For those curious, this is 9-18 hours of (US federal) minimum wage per day.
testfactor 30 points 3 months ago
To be fair, I'd imagine most of these are deployed in places with much higher minimum wage.
It's only 4-8 hours in California for example, using the same math.
Not saying it's good. Just saying that they probably don't have a wide deployment in, say, Mississippi.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble 24 points 3 months ago
Also most places don’t pay federal minimum wage these days. Even McDonald’s pays $15 an hour in most areas.
Mulligrubs 10 points 3 months ago
Last time I looked, over 10 million workers make federal minimum wage, tens of millions make less than fifteen an hour.
Our entire workforce is 160 million people or so, so it's a huge problem for our consumer economy.
Hackworth 16 points 3 months ago
Yeah, they make droid noises.
ZC3rr0r 33 points 3 months ago
What the absolute fuck. This has got to be the most ass-backward way of designing and implementing an inventory tracking system I have ever seen. They put no effort into the thinking behind "How do we replace employees walking the aisles regularly to check?" and went straight to "We need a robot to walk the aisles regularly" instead of any sort of sensible system that uses known shelf locations and sensors, for example. This is just really lazy on both the product designers and the supermarket chains.
4am 6 points 3 months ago
The have been a thing for a few years now, since way before the AI boom and even Covid in some places.
They also alert when there are spills, some can scan items for price checks or give directions to customers, and they’re like a roving security camera that can catch angles you don’t get from ceiling cams (although it of course has to be nearby)
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aBundleOfFerrets 46 points 3 months ago
Almost certainly. Probably not DIMMs though
a_non_monotonic_function 2 points 3 months ago
Why not? I would figure off-the-shelf components would be easier to work with.
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a_non_monotonic_function 1 point 3 months ago
Makes sense.
FartMaster69 6 points 3 months ago
Thank god for the humble hot air station
Canonical_Warlock 4 points 3 months ago
Look at mr fancy over here with their hot air station. Are you too good to just take a propane torch to the board and pray like the rest of us?
panda_abyss 13 points 3 months ago
Those eyes, and have you seen the backside?
FilthyShrooms 49 points 3 months ago
Tell your local crackhead that there's 10 lbs of copper wires inside
saltnotsugar 29 points 3 months ago
Watching for $200 is a steal.
MNByChoice 4 points 3 months ago
I cannot imagine them not hurting themself.
Cris_Citrus 23 points 3 months ago
Sorry, I'm not a be gay do crime queer, I'm a anxious that the person at the cash register is uncomfortable that I said hello to them queer
I feel like such a disappointment to my community 🥹 I'm so sorry I've let y'all down
Godric 12 points 3 months ago
Hey bud, I have a banger of a song that you might need in your life:
emeralddawn45 3 points 3 months ago
Not only are a lot of the fun drugs a crime in their own right, some of them might also lower your threshold for being willing to commit other victimless crimes!
BlameTheAntifa 6 points 3 months ago
You are doing your best and I am proud of you. Internet hugs are being sent your way.
GalacticGrapefruit 2 points 3 months ago
In this day and age, our very existence is a crime. You are gay, and therefore, you do crime just by breathing. :)
damnedfurry 8 points 3 months ago
The average grocery store employee makes $7.25 an HOUR
So, this is blatant bullshit, even more pathetic because it's trying to trick you into thinking it's true with scary red text and ALL CAPS.
As linked above, Payscale says the average is over $15/hour.
AdolfSchmitler 7 points 3 months ago
He also said he wanted to fuck the robot, can you fact check that real quick too?
WhyIHateTheInternet 5 points 3 months ago
Also bullshit and now I'm out $200
a_non_monotonic_function 5 points 3 months ago
Best $200 I've ever spent.
WhyIHateTheInternet 1 point 3 months ago
Well I didn't enjoy it and I'm not a sex robot ok so drop it.
ButtDrugs 6 points 3 months ago
Store near me has one named "Tally" thay goes up and down isles doing inventory. Its real tall and just scans the shelves. It is ironically one of the most employee-focused grocery stores, offering 401k and paid vacation and the like to its employees. Its a family-owned chain and well respected. The kids love Tally.
oatscoop 16 points 3 months ago
Which is what tech is supposed to do: make the shitty jobs easier. As long as there's enough other work and it's not replacing an employee I'm fine with that aspect of it.
There are other issues with it (privacy, subscription models, etc)
WorldsDumbestMan 7 points 3 months ago
Most employers legit despise humans, and legit treat their robots better.
And I understand why, you would all be the same shit as them if you had the money.
CarbonIceDragon 13 points 3 months ago
We had one of these when I briefly worked at a grocery store. Manager told me that it would detect spills and make a sound to alert staff, to reduce the odds of someone slipping and suing. never saw it do this before a customer would report a spill anyway though. Union did put up a bunch of flyers in the break room warning that if told to do some kind of training lesson related the robot, to refuse and call them to report it, never did see that come up or learn what the deal there was either.
dandelion 6 points 3 months ago
at my local grocery store, there is a robot that looks like the one in the OP, but it goes along the aisles and shines a bright light at the shelves, and is either scanning barcodes or is taking pictures or something - it's doing something related to inventory, price-checking, etc. but I don't know what, and I'm so curious what the robot is used for.
I don't think the robot I've been seeing does anything other than work its way through the store looking at the shelves, though. It's sorta annoying when you need access to a part of the shelf the robot is scanning, though, or when you have to move your cart around it, etc.
rainbowbunny 5 points 3 months ago
The average grocery store worker doesn't make minimum wage
rizzothesmall 4 points 3 months ago
That... Took a turn..
I_Has_A_Hat 2 points 3 months ago
I guarantee the average grocery store worker is getting paid above minimum wage.
Very few places only pay minimum wage these days.
Mulligrubs 1 point 3 months ago
Narrator- in this case, "very few places" means millions of employees.
wuphysics87 2 points 3 months ago
Why would anyone sell it when they can have sex with it themselves?
RamenJunkie 2 points 3 months ago
Is that $200 on top of the $500? I could use $700.
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