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Re: The changed future after CV-19
« Reply #105 on: April 22, 2020, 02:09:31 PM »
...and ROBOTS, you forgot the robots!!

“When we get on the other side of the pandemic, it’s going to be a buyers’ market again for labor,” said Elise Gould at the Economic Policy Institute. “People will just be scrambling to get a job, any job.”


‘Scary Time’ for American Middle Class as Office Jobs Disappear - Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-22/-scary-time-for-american-middle-class-as-office-jobs-disappear

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Re: The changed future after CV-19
« Reply #106 on: April 22, 2020, 06:00:56 PM »
He knows how to make money with his businesses but also knows how to take care of others while doing it.

In one section he was ranting about how companies that have employees who collect government assistance are effectively taxpayer-subsidized companies engaging in a sort of socialism for the rich.

But he went the next step - he had all his companies do an audit to find out whether he had any employees on public assistance. To his chagrin, he found out they did have a small handful of such employees, usually due to some extenuating circumstance such as medical bills. They then set about developing programs to get those employees off public assistance and whole again.

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Re: The changed future after CV-19
« Reply #107 on: April 24, 2020, 06:04:23 PM »
"If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions"

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Re: The changed future after CV-19
« Reply #108 on: April 28, 2020, 01:28:56 PM »

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Re: The changed future after CV-19
« Reply #109 on: April 28, 2020, 02:40:20 PM »
Instacart is going to catch on as a service and stay popular.  That's my prediction after trying it for Aldi shopping yesterday.  2 hrs later my groceries were delivered.  All the ease of Amazon but with the ability to get frozen foods and quick delivery. 

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Re: The changed future after CV-19
« Reply #110 on: April 28, 2020, 07:40:28 PM »
>Instacart

What'd it cost you, including tip? 

IIRC, they recently put out a hiring call for 200k+ shoppers.

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Re: The changed future after CV-19
« Reply #113 on: April 29, 2020, 10:59:54 AM »
>Instacart

What'd it cost you, including tip? 

IIRC, they recently put out a hiring call for 200k+ shoppers.

3.99 Delivery Fee
5.10 Tip
2.55 Service Fee

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Re: The changed future after CV-19
« Reply #114 on: April 29, 2020, 11:25:33 AM »
For more frozen foods I placed an order via

https://www.schwans.com/

In my area Schwan's has their own fleet of delivery trucks to deliver to your door sort of like the milkman did in the old days.  But they will also ship via UPS.

I thought I'd try them since they have a very good reputation around here.  A lot of working folks with long commutes and little time to shop use them.  Ordering was easy.

I'm pretty sure their delivery business is way up since the lockdown.  I suspect Schwan's parent company is geared mainly towards the B2B trade but they decided to hit the B2C market outside the  normal store channels via home delivery which must be successful because they were already operating around here 15 years ago when I moved in and are still going strong.

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Re: The changed future after CV-19
« Reply #115 on: April 30, 2020, 11:01:38 PM »
Faster Drug Development Processes Likely to Outlive COVID-19 | BioSpace
https://www.biospace.com/article/faster-drug-development-processes-likely-to-outlive-covid-19-/

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Re: The changed future after CV-19
« Reply #116 on: May 03, 2020, 01:48:21 AM »
>Paper tiger

Anger directed by misinformation has us eating our own when the house is on fire.  Meanwhile our Dear Leader is wasting time yelling at the person who's house caught on fire first to deflect that we had months to clear the brush around our own property.  The United State's response to Corvid-19 is an international disgrace.  My gut is telling me that we're going to end up with a wrecked economy and a fatality number higher than anyone would believe today.

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Re: The changed future after CV-19
« Reply #117 on: May 03, 2020, 08:58:19 AM »
I am told this might be worth looking out for:

CNN this evening at 22.00 ET - they are doing a chronological expose on what dementia trump has stated throughout this crisis using video clips of what he said and on what date.

for a laugh.  Should I put it in one of the humour threads? :)
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Re: The changed future after CV-19
« Reply #118 on: May 03, 2020, 08:14:20 PM »
Sure.

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Re: The changed future after CV-19
« Reply #119 on: May 21, 2020, 07:36:37 PM »
No doubt about it, humans are a PITA to deal with as employees, so we're going to eliminate them.  We want them to keep buying, though.

Gap rushes in more robots to warehouses to solve virus disruption
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-gap-automation-foc/gap-rushes-in-more-robots-to-warehouses-to-solve-virus-disruption-idUSKBN22X14Y