"if that means a few checkout operators lose their jobs then its unfortunate but its also progress".
Few? How many towns and cities in Australia, with how many supermarkets in each town?
That would be minimum of 50,000 jobs? Machine can't go out and spend "its wages", therefore other retailers suffer, creating more job losses. You have no idea of how things work do you?
With the added stealing, who covers that cost, the machine or the shoppers?
So why do people worry about the jobs of Holden, Toyota, Alcoa and Qantas workers? Just build a machine and call it technology, BUGGEER the workers. YEAH, right!
