And now they are struggling to hire staff. Oh how times change

We need people as we need to speak to people when something goes wrong. I hate self service. why cant we give jobs to young and lower skilled workers.

I even avoid the self serve check outs try already have because I prefer the more personal touch of a check out person. But it’s the way of the world, so many jobs will disappear over the coming years thanks to robots and computers

If they are going to waste money on this, why not just employ more staff to get the job done. The government aren’t going to want to pay out more for unemployment benefits. It’s hard to get in the first place. My son is 35 and has to live at home because there are no jobs available. This plan will only see things escalate and if this happens, Coles will lose out because more and more people won’t be able to afford many of the food items available now

They will probably have lease exit fees as a lot of customers will probably boycott Coles when this development starts. Us a robot going to check there is the correct number of cartons on a pallet at all. I know of at least one warehouse where it was found that staff at one manufacturer were packing pallets a different way and it appeared to have more on it than it did.

It’s like talking to a 8 month old + that you are still trying to succeed with different flavours of solids.

Imagine how a Mum who never develops a breastmilk supply or one that has no nourishment in it through no fault of their own must feel.

My teen has been looking for a job for 6 months now to no avail and it’s because of places like this.
Kids are all going to have to become engineeers and electric repair men just so they can get jobs
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Time to get ready for the future what be prepared for all these things, so scary to go through this

I don’t like it. What a scary future. We will be so reliant on technology that a terrorise attack will only need to be to make hack into the mainstream and it will send us all in to caos

I don’t like interacting with robots! I much prefer people!

I dislike the idea of putting people out of work and relying more increasingly on technology. Wonder what they’ll do if things start malfunctioning and throws them way behind in productivity?

That’s the way of the future and unfortunate for some people.

I don’t agree at all the idea of replacing staff with robots. I don’t believe it needs to be our future. Always people first.

Never replace people with robots, so wrong.

I don’t like it.

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  • • Ellen replied
    • 10 Oct 2018 , 12:44 pm

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  Bad news for the Coles staff working at the supply centres indeed.

Whether we like it or not it is going to happen. This just means different jobs for people in the future. some of the jobs of the past no longer are here. The ice man, person emptying the outdoor loo, box boys and others like that. Our grand children will face different jobs to what is here now.

It’s expected and part of companies moving forward to keep up. Just look at Japan for instance and how far advanced they are compared to us. I see only positives.

Well, I’m not sure about this.
It still does create jobs. Someone had to create these machines, build these machines, maintain them and watch over them in the stores. It’s not a total loss of jobs.
This is something that we need to prepare our children for…. chances are the job that they will have in the future does not even exist yet.

more important than ever to refuse to use the self serve checkouts, at least we can have a say that way and keep some people still in jobs

Eventually there will be no jobs left for people to do – how will the government be able to pay for all the welfare if it gets no revenue from taxes.

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  • • musicmum replied
    • 09 Oct 2018 , 10:15 pm

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  There will still be taxes like GST and from businesses.