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McDonald’s orders 7,000 kiosks to replace cashiers

 

McDonald’s recently added 64,000 people to its payroll in the United States, but job prospects in Europe for those so inclined to work in the fast food industry are looking pretty grim right about now. That’s because the fast food giant is poised to add touchscreen kiosks in more than 7,000 of its restaurants in Europe in effort to replace actual, human cashiers.

McDonald’s Europe President Easterbrook told the Financial Times (subscription required), via The Sydney Morning Herald, that the touchscreen kiosks should help speed up customer transactions up to three or four seconds. The European eateries currently serve about 2 million people per day; McDonald’s hopes it will get even more people to flock in through their doors.

Electronic menus that replace physical beings is nothing new. Microsoft has been pushing its touchscreen computer, the Surface, which has mostly been a big hit at Vegas casinos, hotels, and clubs — where users can order from the table, play around with the image onscreen, and… “flirt” with people at other tables. For the last couple of years, there have been touchscreen kiosks stationed at at least seven McDonald’s restaurants in Australia. McDonald’s says they have no interest in replacing cashiers with kiosks in Australia, however, or anywhere else for that matter.

Besides monetary incentive, and not to mention that the kiosks will also be getting rid of cash transactions since they only accept credit or debit cards, the kiosks are also a way to gather statistical information about people’s eating habits, said Easterbrook. The company could potentially track every last thing you order (or perhaps offer you a free Big Mac with every ten that you purchase?).

“Ordering food has not changed for 30 or 40 years,” Easterbrook said, reasoning the addition of touchscreen kiosks.

Details regarding the cost of the technology or when it will be rolled out were not disclosed.

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The Struggles Only People Working In Retail Understand

In theory, working in retail is great! From big discounts to being among cute clothes all the time, what else could be better, right? Wrong! The retail-worker struggle is SO incredibly real…

1. You find yourself folding tables even when you’re off the clock. And when you’re in someone else’s store!

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2. Trying to take a day off on a black-out date is your worst nightmare. It’d prob be easier to break into the White House.

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3. And speaking of worst nightmares, Black Friday still haunts your dreams. So. Many. People, So. Much. Mess.

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4. You’re used to customers expecting you to have way more power than you do. You don’t like how the jeans fit? Oh, let me go make a few phone calls!

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5. Registers only go down when there’s a huge sale, a line out the door and only two of you in the store. Oh, life…

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6. You’ve chanted “the customer is always right” in order to keep your cool. WAY easier said than done.

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7. You never plan on having any kind of social life from Thanksgiving through New Years. ‘Cause chances are you’ll be in your store more than your house.

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8. When your friends complain of being tired, you just chuckle to yourself. You don’t know what tired is until you’ve worked an open-close shift.

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9. The feeling you get after you watch someone destroy a newly re-folded table is haunting. “But…I worked so hard on that…”

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10. When you see ‘inventory’ next to your name in the schedule…

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11. You pray that no one asks you to check in the back for something. It’s like climbing Mount Everest back there!

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12. Your good mood has gone away in two seconds flat. Especially when a customer utters the phrase, “can I see a manager?”

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13. Explaining to your family that you’re going to be late to a holiday meal is tough. In retail, there are no holidays!

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14. Even when you see someone destroying a pile of clothes, they ALWAYS refuse to accept help. PLEASE LET SOMEONE HELP YOU FIND YOUR SIZE!!

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15. No matter what, there’s ALWAYS an influx of customers 15 minutes before you close. Even if it’s the slowest day in history, this never fails.

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16. You’ve underestimated how dirty humans really are. Nightly clean ups are mind-opening experiences.

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17. Mannequin injuries are no joke. Do you know how hard it is to dress those things?! They’re HEAVY!!

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18. The art of hiding your cell phone on the floor is an art you’ve mastered. Psh, as if you could stop me from texting…

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19. You’ve heard the store’s playlist so many times, you know the exact order the songs play in. And it takes weeks for them to get out of your head.

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20. On-calls are possibly the worst inventions ever. This is 100 percent fact.

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25 things Cashiers hate….

As a cashier for a small grocery store….these are just a few of my pet peeves. They are all things I’m sure you’ve seen cashiers frown or rant over. Please share and elighten others on how to respect hardworking cashiers!

1. People putting their full cart of items up on the belt getting rung out only to realize they’ve forgotten their wallet or checkbook. As a courtesy to the customers and to the cashier, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE look for your wallet BEFORE you leave home or get out of your car at the store!

