How do you feel about supermarkets replacing employees with Artificial Intelligence?

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Sainsbury’s is cutting 3,000 jobs, with supermarkets turning to robots for stacking. How do you feel about self checkouts and how do you feel about AI replacing workers?

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00:00People from small towns, there's not the same chances and if you're taking away the limited amounts of jobs that there are

00:06for like 30 seconds of convenience, or so like some billionaire can put more money in his back pocket,

00:11it's just, it's disgusting. Do you know what I mean?

00:14I don't like the self-service checkouts at all. I prefer to go and queue. I'd rather queue.

00:20I think it's the way forward, AI, and I think if you use wisely, in the right way, it's good.

00:27Sure, obviously businesses will want to like try and cut back on cost. Labour is the biggest cost to a company,

00:33but in the long run, you start doing that, people will be like, well, if you're treating staff like that,

00:39why would I want to go shop at it? Those cut kind of values can come in.

00:43That's why you see like something that's good with like with Aldi and Lidl tend to be getting more and more bigger

00:49with people wanting to go to, because one, it's more affordable, got all the same stuff, and it's cheaper,

00:54but also typically in, when you go into them, they do have self-service checkouts, but more often than not,

00:58it's all the full.

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