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That's an interesting headline! What is this all about? Well, our friends at CNN believe that we should just get straight to the point and skip the below part altogether! Here is a photo I took of the checkout area, when I went to the supermarket a couple of days ago.

Not only is cash filthy and diseased, but so are plastic cards. Then why not just eliminate cards from existence too? Well, that's definitely on the books as well, once everything is digitised and handed over to our Bankster friends;) Bank robberies will never be the same!
         

The reality is, that we were always heading towards a digital economy, and it was going to arrive sooner or later. It's not the technology itself that's the problem however, but the leeches who run the entire show with their desire to have total power and control over everything we transact and consume.

Now getting back to that CNN article, and what it's really all about. Let's have a look at a few excerpts from the article, and I will add my own commentary as we go along.

Dozens of grocery store workers have died from the coronavirus, despite masks, temperature checks and capacity restrictions to keep them safe. So far, supermarkets have resisted the most draconian policy: banning customers from coming inside.

Dozens! OMG, the world is on its knees! Let's ban customers from entering stores all around the globe, based on a small sample size that you are quoting without any real evidence to back up that claim.

However, some worker experts, union leaders and small grocery owners believe it has become too dangerous to let customers browse aisles, coming into close range with workers. Grocery stores are still flooded with customers, and experts say it's time for large chains to go "dark" to the public and convert to curbside pickup and home delivery for food and other essential goods.

What are and who are these "worker experts"? Did you run out of anonymous industry experts to quote? Now you're just making up a new form of expert, to suit your angle! They also believe it has become too dangerous. What proof is there of that, apart from your anonymous workers and other "experts" and there beliefs? I also notice that you specified that large chains should go dark to the public. That's quite an interesting point right there!

"Careless customers" are "probably the biggest threat" to workers right now, according to Marc Perrone, president of the United Food and Commercial Workers' union. The union said 85% of its grocery store member workers reported that customers are not practicing social distancing in stores.

LOL...that entire quote is so stupid, that I will not even bother adding any substantial commentary to it. Do I really need to point out the obvious angle here, again?

"Anything that reduces the need for interaction with the public and allows for greater physical distancing will ultimately better protect grocery workers," said John Logan, professor and director of Labor and Employment Studies at San Francisco State University. "Shuttering stores and repurposing them for pickup and delivery only would be a positive step."

Thank you Professor and Government mouthpiece, for entering the fray and reinforcing the same meme into the conversation once again! The professor does however, bring up the next topic up for discussion.
         

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Aha! Now we're getting a lot closer to reality and what this is really all about! This is not really about keeping the "workers safe". As you can see in the picture above, CNN is using Whole Foods as their leading example and shining light of how business should be conducted in this new age of 'danger'.

Who owns Whole Foods? Well, it's only owned by the richest man in the world in Jeff Bezos, and is another link in the chain of his business empire, as you can see from this article from marketwatch.com.

This article from CNN is more about embedding the thought of people not visiting stores in person, and convince everyday consumers to start ordering all of their essential shopping needs online...and of course, who has and will have the overwhelmingly largest market share in that sector? Not only the largest market share, but also the resources and infrastructure to be able to carry this out on a mass scale, in the very near future. Jeff Bezos's empire and other Multinational Corporations, will eventually completely dominate the entire online sector.

In the end, this is actually about reducing costs and the workforce required for the bigger players in the market, by implementing new technologies via automation, which will in turn drive out the remaining competition from small to medium sized businesses.