Law of Unintended Consequences Strikes Grocers

netbuzz writes "The law of unintended consequences is taking a chomp out of grocery chain profits as more stores transition from human clerks to self-service checkout technology, thus reducing the time shoppers spend in line and under the temptation of impulse items. That's the upshot of research being released tomorrow by IHL Consulting Group in Franklin, Tenn., which provides market analysis to the retail industry and its IT vendors."

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Re:Breaking Unions is priceless

[hab136]

earning $6 bucks/hr.

Six dollars bucks per hour? Does he deposit that money into his ATM machine using his PIN number?

Re:My statistical sampling of "one" matches theirs

[drsquare]

I wouldn't try to do this in America. Any group action that tries to make any sort of societal change is likely to be labelled as terrorism.

People who deliberately do things like in the grandparent post are just scum, maybe they deserve a trip to Guantanamo, it might teach them to act like civilised people.

If you don't like self-service checkouts, simply don't use them, go to another shop. If I was a minimum wage worker at a supermarket and someone did that, I'd lay them out.