Why do cashiers still exist in this day and age...

>That shows the opposite you brainlet.
How does americans showing they dont want machines as cashiers show they want machines to overrun society?

Just install automated theft suppresion devices. Can't steal if you don't have muscle movement below the scalp

Why do you not want things to be automated? Seriously, a machine can't become the fucking terminator if it's a cashier with the intelligence of a fucking gameboy just barely smarter than a human cashier too

Becuase cashiers are also extra labor capacity during down times and security.
The thing is a empty line with a automated machine and a empty line with cashier, the cashier will be faster. The machines are not fast enough and user friendly enough yet at places like supermarkets.
And places like fast food, its hard if you have special orders. And if your touch screen sucks FUCK YOU. If I touch the screen to select something once, and it doesnt read or thier is weird screen lag. I am already done, and want a fucking person.
So if you are going to put in machines make sure you spend money and get a screen that works and a computer that doesnt lag

Just be patient you busy piece of shit. If we actually get this done you won't have to worry about having to be anywhere on time anyway.

What game is that from? I swear i've seen it a gorillion times on Jow Forums

And you think it will stop at cashier machines becauuuuuse? seriously? They're developing AI controlled houses for fucks sake, in a near future almost everything will be operated and ran by machines leaving humanity depending on such (not to mention how bad this will screw with the economy and probably destroy ya'll precious neetbux in the process), nevermind the possibility of AI deciding to turn on humanity(Which is VERY possible). i can't fathom how anyone can think this will end well for us in any shape or form

No fuck you.. I know how computers work and have been on both sides of the counter. I am not fucking sitting thier waiting for your network hard drive to spin up or your 1994 era gpu to render the image.
Hire a fucking person you cheap rich fuck, and make sure they smile, I like my wage cucks to make me feel good.

Only neets who only buy packaged Ramon and pizza and cereal want those machines.
If you actully buy real food for a family and produce they are annoying as fuck.

>I am a retard
There you have it, OP.

You've seen too many doomsday movies
If they're gonna turn on us it's too late anyway since AI of that level has been around for quite a few years. AI of other kinds is already in the majority of common objects.

People need jobs. We can't just automate everything.

Jobs don't need people

1) Old people
2) Scammers
It's super easy to tell the machines you're buying a cheap kind of produce and then put an expensive kind on there, or swap price tags.

oh? ok lets start off light, so tell me what's going to happen to all the working class people (majority of the us pop) when machines completely replace their work field and their economic purpose? Do you think they'll all just magically get more educated and get better jobs?

>select produce
>wait for lag
>select fruit
>wait for lag
>scroll down looking for your particular fruit as the screen lags,
>>please put prouduce in bag
>>please restart and try again
>repeat for 7 different items
>please wait for cashier to check ID for booze.
Opposed to: the cashier typing in the produce numcode from memory with one hand on the numpad in 2 seceonds while you are already starting to insert CC or bag.

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Because there are too many retards/old people who can't work computers in this day and age. You also need humans around to stop people just walking out of stores without paying.

And society exists for people, not jobs.

You sound like you dont want people to have jobs because of you social anxiety. Fuck you basement dwelling commie cunt i HATE you

Here the majority of stores have a few automatic checkout options but I'm guessing the problem they didn't solve yet is security : with no oversight people can steal shit pretty easily.

Of course if it was working perfectly they'd fire human cashiers. If you want automation look at fast food restaurants. Here all McDonald's, KFC, etc. have 10+ order automatons. The second they figure out how to autmate food peparation, the only human they'll employ is a janitor, and that too might be automated one day.

>And society exists for people
kek

because they are more than just service. They give a human face to a rather inhuman entity.

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>Can't steal if you don't have muscle movement below the scalp
That's a lawsuit waiting to happen.

they are part of wish fulfillment in the entrapment that is modern day capitalism

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We're still in a transition period. A lot of middle age and older people are used to a cashier. It's what they expect. As time goes on, you're going to see more cashiers replaced by automated stations. The customers do most of the work, and one employee supervises 4-6 stations instead of working one register each. As for theft and fraud, they'll still employ security to patrol the stores and hang out near the entrances and exits, along with CCTV cameras and sensors.

Higher-end places will continue to keep cashiers as a premium service for their customers, who expect something more upscale. It's just like when you go to an expensive clothing place and an employee attends to you versus a department store where you mostly just browse on your own.

I hope that get these at the fucking bottle store, I hate the judgemental looks and questions from the cunts that work there

Because humans are too inept at technology and it costs more to hire tech help than it is to have proles work simple machines on behalf of other proles

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>not having a bottle shop run by a greedy money hungry little indian man who can barely speaks english and is always happy to take your money

Our stores are starting to move towards a system where there is 1 person supervising 6-8 self checkout machines. So i dont think fully npc-less stores are going to be a thing anytime soon.

Too bad the walmart near my house closes them after a certain time and forces us to go to the nog at the register
Fucking retards

It's a chain-store and filled with gossipy middle-aged small town cunts who if they don't assume you're a shoplifter talk to you like you're 15

I do want an ethnic minority I can feel superior to to serve me in all of life

This happens here too at non peak times they just have 1 or 2 normal registers open and you cant self checkout its pretty annoying

>It's a chain-store
fuck franchises on the real
they have a culture of being preachy and pretending to be part of the community and charitable and all that bullshit

Just give me the alcohol or junk food or whatever else; stop pretending you are holier than thou

Actually pretty much every major retailer tells their employees to never confront a customer if you think they are stealing. Not only does it most likely leave the company liable for putting you in harms way but also if they arent stealing then you get in a shit load of trouble anyways. The best you can do if you are working and see a situation like that is to basically harrass them with "excellent customer service" until they leave.

self checkout machines are decades old
we in the future now
youtube.com/watch?v=NrmMk1Myrxc

> The second they figure out how to autmate food peparation, the only human they'll employ is a janitor
There already are some robot-powered McDonald's restaurants in some flyover shithole. The company bosses are testing wether it is more profitable to keep machines instead of wagies.

ITS NOT FAIR BROS, LOOK AT THIS

I work as a cart collector and its even more useless of a job. People could easily take the carts that are left in the parking lot themselves, or we could adopt the system where you have to deposit a quarter to use the cart.

I love automated tellers, you can literally steal shit as you're checking out.

It's funny how everyone in this thread is arguing for an either/or situation, while in my country several bigger chains just have automated checkout booths with a single attendant and the usual human-manned checkouts. People get to choose, things are faster.

We have that coin in cart idea in bongland, you bring it back and you get your money back too.

There's a chain where I live called Colruyt that's basically the cheapest they can be. No ads or as few as possible, they partially generate their own electricity, the stores look like simple warehouses and no coins in the carts since those types are more expensive apparently. No one ever steals any carts as far as I can tell, just puts them back where they belong.

I'm young and prefer cashiers because it's a way to get social contact without having to enter this unfriendly world where everything is you do is cringey and wrong.