Walmart Is Developing A Self-Driving Shopping Cart

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Technology is making us fatter and lazier and here's the proof. Unless you are disabled, there is absolutely no need for this. Hell, sometimes the only exercise I get in a day is pushing the cart at the supermarket. When I want to get a bit of extra cardio in, I just return my cart to one of those cart corral thingies instead of leaving it out in the middle of the parking lot. :D

Walmart is now working on a self-driving shopping cart that customers would be able to hail like an Uber – possible through a smartphone app. The retailer filed a patent for a cart that has a motor and video cameras. The best part? It would also be able to return itself from customers’ cars to the store.
 
FFS, start paying your employees above poverty level and stop wasting time and money on this crap. A big part of Wal-Mart's problem is their image and culture. Start there.
 
This has been done in hospital's for 2+ Decades. I don't see a patent here.
 
niconx said:
Every single cart in my Walmart is broken, this will never work.
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You too, huh? I have to use one of the electric carts, and I've been complaining to management about their condition for 3 years now.
 
Good, you know how hard it is to push a cart when you have to carry your fat ass around in a mobility scooter? And those attached baskets can't hold nearly enough oreos and sodas, so it's about time....
 
Um...self driving cart? Better keep them wheels fixed. Shit will be going in circles.
 
What a waste of time and effort. Instead, why don't they make checking out faster/more efficient. The barcode system needs to be replaced.
 
PCMusicGuy said:
What a waste of time and effort. Instead, why don't they make checking out faster/more efficient. The barcode system needs to be replaced.
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Just because you lack the skills to scan barcodes like a boss doesn't mean it is a bad system.

What do you propose besides a barcode system that will not require an increase in prices? Printing a series of black lines is pretty much the cheapest way to do it.
 
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So I can link my shopping list from my phone to the shopping cart and it plans the most efficient route including the fastest checkout lane? Why not make it an extra smart shopping cart and auto scan items when they are placed in the cart so I just swipe my card on the way out...

That would never happen. Walmart purposely moves items around the stores to make you spend more time browsing with the chance you might buy something else that you didn't intend to. This would also work against other sales tactics. They will probably just add a nice big screen for ads.
 
cyclone3d said:
Just because you lack the skills to scan barcodes like a boss doesn't mean it is a bad system.

What do you propose besides a barcode system that will not require an increase in prices? Printing a series of black lines is pretty much the cheapest way to do it.
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Implants in our brains that read RFID on the shelf when you remove and item to place in your self driving cart. Done. Safe and easy.
 
I don't really see the point. People this lazy would just order their stuff online.
 
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jevans64 said:
I bet within a few minutes of spotting one of these carts, someone on this forum will hack it to smash into as many car doors as possible. ;)

How many of these will we see turned over in a ditch in a ghetto?
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My local Wal-Mart IS a ghetto.
 
haste. said:
Implants in our brains that read RFID on the shelf when you remove and item to place in your self driving cart. Done. Safe and easy.
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Heh, I can see it now. You have to put your head in about a 1 inch proximity to the RFID tag on the shelf to get a reading.

And then what happens when the items on the shelf are not in the correct place?

Products in stores generally have a really bad record of having stuff on the shelves in the proper place.

What happens when you decide to put an item back?

The tag always needs to be on the item itself. Too many ways to screw up if it isn't.
 
Gweenz said:
FFS, start paying your employees above poverty level and stop wasting time and money on this crap. A big part of Wal-Mart's problem is their image and culture. Start there.
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Walmart pays WAAAAY too much as it is. Compare what Walmart cashiers and your local mom and pop shop cashiers make in your area. In Texas at least, its just over double.

The problem is that people expect that a job like a shelf stocker or cashier, which is meant to be an entry level job for young people, is supposed to be enough to raise a family of five on, which is retarded.
 
phatbx133 said:
Camera peek at some women with under skirts or camel toe :p
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Have you seen the people who frequent Wal-Mart?:vomit:

If you did happen to actually come across one person wearing a skirt and decided to look up it, you would likely find blocks of stolen velveeta cheese between their thighs... or an infection that looked similar to velveeta cheese.
 
