A Declining Profession

Whether you think that being a cashier is a dying profession or not, actually depends on how you look at it, I suppose.

It is a dying profession if you hope to seek a real paying job, this is one that you will actually receive a paycheck.

There Is Two Sides To This Economic Coin

You are the consumer, but you are also the store employee, except you do not get a paycheck. You wiait on yourself just like you do at home, except you do not get paid for it.

It's Called Artificial Intelligence

That's right AI for short and they say it is the wave of the future. It is also what companies are counting on to save them from a sinking economy.

So What's The Deal With No Bags

If you buy into the speech, that they give about plastic bags ending up on the waterways, and killing the fish, well perhaps you are in for a big surprise. I did at first, because I live in a coastal state. However, I soon figured out when they went to paper and then started to charge for those same paper bags that it was a budget cut.

So Let's Get It Straight It's A You Deal

In the age of automation, let's get it straight, it's a you deal all the way.

First YOU pick out the items you want to buy.

Second YOU ring your items up at the self checkout cash register. -- NO CASHIER NEEDED.

Third, YOU pay your money for the items, and it is a pleasure for YOU to do so.--BAND CARD NEEDED.

Fourth - YOU bag your items yourself, if you have the foretought too bring your own bags.

Do Not Fret The Small Things

If you forget your own bags from home, please do not fret. God gave you two hands didn't he???? So use them and carry them out in your hands and don't complain, no one will hear you anyway. I forgot to tell you that many times you cannot find a sales person in eye shot.

Cashiers are being replaced by self checkouts at an alarming rate. They have one cashier manning several self check out registers.

However, you will be hard pressed to find that cashier, if you need help doing your self check out, or if the automation system fails or malfunctions.

Oh that's right, they are replaced by AI.

You Be The Judge

They say that AI is here to stay, but the verdict is out, of how that will work out for the world.

Will it sink us, or will we swim with AI into the next decade. Only time will tell in a future that is uncertain.

Places They Have Automation

Banks have automated tellers, and almost all companies have automated lines. It saves companies money, and time. However, I wonder at what cost to the workers in any country that the automated lnies are in.

For every cashier that is replaced with self checkouts there is one less job for a person who was formally a cashier. For every automated telephone line, there is one less job for a person that was previously answering that same telephone line.

Do People Like Automation

Well maybe the employers do because it saves them money. However, what about the consumer?

People are said to be replying to the automated line, including myself, "Let me talk to a human being, someone with a pulse".

The long and short of it, sometimes to get to speak to a human being, to help you, you have to ask for a prompt that will help the company make money.

For instance, at a bank, ask for "Loans", and for a cable company, ask for "Upgrade".

Is Automation Here To Stay

I for one certainly hope not, and I think I have plenty of company on that score. Plenty indeed.

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