Toys R Us bankrupt

[ilikeplanets]

and because i fuck up getting the right brand or flavor or size or SOMETHING every time and some poor employee has to go fetch the right one for me.

[redbreegull]

Originally Posted by fuzzyroes

Yeah that's a good point. But I feel like it's a losing strategy in the end...

that's why you don't work for mcdonald's marketing department

[redbreegull]

everyone else continue using the self checkouts so fuzzy can blame immigrants for stealing the jobs

[Elphenor]

in an economy that made fucking sense automating would benefit everyone but instead it just means corporations can lay off employees

[ilikeplanets]

i'd pay to have the laid off employees shop for me

[buzzard]

Originally Posted by fuzzyroes

You're being presumptuous and smug. I know they're still currently operating... But we've seen the same thing play out regarding Chapter 11 with Tower Records, Virgin Megastore ETC... It's only a matter of time as far as I fathom.

You're being mindlessly nostalgic and dumb. I know what I'd rather be.

We've also seen the same thing play out regarding Trump on six occasions and we're still stuck with people like you thinking he's a hugely successful businessman that always gets things done.

[fuzzyroes]

I dunno man, I don't shop online... So for me, I like going into a shop to look around and buy stuff.

Also, If I'm at a fastfood joint, I'd rather just go up to the guy, tell him what I want and be done with it... I don't see the convenience of going through the whole routine of some touch-screen jibber-jabber.

[Elphenor]

Originally Posted by ilikeplanets

i'd pay to have the laid off employees shop for me

should automate my job and cut me a check to stay home

[buzzard]

Originally Posted by fuzzyroes

I don't see the convenience of going through the whole routine of some touch-screen jibber-jabber.

You don't see how it might benefit efficiency to skip an intermediary made entirely redundant by technology?

No, that makes sense. Let's pay somebody to stand there, listen to what you want to eat and then key it into the system so that the cooks know what to prepare. There'd be no sense in having customers do that instantly and for free.

[redbreegull]

pretty fitting that fuzzy's woes about the changing world are entirely centered on consumerism and physical crap, what Billy Corgan once described as the "junk culture of the 70s/80s"

[fuzzyroes]

Why should the customer have to bother poking around with it? These companies try and spin it as some kind of customer convenience but it isn't.

[Elphenor]

It is a convinience if you're not a retard

plus I can't stand to see the look of agony in the eyes of the poor soul b3hind the counter

[buzzard]

People much prefer communicating with customer service staff?

[redbreegull]

Originally Posted by fuzzyroes

Why should the customer have to bother poking around with it? These companies try and spin it as some kind of customer convenience but it isn't.

you'll find that you are in the extreme minority. As voiced in this thread, most people prefer not to deal with a human if a machine can do it efficiently, and it allows businesses to lay off employees and not pay for their healthcare and shit, so they see it as a win/win. If it's not what people want, it wouldn't be happening.

[buzzard]

I suppose it's not really a fuzzyroes post if it doesn't provide an insight into misunderstood loneliness.

[FoolofaTook]

Fuzzy vs. The World round 5,834,221,947

[fuzzyroes]

TOYS R US Add from 1994



if only we had the foresight to pick up a bunch of em and leave em sealed....20 years later we'd be able to make a killing.

[fuzzyroes]

Originally Posted by redbreegull

you'll find that you are in the extreme minority. As voiced in this thread, most people prefer not to deal with a human if a machine can do it efficiently, and it allows businesses to lay off employees and not pay for their healthcare and shit, so they see it as a win/win. If it's not what people want, it wouldn't be happening.

Oh, it would still be happening because it saves the company money.

I don't know why it's this seemingly big chore for some of you guys to spit out an order or share pleasantries with a cashier... It strikes me as incredibly abnormal.

It's not a big deal to me or anything, but I find it easier if a cashier scans through my products and bags them as opposed to going through the self-checkouts and fussing about through the whole process... Again, not a big deal, but I don't see it as convenient.

[Elphenor]

the forced small talk neither of you want but both feel obligated to engage in

[buzzard]

I rest my case, basically.

[fuzzyroes]

I think it's a reflection of this internet generation... No one even talks on the phone anymore, everythings impersonal to the point that simply placing an order is an inconvenience.

I really worry about the social ability of these upcoming generations. I'd wager big time that you're gonna see spikes in social anxiety disorders

[Elphenor]

you're just a perfect example of how the 90's created socially able adults

[redbreegull]

Originally Posted by fuzzyroes

Oh, it would still be happening because it saves the company money.

I don't know why it's this seemingly big chore for some of you guys to spit out an order or share pleasantries with a cashier... It strikes me as incredibly abnormal.

It's not a big deal to me or anything, but I find it easier if a cashier scans through my products and bags them as opposed to going through the self-checkouts and fussing about through the whole process... Again, not a big deal, but I don't see it as convenient.

1) It only saves the company money if people actually use it instead of being unhappy and complaining. There are things companies do to force the public into accepting their cost-cutting and profit-maximizing, i.e. how airline seats grow continually smaller... but automated ordering and checkout is not one of them. Congrats on not understanding basic capitalism tho

2) I don't even like self-checkouts because I don't want people to lose their jobs and I try to use lines with real cashiers when it's not insanely inconvenient... but I recognize that I am in the minority, and most people just want to get their shit done quickly and autonomously. I mean I want this too, I just don't want people to lose their jobs.

[redbreegull]

Originally Posted by fuzzyroes

I think it's a reflection of this internet generation... No one even talks on the phone anymore, everythings impersonal to the point that simply placing an order is an inconvenience.

I really worry about the social ability of these upcoming generations. I'd wager big time that you're gonna see spikes in social anxiety disorders

you're being a nostalgic crybaby, and like basically everything else, you just react in a knee-jerk way to anything being different than it was for you. Has it occurred to you that the rest of the human population does not share your desire for them to have the same life experiences as you?

[buzzard]

Hey, at least all those quack doctors are going to make a tonne off the pharmaceutical company kickbacks when the social anxiety disorder movement kicks in.

[ilikeplanets]

Originally Posted by Elphenor

the forced small talk neither of you want but both feel obligated to engage in

that's not why i dislike human-operated lines, i'm great at disregarding social expectations like small talk. i hate them because they are slooooooooow and i'm much faster checking out my own groceries. and i always seem to get stuck behind a 90 year old who wants to write a check but forgot her pen in the regular lanes.

[butthurt]

Support locally owned toy shops. They still exist. Buy your video games from the big retailers and real toys from the local shops.


Guitar Center is next. That's the rumor.

[butthurt]

Gotta go. My Amazon order of the entire new wave of Star Wars toys is here.

[qwerty sp]

I might be wrong but wasn't McDonalds actually considered cool until about 1998 or so?

[duovamp]

I'm not really too sad about it. I don't know if children need to be bewildered by valleys of plastic possibilities, displaying all the joys and sorrows capitalism has in store for them.