2. Who even still WRITES checks?! It’s called cash or your debit/credit card that’s LINKED to your checking account! It’s 2014 people! Get with technology. Besides, most stores run your check electronically or will print it for you now so PLEASE! You don’t have to fill the whole thing out! Just sign it!

3. The one thing that irritates cashiers the most are the people who come up to the register and start yakking away on their cell phones or to someone they know while the cashier is ringing up their purchase. Please be courteous and get off your goddamn cell phone. Tell the person you’ll call them back or talk to them another time. It’s rude and impolite, especially when the cashier is trying to make friendly conversation with you!

4. Another thing that irritates me are old people that take their sweet ass time in line. They will give you their life story, while counting all of their items in their cart, while slowly proceeding to place their items on the belt, and also take FOREVER to count their money!

5. Okay so I will admit I have food stamps. But what irritates me are those that I’m pretty sure really don’t need them and are the ones who keep several large bills in their wallets, and/or don’t keep track of their balance on their EBT card. They buy buy buy and then get to the register and ask you to check their balance. Then they slow down the line by cutting off at a certain amount and the rest of the groceries have to go back on the shelf.

6. Registers that never want to cooperate with cashiers. Let’s leave it at that.

7. People who bring in loose change to use towards a purchase. PLEASE PEOPLE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD ROLL YOUR CHANGE OR USE A COINSTAR MACHINE OR TAKE IT TO THE BANK! I don’t want to count out twenty dollars worth of quarters!!!

8. Stock boys who don’t do their job and then you have to do double duty…

9. Parents who treat their kids like crap in the store. Seriously, if I see one more parents hit their kid…how would you feel if someone berated and degraded you?

10. People who expect you to bag your groceries for them when you work at a Bag-It-Yourself store. Don’t put the bags or boxes in the cart and expect me to fill them. Also, DONT stand there and bag or box your shit while I’m ringing you out. That’s what the tables are for.

11.People asking for directions, the date, or the time. Like I seriously have the time myself to tell you this?

12. People paying for a purchase below 20.00 with a fifty or hundred dollar bill when they clearly have the right amount of money in their wallet. Do I look like an ATM to you when I have little to nothing in my drawer? break your large bills elsewhere! preferably the bank!

13. Those annoying plastic bags for produce and meat. People tie huge knots in them and you cant scan the meat or count produce items individually.

14. People that leave their crap behind. Double check before you leave…i dont want to run after you Ninja-style to hand you something you forgot.

15. People that leave their shopping carts in the middle of the parking lot instead of properly placing them in the cart corral! Lazy and dangerous!

16. How stupid are to not notice that the box, bag, or container is leaking all over your stuff? Have you no decency?

17. When someone just had to go and mess up your stocking rotation. Take from the top box, NOT THE MIDDLE OR BOTTOM ONE. Old before new people.

18. I’m not your maid. Don’t ask me to throw shit away for you at the register. Do that with the garbage can that is sitting five feet away.

19. People who place their money on the register belt or little shelf instead placing it into the cashier’s waiting and open hand. It’s hard to pick change up off that shit!

20. If you change your mind about something, PUT IT BACK WHERE IT BELONGS. Lazy and stupid. If it’s a cold item, PUT IT BACK IN THE COLD SECTION.

21. I just hate stupid people in general. Like drunk and/or high people with the munchies.

22. People who buy in bulk and put everything on the belt instead of handing one of the items and telling you how many you have. It’s called a quantity button for a reason people!

23. Do not make jokes about having just printed off your fifty dollar bill that morning when we hold it up to the light or mark it with the marker. It’s not funny, we’ve heard it a hundred times, and if I’m pissed enough I can technically decline your bill since you’ve admitted to forgery.

24. When I’m looking for the produce code for a fruit or vegetable on my paper, don’t tell me “oh it’s a peach, or, they’re 99 cents a pound”. I know which goddamn fruit it is and/or how much they are, not only is that condescending but profoundly unhelpful.

25. When “trying to get rid of your change”, do not hold out a handful and tell the cashier to pick through it to find what they need. I feel like I shouldn’t have to explain how impolite this is, and you’re wasting everyone’s time.

That’s all I have to rant about for now! But believe you me, if you reblog this, you will open everyone’s eyes and maybe us hardworking cashiers will earn a little respect!

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