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Originally Posted by Redjake
The self-checkout doing away with jobs is not valid, as the companies required to create and maintain self-checkout systems created tons of jobs. One company in my college's town was started by an entrepreneur doing POS self-checkout systems (Point Of Sale) and the company is now massive and worth millions.
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This assumes that for every cashier job eliminated, one POS self-checkout system job is created. I'm not so sure this would ultimately be the case.
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Last edited by Baraka_Guru; 06-30-2009 at 10:40 AM..
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