{"id":23940,"date":"2018-12-04T08:49:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T14:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=23940"},"modified":"2018-12-04T08:49:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T14:49:20","slug":"coming-sooner-to-missouri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/04\/coming-sooner-to-missouri\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming Sooner to Missouri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Missouri passed Proposition B which will raise Missouri&#8217;s minimum wage to $15 an hour (see also <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/02\/wont-someone-think-of-the-soulless-automatons\/\" target=\"_new\">Won&#8217;t Someone Think Of The Soulless Automatons?<\/a>), we can look forward to our retail establishments being early adopters of technology like this: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-12-03\/robot-janitors-are-coming-to-mop-floors-at-a-walmart-near-you\" target=\"_new\">Robot Janitors Are Coming to Mop Floors at a Walmart Near You<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Robots are coming to a Walmart Inc. near you, and not just as a gimmick.<\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s largest retailer is rolling out 360 autonomous floor-scrubbing robots in some of its stores in the U.S. by the end of the January, it said in a joint statement with Brain Corp., which makes the machines. The autonomous janitors can clean floors on their own even when customers are around, according to the San Diego-based startup.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Who could have guessed it?  I mean, aside from someone with any proper sense of economics?  Which is in very, very short supply amongst people under, what, forty in this country?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Missouri passed Proposition B which will raise Missouri&#8217;s minimum wage to $15 an hour (see also Won&#8217;t Someone Think Of The Soulless Automatons?), we can look forward to our retail establishments being early adopters of technology like this: Robot Janitors Are Coming to Mop Floors at a Walmart Near You: Robots are coming to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23941,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23940\/revisions\/23941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}