isn't just appliances. I went to lowes to buy some wire off the locked up rolls. Lots of employees walking by, no one stops.
Went to the help desk to have someone paged. . THREE TIMES . . . in NEW ENGLAND
When the guy got there, i showed him where the lock password was on the wall. He unlocked the cage and cut my wire. .
maybe an hour if not longer. . . for 2 pieces of custom cut wire.
and no i can't order it online because I needed to see the wire as there were several types and I am a see/feel guy with certain items.
Most stores were built prior to the success of on line mail order. now, the stores turnover has fallen and the store hours versus shopper volume is very skewed towards weekends. . . store profitability is lower, so employee quality is down.
On that particular trip, the woman ahead of me tried to purchase an item heavily discounted on a cardboard pop up display case near the check out counter. When scanning the product in, the scanner said "Discontinued Item / not for sale"
The scanner clerk called the manager, and he said you can't buy it. The woman started the logical argument "Don't have an item on sale next to the check out counter which you can't buy!" The manager argued back that "Its perfectly fine to do that!"
The economics of the past is having a hard time, and very few understand this point:
technology is deflationary, technology replaces humans, when trying to be profitable competing against technology, the logical place to cut is humans. The effects are starting to be obvious now, as the pandemic increased the speed of transition. . . where business constantly tries to stay profitable.
The downstream effect in government services, which is in a set it and forget it labor service market, postal deliveries are sourced to the cheapest, etc, and the quality also has declined on quality. .
Businesses complain about available employees, and as a business professor researched and proved: they can't find the employees at the wages they want to pay. The wages they want to pay is competing against technology in other sales channel. .
and you wonder why Social Security is running out?? its not about the payout, its about the source payments falling fast due to fewer high paying jobs after being replaced by technology.
be careful what you ask for!
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