Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores
gizmodo.com
Amazon Fresh is moving away from a feature of its grocery stores where customers could skip checkout altogether.

(via https://hachyderm.io/@jbcrawford/112202942593125987, archive: https://archive.is/VnqRZ)

surprise, Amazon’s godawful surveillance grocery stores were just exploiting hidden labor and calling it innovation, and even that was too expensive

even worse, the few times I’ve seen one of these fucking things in the wild, it still had 1-2 employees hovering near the entrance to make sure nobody did the utterly obvious (fuck with the payment system and get free shit), a job that’s also known as a fucking cashier, but with much worse pay, much harder labor (physically stopping shoplifters), and no counter to lean on or opportunity to even sit down

  • @self@awful.systemsOPEnglish
    84•9 months ago

    the secret sauce is always hiding labor exploitation behind a thick layer of bad ideas

    • @froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
      16•9 months ago

      “hey babe… what if we fucked the entire cashier class… in two countries?? 🥹👉👈”

      - bezos, probably

          • David GerardMEnglish
            5•9 months ago

            activitypub is underspecified in practice and interop comes from seeing what breaks

            • @self@awful.systemsOPEnglish
              4•9 months ago

              and the Lemmy devs generally insist on only implementing what is specified by activitypub, leading to some truly low-hanging fruit being absent. and besides that approach to federated software being fucking nonsense, it’s also something they’re very inconsistent on — they’ll use “we don’t implement mastodon-specific interoperability features” as an excuse to not fulfill feature requests, then use mastodon-specific interoperability features to implement their own pet features. it’s just pure toxic developer double standards