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Re:Amazon Go by monochromatic on Monday December 05, 2016 @12:00PM (#13106879)
"I don't like the company that you wageslaves work for, so I'm going to create a big stinky mess for y'all to clean up. (And also waste some trivial amount of the company's money.)"
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Re:Amazon Go by maverick_iceman on Monday December 05, 2016 @12:31PM (#13107227)
Wow, you are a horrible person. Intentionally wasting food and then making poorly paid Walmart employees to clean it up.
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Re:Amazon Go by icebraining on Monday December 05, 2016 @12:23PM (#13107117)
I think the point wasn't that employees cared about the loss, but about having to clean-up the mess. Especially if they're forced to work overtime on account of that.
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Re:Amazon Go by anonbanker on Monday December 05, 2016 @12:47PM (#13107416)
There's some interesting concepts you've brought up here:

1) Does Wal-Mart force their employees to do overtime? How is this legal?

2) Are Wal-Mart employees paid well enough to take pride in the appearance of their store?

3) Do Wal-Mart employees have a bad day because they have to fish an open bag of sliced ham out of a box in the Shoe Department?

my personal experience is "no" on all three, but I'd be interested to see other experiences from current or former Wal-Mart employees.

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Re:Amazon Go by icebraining on Monday December 05, 2016 @01:17PM (#13107739)
Well, now it's my time to shit on Walmart :)

Regarding (1): http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=87844&page=1

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Re:Amazon Go by dragonwriter on Monday December 05, 2016 @12:27PM (#13107161)
> Such a scheme does not ingratiate your employees to helping with loss prevention.

In retail, especially low-end, employee theft is the main thing loss prevention deals with.

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Re:Amazon Go by codesuela on Monday December 05, 2016 @12:42PM (#13107366)
are you 12 years old?
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