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

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Is this accurate? Amazon only recently opened some in London.

If so, it looks like even more layoffs at Amazon. For the third year running, multiple arms of the business have been running rolling layoffs, where every 6-12 months jobs will go...all while they continue to hire more people, without a mechanism to move laid-off folks into available roles.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You get 30 days of continued pay with an assigned internal recruiter to help you do an internal job search.

But honestly, who the fuck wants to get the, "you're being laid off." and still want to work for the company when there's a giant severance check waiting for you to get out of that toxic hell-pit?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Everyone I know who works for/has worked for Amazon treated it like a deal with the devil. The money was good but they will push you into the ground for as long as you can take it. And then a bit longer.