Anti-Outsourcing writes:
Have you seen self check out counters lately in your area stores such as Wal Mart,
Target, K-Mart, Home Depot, Grocery stores etc. We have many in Dallas area. Guess
what? The employers are cutting hours of cashiers, give them less than 28 hours,
cut/stop their benefits and health insurance, use customers to do their job for
free, and pocket higher profits. Watch out for those so called "Self check
outs" or "Speedy check out Counters".
Basically, customers who use self check out terminals are eliminating jobs
of fellow Americans.
Bottom Line: DO NOT USE SELF SERVICE CHECK OUT AT ANY STORES. (read more)
Source: Lettes to editor, Dallas Morning News
Don't aid job cuts
To all of you in the self-service lines at the grocery stores: Do you realize
that you personally are responsible for outsourcing/eliminating local jobs?
Although the stores will deny that they are cutting jobs, talk to the employees.
Hours and jobs are being cut by stores using consumers to replace paid employees
to do the work. As an example, workers at one store chain have told me that
the hours of all cashiers have been cut to 28 or fewer hours per week –
and as a consequence, all of those employees have lost their health benefits.
Those jobs, ones that used to be pretty good jobs, have been replaced by a computer
and unpaid customers.
And the stores do not provide a discount to you for doing the work, but pocket
the additional profit.
So before you whine that the government should do something to save jobs in
this country and provide health care for those without insurance, remember that
it is in your power to demand better from U.S. industry. Don't do the work in
place of a store employee; ask for a cashier and know you are helping to save
a job and provide health care for families.