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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Sunday, September 10, 2006 ::
Confessions of a Wal-Mart addict - Tom Purcell, a free-lance writer, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
But doesn't improving productivity often mean replacing people with computers and automated processes? Wal-Mart even has automated check-out machines. Every time I use one, I feel like I've cost a cashier his or her job.
You have it backward, Tom. Every time you use an automated check-out machine you are creating better jobs! The company that makes those machines hires people to engineer, manufacture and transport its products, and those employees surely earn more than a Wal-Mart cashier.
You're saying that at the same time I get to enjoy the savings that Wal-Mart produces, I am actually helping to create more good jobs?------------------------------------------- posted 8:00 AM :: reference link ::
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