{"id":33689,"date":"2025-04-20T15:29:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T20:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=33689"},"modified":"2025-04-20T15:29:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T20:29:05","slug":"history-rhyming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/20\/history-rhyming\/","title":{"rendered":"History, Rhyming"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sam\u2019s Club reveals plan to eliminate checkout lanes completely with major change<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Sam\u2019s Club, the Walmart-owned membership warehouse, is rolling out a major change to its grocery payment system and embracing artificial intelligence (AI).<\/p>\n

The retail giant plans to phase out traditional checkouts across its 600 stores and create a friction-free shopping experience which will include customers scanning goods on the go with an app and then having and AI scanner verify the goods as customers leave. The technology would eliminate the need for receipt checks at the door.<\/p>\n

The system, known as \u201cScan & Go,\u201d was initially launched in April 2024 and allows members to use the Sam\u2019s Club mobile app to scan their products.<\/p>\n

The latest announcement adds the AI check, known as \u201cJust Walk\u201d\/\u201dJust Go\u201d exit, to the process and will see the option of traditional checkouts being eliminated.<\/p>\n

The new plans were announced by Chris Nicholas, Sam\u2019s Club president and CEO, who outlined the company\u2019s growth ambitions at its 2025 Investment Community Meeting last week.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is one of the fastest, most scalable transformations happening in retail today,\u201d Nicholas said. \u201cWe\u2019re investing with intention \u2014 in our fleet, our associates and the member experience \u2014 to become the world\u2019s best club retailer.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Making me do more of the work is not improving the member experience.<\/p>\n

You know, gentle reader, I go to the local Sam’s Club once or twice a week. I have almost since we moved to Springfield, and I’ve been a member for, what, 25 years? But I am not going to do this.<\/p>\n

For one, I’m an old curmudgeon now For two, as a longtime remote worker, my interactions with the cashiers at Sam’s Club represent some of the only in-person contacts with people on a regular basis. So I am not going to load the corporate app onto my phone so that I can scan all the goods and to let it try to track me all day long. Just so that the corporation can get a couple extra nickels from me.<\/p>\n

Why do I say that this rhymes? Remember when some gunslingin’ marketin’ genius decided to try to make Walmart more upscale, resulting in almost $2,000,000,000 in lost sales<\/a>?<\/p>\n

I imagine this will go that way, kind of like how Walmart went all-in on self-checkouts and then pulled back.<\/p>\n

But it will be a year or two without Sam’s Club for us. And we’ll see if Costco captures us as it has so many of our friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sam\u2019s Club reveals plan to eliminate checkout lanes completely with major change: Sam\u2019s Club, the Walmart-owned membership warehouse, is rolling out a major change to its grocery payment system and embracing artificial intelligence (AI). The retail giant plans to phase out traditional checkouts across its 600 stores and create a friction-free shopping experience which will […]<\/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-33689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33689","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=33689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33690,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33689\/revisions\/33690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}