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"Good riddance to decisions that don't support self-care, self-value and self-worth"
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I witnessed something at a coffee shop. Teenager working register. Customer ordered. Kid rang it wrong. Customer yelled. Called him stupid. Incompetent. Made a scene. Kid kept apologizing. Near tears. Manager came over.
Expected manager to appease the customer. Apologize. Offer free stuff. Instead she said “Get out.” Customer looked shocked. “Excuse me?” “You heard me. Get out of my shop. Don’t come back.”
Customer sputtered. “I’m the customer. He messed up.” Manager stayed firm.
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I’ve been watching curling the last hour and for the life of me I’m trying to understand this game and can’t but still watching 🫠🫠 #Olympics2026
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@MichaelTontchev @mhdksafa When you factor in health insurance, sick days, vacation, pto, etc. wouldn’t the machines eventually save the company more money long term? I would even go further and say with the advent of AI, possibly possibly saving / replacing multiple full time employees?
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Cashiers are replaced by self-checkouts when the marginal cost of cashiers goes above the marginal cost of self-checkouts.
This means that the transition may happen at the crossover point, where it's quite likely that the immediate impact is small, but works to suppress future costs to the retailer.
Example:
T0 (cashier employed):
Cost of self-checkout (SC): $50
Cost of cashier (C): $30
T1 (cashier employed):
SC: $50
C: $40
T2 (cashier employed):
SC: $50
C: $50
T3 (self-checkout switch):
SC: $50
C: $51
T4 (self-checkout used):
SC: $50
C: $60
Notice that at the time of switch, the total cost barely dips.
This is obviously a simplified model. For example, stores wouldn't switch at exactly the crossover point, because there are fixed costs to the replacement. Also, the cost of the self-checkout doesn't necessarily remain constant. It also assumes that the cost of self-checkout starts above the cost of the cashier. But it does show a example of why you may not expect the switchover to directly result in present-day decreases in prices.
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