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juminRhee
London Boy:
You could shop at a non-franchise locally owned shop if you don't want your money going to those rich companies.
London_Bhoy
I always use the checkouts in London and refuse to use self service tills. A) Why should I do the job myself and B) by using the tills, I'm helping to keep someone in a job. There's no way I'm going to help a stonkingly rich company lay off more staff just so they can make a bit more profit.
juminRhee
Each store could have aisles of vending machines that they buy from. No cashier needed. No high tech (other than vending) needed.
juminRhee
Self checkout can exist without the facial recognition and stuff. Its called vending machines.
TARA TAN KITAOKA
MMMMMMM, any human call this action hrlp for the japanese economy ???.
Do the hustle
They’ve had self-checkout supermarkets in other countries for decades and they work well. I don’t understand why it becomes such a huge issue for Lawson (or any other store in Japan) to introduce them.
I think their goal of having a totally staff-free shop with robots cooking and restocking shelves is quite ambitious and ambiguous. If a shop has no staff, it has minimal overheads and their goods must be cheaper.
minimize staff, yes! Eliminate staff, no!
mrbaberunee
I like the idea, we are tracked where ever we go, so not a prob there
It'll make life easier for many,and who wants to work in a conbini anyhow?
ulysses
Technology is what will save Japan when the population numbers keep going down over the years.
So a step in the right direction.
Madden
Why complicate things with this excessive technology? Just have smaller stores that are only self-register equipped and have people scan their own items.
JonathanJo
A trial of a similar no-checkout store failed in the uk.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-49652026
since1981
No thanks. Are people really okay with Lawson "monitoring" your smartphone? Or perhaps I'm too old to understand today's technology?