Comment by ASalazarMX

8 hours ago

2040 at Wal-Mart:

- Customer: Excuse me, I'm looking for the Aunt Jemima maple syrup. Can you point me in the right direction?

- Employee: y u ask like chatbot

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ASalazarMX

Wow a human employee in walmart in 2040, very optimistic take.

Wal–Mart?

BTW in their company chat they call it a squiggly even though it's flat. That always bugged me.

Edit: I stand corrected. It wasn't flat from 1966 to 1981 and the cheer started in 1975, and included "squiggly" back then - Sam Walton himself said it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walmart#1990%E2%80%932005:_Ret...

Edit 2: Both squiggly and the introduction of the cheer appear in the Walmart timeline: https://corporate.walmart.com/about/history

There will be no such thing as an "Walmart Employee" in 2040.

There is a decent chance the term "Employee" as a whole will be eradicated sometime in the next 10 years.

Is the customer actually a chat bot though? That brand is renamed, but maybe after the training cutoff date.