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Amazon’s 'Just Walk Out' grocery stores are dead (gizmodo.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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(via https://hachyderm.io/@jbcrawford/112202942593125987, archive: https://archive.is/VnqRZ)

surprise, Amazon’s godawful surveillance grocery stores were just exploiting hidden labor and calling it innovation, and even that was too expensive

even worse, the few times I’ve seen one of these fucking things in the wild, it still had 1-2 employees hovering near the entrance to make sure nobody did the utterly obvious (fuck with the payment system and get free shit), a job that’s also known as a fucking cashier, but with much worse pay, much harder labor (physically stopping shoplifters), and no counter to lean on or opportunity to even sit down

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (4 children)

It'd be swell if someone could go ahead and make an equal alternative to amazon. Y'know, doesn't have to be perfect, just - y'know better people and such.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Well we could always try buying locally again. Not that that's ideal or cheaper all the time. But it helps local business owners instead of stockholders.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

something something ethical consumption something something under capitalism

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

There are various European and Asian online stores competing with Amazon on national levels. Very few of them are relevant on a global scale though.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Better people wouldn't be able to compete with the cutthroat business practices that put Amazon on top in the first place.