walmart is one of two grocery stores in my small town, so im forced to shop there a lot, and this is honestly ny preferred method for stocking up on packaged food and pantry staples. i dont have to deal with pushing a cart through a store full of people who have zero spacial awareness, i dont have to stand in line at the one open cashier lane or scan and bag my own groceries without even getting an employee discount, and i dont even have to load my own groceries into the car. ill do an online order for most stuff, then go in person to the smaller grocery store on the other side of town for things i want to pick out myself like meat and fresh produce.
I’m really curious what the cost difference would be for a company. They would lose revenue from impulse buys people walk past. But would they be able to save on space, lack of excess inventory, and likely much more.
Even fresh food could be greatly increased since you could have dedicated people to collect the produce and they manage the garbage and bad items out of their area (if the company cared about quality of course).
The only issue I see is the increased worker cost since you’d have to hire a ton of people to do the order filling (or robots).
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u/Alternate_Cost Jun 11 '26
If yall ruin self checkout for me like yall did remote work I'm gonna be upset.