The Psychological Operations Behind Automation
The Kroger at 1350 N High Street on the corners of King and High is the most poorly run grocery store I have ever seen, and I remember when it was known as Ghetto Kroger. Even though the majority of the neighborhood has been rebuilt, the bust stop location, and local amenities attract the poor and homeless drug addicts, so there’s always fights and shootings on the street corner despite being close to The Ohio State University’s campus. In fact, the New Albany warehouse shooter was arrested across the street. It’s not a great location for a Kroger trying to implement automation with all the theft. In fact, I have no clue how it can be profitable whatsoever.
I remember when they first remodeled Ghetto Kroger a decade ago, and we hoped the renovation would change the clientele, and it hasn’t. I remember using the self-checkout for the first time in 2014 or 2015 and losing my mind, so I generally used and continue to use cashiers to check out for a multitude of reasons. First of all, I always end up requiring assistance when I check out, so I rather just have a cashier. Besides, I am pro-human labor. It’s not that I’m against machines, AI, and automation, but we still need human labor for multiple reasons. The primary reason is human beings need human interaction, and the secondary reason is people need jobs. We don’t have human interaction like we used to, and it’s detrimental to Americans health. We used to interact with bellmen, bathroom attendants, cashiers, grocery baggers, shoe men, etc. We used be told, “Good morning,” and “God bless you,” and the infinite little ways we altered one another’s moods, so we could snap our fellow Americans out of bad moods.
“Are you okay, sweetie?” And “I’ll pray for your mamma” are words I only hear from Appalachia, which still has this culture, which is why I love Appalachia, but the Democrats’ weaponization of labor laws, zoning laws, etc has exterminated Appalachia’s year-around and seasonal economies. We improve Appalachia’s economy by bringing city money to the mountains, but Democrats have been stealing from the mountains to build cities made from Appalachian wealth. It was economic warfare, and now we have the extremely wealthy using weather modification and direct energy weapons to act like the Democrat mobs, which have been leveling city blocks and confiscating wealth for centuries, hence Hurricane Helene and the Lahaina and Los Angeles fires.
The Ghetto Kroger has half a dozen people who are hoping other people check out, so Kroger is paying for both the people and the machines, so I know that can’t be profitable like with Uber using AI for support and then foreigners for human support who follow the same algorithms as the AI support. It’s literally a waste of time, because my issues seem to always slide through the gaps. It blows my mind how Kroger thinks it’s a good idea to have two security guards and employees helping customers self-checkout instead of cashiers and baggers. I have personally filled a cart, and then saw the self-checkout and left my full cart, because I wasn’t doing the self-checkout. In fact, I have photos of shelves of food left at checkout, because people simply didn’t want to deal with self-checkout.
There is no way their operations can be profitable, and I can guarantee they’re not. Other Kroger’s have a blend of self-checkout and cashiers, but not the Kroger at 1350 N High Street where they check your bags on the way in and out. I squat three blocks away, and I chose to order food online or go to the Giant Eagle or Aldi a mile down 5th Avenue or King Avenues. None of my friends go to that Kroger, and we live blocks from Ghetto Kroger.
So why does Ghetto Kroger run their grocery store Operations the way they do? I don’t know, but I do know there’s a nationwide dehumanization tactic and psychological operations used to condition Americans into serving themselves instead of being served. I would say it started with the banks and ATMs during the 1990’s and now all our bank teller positions are exterminated, but telephone operators and elevator operators were replaced overhaul a century ago. Now, our cashiers at McDonald’s, Wendy’s, and Taco Bell have been replaced by kiosks that makes Big Tech rich and the rest of Americans from rural to urban poor. They call it a convenance, but it’s conveniently exterminating our freedom, and our jobs and replacing it with slavery.
It’s not progression; it’s regression. They are training us like dogs to ring up our own food and bag our own groceries. That’s how fascism works. That’s how socialism works. That’s how communism works. That’s why all the BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street owned companies immediately switched to automation during Covid, because it was all a planned operation, and they are psychologically training us to serve the regime as slaves who are not allowed to be served by human beings.