• EhForumUser
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    1 year ago

    I don’t appreciate stores trying to force me to do the cashier’s job.

    But you don’t mind the fact that they have you doing the warehouse picker’s job?

    I also don’t appreciate them trying to pull the rug out from under the economy. If there’s one thing my country does not need, it’s millions more homeless people.

    And maybe the first millions wouldn’t be homeless if you weren’t so keen to take their warehouse picking jobs. Once upon a time it was a respectable profession. Why do you care so little about them?

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        1 year ago

        The person who works in the warehouse to pick the items off the shelf when an order is placed. You know, the job you were conned into doing when you enter one of these warehouse-style stores that we are talking about.

        It wasn’t always that way. Historically, you would place your order at the front counter and a diligent worker would work behind the scenes to gather your request. Some businesses still operate this way, to be sure, but it has largely gone the way of the dodo. It is generally more profitable when the customer does the work.

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          1 year ago

          Yeah, and people are apparently not super pumped about being warehouse pickers either because online ordering is only going up.

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          Unless I’m mistaken, all online retailers of non-digital goods operate that way, so that job is far from extinct.