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<DIV><SPAN class=656352915-14042010><FONT size=2 face=Arial>All this talk about
capitalism, WalMart and Taco Bell gave me a hell of an idea, we will make a
cubic buttload of money.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=656352915-14042010><FONT size=2 face=Arial>You know of RFID,
ja? Radio frequency identifier tags, so tiny they can fit inside a
credit card making a scarcely noticeable bulge. My ID badge at
work had one in it, so when I walk past certain secure doorways, they
know it is me and would automatically unlock.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=656352915-14042010><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Imagine a
SuperWalMart or equivalent, a huge warehouse store. You can see
twenty to thirty cash registers, proles lined up with shopping carts, hauling
stuff out of there 24/7, so simple logic and Kirchoff's current law suggests an
equal, opposite army of proles hauling stuff at an equal rate from out back
where the trucks park to stock the shelves. Idea: if all the products have
RFID tags, the checkout process is greatly simplified, for the device would
automatically charge the proles for everything in the cart and everything they
have stuffed into their underclothing, assuming they wore any. This would
greatly simplify the checkout process, and remove one of the biggest objections
to Walmart: it takes a long time to check out with only 30 registers. (Our
local Fry's Electronics has 60 cash registers. Sixty!)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=656352915-14042010><FONT size=2 face=Arial>With all the
products marked with RFID, you could have readers on the shelves, so the shelves
would know when the proles have removed a sufficient number of products to need
restocking, so you could have a computer send a message out back to bring a
certain product. Next, you could have your trucks lined up with Chinese
manufactured goods receive the message from the shelves, then could load up
shopping carts with the appropriate cartons, which the employees would then push
to the appropriate place, but (here's the critically important point) the
shopping cart knows where to go, so the employee need not worry herself with
reading, thinking, knowing where anything is located. Just follow the
instructions of the differential GPS guided shopping cart, go where it says,
stock the shelf, return. We could employ the mentally retarded, or anyone
who can physically move.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=656352915-14042010><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Next, the employee
need not be paid by the hour. The computer knows how many products were
stocked and by whom, since the employees would also be wearing RFID, so they
could work by commission like taxi drivers. No need for expensive
supervisors cracking the whip, no need for employees to show up at a certain
time or leave at a certain time, so completely flexible work
hours.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=656352915-14042010><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Next, Taxifornia is
proposing digging out of their budge hole by legalizing and taxing
marijuana. OK we can work with that. The above job requires so
little mental capacity it could be done while stoned. We could dig up
Cheech and Chong to record the PA messages. Remember that mellow stoner
hep cat? Imagine his voice: Hey like attention shoppers man! There's
like...um... stuff for like sale on aisle 9 maaaan...</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=656352915-14042010><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The pay per item
stocked could constantly fluctuate depending on how many shelf stockers are
present, so you would have something analogous to a standing army. The
local Super Walmart is being built close enough to a residential area that the
stoned employees could walk to and from their work. Each employee could
sign on as an independent contractor, which may help with legal
liability.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=656352915-14042010><FONT size=2 face=Arial>You have seen the
way the customers dress at Walmart, well since this would be the next logical
step beyond that, you know they would let even more of their stuff hang
out. Hell I would shop there just to see that. In compliance with
health department rules we could have the shortest dress code of any
work place: Employees must wear shoes.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=656352915-14042010><FONT size=2 face=Arial>In any grocery, some
food expires on the shelf, but is still perfectly edible well after it's
expiration date. Don't worry about how I know this, just trust me I know
this. You could offer that stuff to the employees, so even if they don't
make a lot of money, they have a job where they are high constantly and are
actually fed and stoned on the job. This gives a whole new meaning to the
phrase Will Work For Food.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=656352915-14042010><FONT size=2 face=Arial>In fact, that would
be a great name for the store, Will Work For Food Inc. You have seen
people hired to carry ad boards? If we open Will Work For Food, we already
have a standing army of people carrying ad boards for us, free. We could
send around a van and round them up: they are standing there with the sign, we
have work and we have food, we even have dope, get on board.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=656352915-14042010><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The RFIDs on
everything could be used to tell the customers where to find the object they
need, without having to ask the stoned employees. Don't you hate asking
where to find stuff? It is sooo too much like asking directions, onerous,
humiliating is this, puts one in a temporarily submissive posture in relation
to the WWFF employee, who probably doesn't know
anyway. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=656352915-14042010><FONT size=2 face=Arial>For those of you who
have ever worked for minimum wage, you know those are some of the highest stress
jobs imaginable: you are making next to nothing under deplorable
conditions, you often have a wild eyed boss screaming at everyone to hustle
their asses before she goes broke, etc. This would actually be likely a
subminimum wage job for most of those doing it, but they appear to be having a
fine time, and besides, theoretically a sober highly motivated
person could exceed minimum. And it would likely be a fun job in
its own way, temporary for most, but one of those which would offer fond
memories of a misspent youth down at WWFF.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=656352915-14042010><FONT size=2 face=Arial>It would appeal to
people across the political spectrum: Walmart haters would know that this would
directly undercut the object of their wrath. It has a lot of "stick
it to the man" in it, since the Searses and Macyes would be crushed in the
stampede right past their businesses. The democrats could set up a table
out front to register voters in stunning hordes. The libertarians would
like it because there are so few rules. The hard core
capitalists would admire the fact that it is another step toward the most
efficient means of distributing manufactured goods, and would like the idea of
helping the hungry, poor and naked while making a buttload of money and
creating a free gawkfest for superannuated gentlemen.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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