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Re:In Manufacturing and Retail, Robot Labor is Cheaper Than ... by bsder on Friday March 17, 2017 @05:41AM (#13892708)
> That's interesting - I don't know if I've ever heard of someone going the other direction.

You've never dealt with some of the cretins we have in the US.

It's a tradeoff between space vs. time. If square footage is cheap, you can add more lines until there are enough that even with your guaranteed cretin blockage there will always be a line open. If square footage is expensive, then having cashiers to manhandle the cretins is more productive.

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Re:In Manufacturing and Retail, Robot Labor is Cheaper Than ... by ghshephard on Friday March 17, 2017 @06:24AM (#13892873)
What's interesting, is that Land here in Singapore isn't precisely cheap - but all the fair price stores that I frequent have automated kiosks. Particularly if you have Apple Pay (or "Pay Wave") as they call it here, if you have just a few items, you can scan, bag, pay in under 60 seconds. It's pretty awesome.
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