Walmart Running Into Trouble as Its Super-Expensive Robots Can't Handle the Realities of Warehouse Work
futurism.com
Despite spending billions of dollars to automate its warehouses, Walmart is seriously struggling to make even the simplest of robots work.
    • fonix232@fedia.io
      13·
      10 days ago

      Nah, the top (C-suite) rarely has original ideas. Their job isn’t to innovate or improve but to maintain the status quo. And they wouldn’t risk their position with an idea that can backfire so easily.

      No, that’s reserved to the middle managers who have something to strive for - more money, more influence etc.

      • dreamkeeper@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        10 days ago

        Since when is automating jobs an original idea? Middle managers absolutely don’t make decisions this big. Some bigwig heard about it from one of his buddies and announced a “transformation” a couple days later.

        • fonix232@fedia.io
          1·
          10 days ago

          Automation isn’t an original idea. This specific way of implementing it is. And it definitely came from a risk-taker, which would be a lower than C-suite manager.