Monday, August 11, 2014

Cashiers Replaced By Machines at McDonalds (MCD)

This is a test, this is only a test.
If this had been an actual robot uprising against minimum wage workers you would have been instructed where to apply for unemployment compensation.
From Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis:
Sure. You can make $15 an hour at McDonald's, at least in Seattle. You just have to perform better than this machine.



But if you are not more cost effective than that machine, then not only do you not make $15, you do not have a job at all.

That machine is the not so distant replacement for cashiers demanding more and more pay.

A Reddit comment says the cashiers at this McDonald's were replaced by machines.

Comments indicate the store is the company owned McDonald's Innovation Center at 1253 N Schmidt Rd, Romeoville, IL 60446, United States.

Any readers care to check that out?

Math, Not Counting Benefits

  • For a location open 24 hours: The cost of human cashiers, not counting benefits, $15/hour * 24 hours * 365 days/year = $131,400...
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