Re:Shops return to rural Sweden but are now staff-free
by mytailorisrich on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @10:18AM
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> Until we have developed artificial general intelligence, I wouldn't trust a computer to recommend a cheese to with a certain kind of crackers.
Supermarket employees, if you can find one around, have no clue about this and can indeed at most tell you the location of a type of item.
> In stores with a reasonably wide selection of goods, I usually have to ask for the location of at least one thing.
Which is easily doable through an app on your phone or touchscreen in store.
The reality is that as soon as the technology is there, and we seem to be very close, many supermarkets' staff will become redundant across the board.
Having real people providing real service will still be a thing, I think, but more of a luxury experience. To take a British example: There won't be many staff left at Tesco but there will still be at Harrod's.
Supermarket employees, if you can find one around, have no clue about this and can indeed at most tell you the location of a type of item.
> In stores with a reasonably wide selection of goods, I usually have to ask for the location of at least one thing.
Which is easily doable through an app on your phone or touchscreen in store.
The reality is that as soon as the technology is there, and we seem to be very close, many supermarkets' staff will become redundant across the board.
Having real people providing real service will still be a thing, I think, but more of a luxury experience. To take a British example: There won't be many staff left at Tesco but there will still be at Harrod's.