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My impression is they are eliminating greeeters. Ie, Amazon doesn't pay for greeters, people don't seem to mind if they are not greated when going to amazon or

My impression is they are eliminating greeeters. Ie, Amazon doesn't pay for greeters, people don't seem to mind if they are not greated when going to amazon or other stores, so to compete with these highly automated competitors they are reducing headcount where they can. The positions available to greaters, called hosts, have to handle more tasks (presumably to save them money on things like janitorial services etc). So I'm not sure that this isn't somewhat explainable by reasons other than trying to get rid of disabled greeters. And the hosts may reduce costs in other areas (janitorial, restocking? etc).

jrs235 8y ago
Except my understanding is that the greeters at Walmart aren't there greet but to deter fraud and theft. They scan and place stickers on items being brought back into the store to be returned to prevent people from pulling items of the shelf and "returning" them with a found or previous receipt. They also periodically check receipts deterring folks just walking out with unpaid items, particularly those that go through the self checkouts.