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September 19, 2016

Bring in a big minimum wage and kiss your jobs buh-bye.

The retail giant joins other companies like Foxconn and Wendy’s, which both made headlines earlier in 2016 for making similar workforce decisions.

Foxconn’s casualties were the most pronounced, as the electronics maker cut some 60,000 factory jobs and replaced them with machines. And Wendy’s cited the rising cost of labor and competition among fast food chains as motivation for its own decision to replace some cashiers with kiosks. After all, how much friendly service are you really expecting with your burger and fries? - - Walmart is cutting 7,000 jobs due to automation, and it's not alone

Posted by gerardvanderleun at September 19, 2016 11:24 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Fire the hell out of everybody and make all food joints robot controlled drive-thru's only.

No dine in or take out.

Phone-in, Drive-tru. Only.

12 lanes, no waiting.

Everybody wins, 'cept the whining losers.

There, a peek at a slice of your immediate future.

Posted by: ghostsniper at September 19, 2016 6:13 PM

Thomas Sowell's BASIC ECONOMICS should be mandatory reading starting in junior high. Today's students are fed tripe and too stupid or simply pussified snowflakes that couldn't take the reality of how the Free Market works. The "I want free shit" crowd will have a hard awakening when they realize they have turned this cash cow into Venezuela, Cuba, Argentina or any other third world socialist shit hole.

Posted by: Snakepit Kansas at September 19, 2016 7:33 PM

These are the same politicians that believe if you increase the cost of cigarettes and soda this will decrease demand, but if you increase the cost of labor this will have no effect on employment.

Posted by: Ray at September 21, 2016 10:11 AM

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