Where I live (Germany) they implemented a really easy solution for the carts left all over the parking lot problem at the supermarket. A deposit is required in order to use a cart and you have to return it to get your money back. Each cart has a coin slot installed (usually accepts one Euro). This mechanism requires a key which is connected to the next cart via a chain to be inserted to get your money back. Voila, no cart collector needed.
 
CaptNumbNutz said:
Have you seen the people who frequent Wal-Mart?

If you did happen to actually come across one person wearing a skirt and decided to look up it, you would likely find blocks of stolen velveeta cheese between their thighs... or an infection that looked similar to velveeta cheese.
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And you know this how? :snaphappy:
 
anr11 said:
Where I live (Germany) they implemented a really easy solution for the carts left all over the parking lot problem at the supermarket. A deposit is required in order to use a cart and you have to return it to get your money back. Each cart has a coin slot installed (usually accepts one Euro). This mechanism requires a key which is connected to the next cart via a chain to be inserted to get your money back. Voila, no cart collector needed.
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Here in the States, Aldi does this as well.

BEST IDEA EVAR!
 
Ducman69 said:
Walmart pays WAAAAY too much as it is. Compare what Walmart cashiers and your local mom and pop shop cashiers make in your area. In Texas at least, its just over double.

The problem is that people expect that a job like a shelf stocker or cashier, which is meant to be an entry level job for young people, is supposed to be enough to raise a family of five on, which is retarded.
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Yeah but the problem is that is the ceiling for some people. So if that is what they are going to do for their entire lives, you either pay them a living wage or they go on welfare. One way or another, someone pays. It should be the employer that is profiting in the billions that pays, not the U.S. taxpayer.
 
Second to driving a real car, there are far too many oblivious people not able to push around a shopping cart. You know ... The people who leave their cart in the middle of the aisle while they look at stuff on the shelf.
 
Gweenz said:
Yeah but the problem is that is the ceiling for some people. So if that is what they are going to do for their entire lives, you either pay them a living wage or they go on welfare. One way or another, someone pays. It should be the employer that is profiting in the billions that pays, not the U.S. taxpayer.
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Their ceiling would be much higher if they chose to buy several packs of condoms instead of that one box of cigarettes. :p
 
Gweenz said:
Yeah but the problem is that is the ceiling for some people. So if that is what they are going to do for their entire lives, you either pay them a living wage or they go on welfare. One way or another, someone pays. It should be the employer that is profiting in the billions that pays, not the U.S. taxpayer.
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Because businesses are the ones that pay the taxes, right?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. They just raise the price to include what they have to pay in taxes.

And pretty much everyone working at Walmart, except maybe the managers are going to qualify for some level of "welfare" anyway.

Around here, unless they have changed it, you can get subsidized housing if you make less than $100k per year.

The amount of government sanctioned fraud is appalling and some common sense laws/rules need to be put into place to keep it from happening again.

Then again, the "government" doesn't have to obey the laws it puts in place for the rest of us.
 
Ducman69 said:
Walmart pays WAAAAY too much as it is. Compare what Walmart cashiers and your local mom and pop shop cashiers make in your area. In Texas at least, its just over double.

The problem is that people expect that a job like a shelf stocker or cashier, which is meant to be an entry level job for young people, is supposed to be enough to raise a family of five on, which is retarded.
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What the actual fuck are you talking about? When I worked for Walmart stockers and cashiers started at minimum wage with 50 cent annual raises and they had pay caps. Nobody paid hourly was making 'enough to raise a family of 5 on.'

As I understand it they start at $9 now, 10 after an entry probation period.

Why pull stuff like that out of your ass just to degrade people who do real physical work for a living? If you honestly think they don't deserve it then go work there for a week and try it yourself.
 
Well, if this would keep people from parking their damn cart in THE MIDDLE OF THE DAMN ISLE and block the rest of the way with their fat ass!!!!...... Then I'm all for it.
 
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