Would you rather have 2-3 lines with cashiers or 6+ self checkouts?
I would say I would get out of the store way faster doing self checkout. I call that efficient.
Places like Sam's Club with their Scan and Go checkout. I can scan all my groceries with my phone as I put them into my cart. Then I just walk under an arch with cameras that scans what barcodes it can. Then I walk out the door. I don't even have to wait in line or go to a self checkout.
Cashiers aren't efficient
If the company had to pay cashiers, then the prices of goods are just going to go up. Corporate execs and board members want the money.
So, do you let the Corporate execs and board members save money and hope not to raise prices (maybe lower them), or make them pay a cashier so they are going to raise prices.
Even though I hate the "please place the item in the bag!" "Unscaned item in bagging area!". Self checkouts are efficient, and the future.
Man with a size 8 shoe could probably still wear a "Large" sock and be fine.
~75% of women wear a size 7-9
Women with 6 or 6.5 should still be able to wear a 7-9 sized sock.
Families have genetically similar feet
I know from my experience, my father, my brother, and I all wear the same size. We all had different preferences and our own socks, but I could have easily worn their socks.
A board game with paper and plastic pieces can range from 12-45 dollars
People will go spend $20 at the movies for 1 night
Hell I'll pay 100 if it's a good game
I have 1200 hours in Overwatch. $60 (free now). I have paid 5 cents per hour to play it. I am completely happy with my purchase even though it's free now.
If the game isn't worth it, don't get it. But to complain about it is ridiculous.
Some N64 games were $50-$60 dollars back in the 90's
So you can either pay in cash (or debit card) and get nothing. Or you can use a credit card and get 1-5% cash back
I need to spend $300 on groceries this month. If i had a credit card that did 5% on grocery purchases (one reason for multiple cards), then I'd have an extra 15 dollars this month. 180 dollars a year just because I used a credit card for a purchase I had to make.
I could have used my debit card, and the funds could be pulled directly from my checking account. Or the funds will be pulled directly from my checking account at the end of the month when I need to pay off my balance.
If I had an emergency $300 dollar expense in the middle of the month, I would have access to $300. If i purchased the groceries with the $300 in my checking account, I'd have no funds to hold over for 2 weeks. Longer if needed, a credit card can hold a balance for a price.
There really isn't a reason why you shouldn't use a credit card in America, other than poor spending habits
Credit cards can even give you perks like free cell phone accident protection when paying your wireless bill
Have multiple cards with multiple limits = higher available debt
The higher your available debt, the less percent you use out of it
Debt utilization is a big part of a credit score. And just getting that down having multiple high limit cards is a strategy.
Like if I spend 5k a month. One card with a 10k limit I am using 50% of my available credit. If i had 3 cards with 15k limits, I'd be using ~10%. Using 10%>50%
Opening up cards hurts your credit score in the short term but helps in the long run. You shouldn't close a card unless you have to because having it is going to help your score for reasons mentioned above.
You can not simply "shift" billions of dollars from one currency to another.
As much as the rich people with billions want to get rid of the USD, the people willing to give GBP or Euro for USD don't have to accept. Why would they want to be holding on to the USD if the others don't?
They could be slowly doing it right now, but if the shit hits the fan, the exchange rate would jump.
My favorite part of decimeters is 1 inch is 1/4 decimeters. 3 decimeters is foot.
So if it's like 8 inches. I can just say 2 decimeters
From there you can say 20 centimeters or .2 meters
If something is 12ft it's 36 decimeters or 3.6 meters
There's no easy way to turn 8 inches into centimeters other than knowing that 1 inch is about 2.5 centimeters or just estimating in centimeters to begin with.
You could say 8 inches is 2/3 of a foot. 3ft to a meter. So 1 ft is .30 meters. Then it's 2/3 of a foot, so .30×2/3=.2.
Decimeters are the missing link for Americans to convert
Yards to meters is 1
Feet to meters is 3
Inches to decimeters is 4
Things like a 36 inch doorway, 3 feet, would be 9 decimeters or .9 meters
Common measurements of inches:
12 - 4 Decimeters
18 - 4.5 Decimeters
24 - 8 Decimeters
30 - 9.5 Decimeters
What they would use otherwise would be
.4 meters
.45 meters
.8 meters
.95 meters
Saying the standard doorway is 9 Decimeters is way better than saying .9 meters.
If you rounded to 1 meter. You're adding 3 1/3 inches. Which is a 10% increase.
Walmart spent millions on rfid trying to do this. Howevera cart full of razor blades would always not read something so they gave up.
My point was Walmart, Sam's parent company, spent millions and carried it out in their other store. I don't know if it's rfid, but I'm sure their research in it overlapped with the way they implemented it in Sam's.
There is no guarantee to stop even a small caliber
Small caliber at high velocity would go straight through
You could say a thick metal wall is small caliber bullet proof because no matter what velocity, the small chunk of metal is never passing through a few decimeters of solid metal.
Small caliber piercing round at high velocity, straight through the stainless steel door.
Slap some plastic on that bad boy
You'd really trust that as a bullet shield?
Normal 9mm across the street. Probably going through
My Sam's Club has two big arch camera things that scan your items as you walk past. Person at door that normally scans ~3 items and receipt, just waves and says "You're good to go!". Been like this for months.
Scan and go is amazing.
The arch is kind of cool but they just had to scan ~3 things manually before so it's not that game changing. But nice.
Would you rather have 2-3 lines with cashiers or 6+ self checkouts?
I would say I would get out of the store way faster doing self checkout. I call that efficient.
Places like Sam's Club with their Scan and Go checkout. I can scan all my groceries with my phone as I put them into my cart. Then I just walk under an arch with cameras that scans what barcodes it can. Then I walk out the door. I don't even have to wait in line or go to a self checkout.
Cashiers aren't efficient
If the company had to pay cashiers, then the prices of goods are just going to go up. Corporate execs and board members want the money.
So, do you let the Corporate execs and board members save money and hope not to raise prices (maybe lower them), or make them pay a cashier so they are going to raise prices.
Even though I hate the "please place the item in the bag!" "Unscaned item in bagging area!". Self checkouts are efficient, and the future.