{"id":14730,"date":"2025-12-09T10:54:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T17:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=14730"},"modified":"2025-12-09T10:55:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T17:55:40","slug":"why-walmart-is-replacing-its-own-workforce-with-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2025\/12\/09\/why-walmart-is-replacing-its-own-workforce-with-robots\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Walmart is Replacing Its Own Workforce with Robots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It appears impressive as you watch the video, but pay close attention to the fact that when considering wages, the equipment becomes affordable over many years as it&#8217;s a significant investment. And smaller businesses won&#8217;t be able to afford this type of automation. And these megacorps leave a lot to be desired, as you have to remember that they have a lot of third party sellers on their online platforms (Amazon is mostly third party sellers). Taking Amazon for instance, we don&#8217;t really purchase from them that often having long ended Prime membership, and I find them to be going the way of Ebay in their prices and what they carry not being as good as it once was. Usually, what I buy there is from the manufacturer&#8217;s store within Amazon, and it comes down to Amazon increasing their fees on sellers. So for some products we&#8217;ve taken to buying them direct from smaller sellers or the manufacturer, bypassing Amazon entirely as the free shipping isn&#8217;t really as valuable as it once was, as it&#8217;s really baked into the product&#8217;s price. So as the large megacorps continue to raise fees on sellers to maintain their profitability, I suspect we&#8217;ll see a shift back to sellers running their own warehousing and shipping, eventually refocusing on their own websites where they&#8217;re not being squeezed so aggressively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why Walmart is Replacing Its Own Workforce with Robots\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zetDheH_qfM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears impressive as you watch the video, but pay close attention to the fact that when considering wages, the equipment becomes affordable over many years as it&#8217;s a significant investment. And smaller businesses won&#8217;t be able to afford this type of automation. And these megacorps leave a lot to be desired, as you have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14730"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14732,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14730\/revisions\/14732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}