less than fifteen an hour.
Our entire workforce is 160 million people or so, so it’s a huge problem for our consumer economy.
Your numbers are way off. It’s <2% of workers making minimum wage and a significant fraction are waitstaff who are getting most of their income from tips.
Your numbers are way off. It’s <2% of workers making minimum wage and a significant fraction are waitstaff who are getting most of their income from tips.
You’re leaving out a LOT of workers, I’m afraid; 20 states don’t have a higher minimum wage. So they should fuck off I guess
In 1938, Federal Minimum wage was for a family of four to stay out of poverty… we’ve obviously abandoned that. But keep defending the status quo that’s fine it’s your right
And where are you getting your data from? Browsing the DOLs OFLC wage search the lowest I can find for a wage level 1 food service worker was 8.48 searching through rural Mississippi. Most metropolitan areas are > 10 an hour closer to 15.
Just because states don’t have their own minimum wage doesn’t mean everyone in a shit job is actually making that little.
I’m not ‘defending the status quo’ I’m saying your numbers are bullshit. Less than a million people make federal minimum wage and most of those people are wait staff who are taking home a lot more than that.
I thought this was just a meme. Stores use AI robots for inventory now? What?
Yeah, they make droid noises.
What the absolute fuck. This has got to be the most ass-backward way of designing and implementing an inventory tracking system I have ever seen. They put no effort into the thinking behind “How do we replace employees walking the aisles regularly to check?” and went straight to “We need a robot to walk the aisles regularly” instead of any sort of sensible system that uses known shelf locations and sensors, for example. This is just really lazy on both the product designers and the supermarket chains.
The have been a thing for a few years now, since way before the AI boom and even Covid in some places.
They also alert when there are spills, some can scan items for price checks or give directions to customers, and they’re like a roving security camera that can catch angles you don’t get from ceiling cams (although it of course has to be nearby)
Rumor is that Boston Dynamics is working on integrating this into one of those Dog Robots so that if it detects you shoplifting it can run you down and tear you to pieces right there in the cereal aisle
It’s not shoplifting if you haven’t left the aisle yet. Are they also developing a future crime prediction chip?
Are they also developing a future crime prediction chip?
Yes, here’s the training data they’re using. Its 99% as accurate as current police.
spoiler
Oh man I hate the BJ’s robot noise.
I’m fine with the inventory robot, but can’t it just make a whoosh or whirr like an electric car?
I’ve read all the site and I still don’t know what that thing is supposed to do. The meme is right.
Does it have RAM in it?
Almost certainly. Probably not DIMMs though
Why not? I would figure off-the-shelf components would be easier to work with.
probably. but soldered. probably just a toradex calibri or something doing iot shit.
or a nuc with a shitty dimm form factory.
Thank god for the humble hot air station
Look at mr fancy over here with their hot air station. Are you too good to just take a propane torch to the board and pray like the rest of us?
indeed!
Why do you think it costs $35k?
Those eyes, and have you seen the backside?
No, but I’ll pay $500 to get at it.
What’s a geocery robot?
Store near me has one named “Tally” thay goes up and down isles doing inventory. Its real tall and just scans the shelves. It is ironically one of the most employee-focused grocery stores, offering 401k and paid vacation and the like to its employees. Its a family-owned chain and well respected. The kids love Tally.
Which is what tech is supposed to do: make the shitty jobs easier. As long as there’s enough other work and it’s not replacing an employee I’m fine with that aspect of it.
There are other issues with it (privacy, subscription models, etc)
Tell your local crackhead that there’s 10 lbs of copper wires inside
Most employers legit despise humans, and legit treat their robots better.
And I understand why, you would all be the same shit as them if you had the money.
The average grocery store worker doesn’t make minimum wage
Watching for $200 is a steal.
I cannot imagine them not hurting themself.
Our grocery store has had this thing for years, and it doesn’t seem to do anything but get in the way. I have no clue why they pay for this stupid thing.
U wanna fuck that robot? Just watch as I trip over it and sue
Kinky
the robot does more than “nothing”, no?
weird that the meme says that
We had one of these when I briefly worked at a grocery store. Manager told me that it would detect spills and make a sound to alert staff, to reduce the odds of someone slipping and suing. never saw it do this before a customer would report a spill anyway though. Union did put up a bunch of flyers in the break room warning that if told to do some kind of training lesson related the robot, to refuse and call them to report it, never did see that come up or learn what the deal there was either.
at my local grocery store, there is a robot that looks like the one in the OP, but it goes along the aisles and shines a bright light at the shelves, and is either scanning barcodes or is taking pictures or something - it’s doing something related to inventory, price-checking, etc. but I don’t know what, and I’m so curious what the robot is used for.
I don’t think the robot I’ve been seeing does anything other than work its way through the store looking at the shelves, though. It’s sorta annoying when you need access to a part of the shelf the robot is scanning, though, or when you have to move your cart around it, etc.
