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comment by ButterflyEffect
ButterflyEffect  ·  2892 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Amazon Go

...I'd be willing to head up to Seattle and test this out for Hubski...





mk  ·  2892 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That'd be great.

kleinbl00  ·  2892 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Dude it's 7th and Blanchard. Back before Amazon that was like Jones Soda Co and Westlake Electric Supply and light manufacturing. Go hit streetview.

This is a store and a business model that exists solely for those Amazonians /r/Seattle is always bitching about - the ones that stick around just long enough to take all the parking, drive up the rents and crowd out the bars that normal people go to.

I like the checkout counter. It makes me feel like someone gives a fuck if I'm there.

ButterflyEffect  ·  2892 days ago  ·  link  ·  

To be fair, every single person and every single thing about Seattle is what /r/Seattle is always bitching about.

How long is just long enough?

kleinbl00  ·  2892 days ago  ·  link  ·  
snoodog  ·  2892 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Kind of crazy that they dont mind throwing all that money away on constant churn. Its gotta be expensive to hire and fire all these new employees

kleinbl00  ·  2892 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The longer someone works there, the more likely they are to vest, to expect wage increases, to demand autonomy, etc. Amazon has long been the poster child of chew'em up, spit'em out internet chop shops.